Climate Care Mission
The Climate Team is one of our newest missions works which concentrates on the climate changes that are affecting our communities. We routinely have projects such as pollinator gardens and looking into ways to help in redirecting our thinking and behaviors to help heal mother earth.
Climate Care Articles
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more articles and statements about the occurrence of climate change, as I’m sure you have also. They have been in magazines, newspapers, on television news, television documentaries, and speakers on television and in person in our area. It seems everyone who is honest with themselves understands that we have…
read moreThe United Church of Christ Earth Summit was convened for the second time in April 2024. The keynote speaker was Bill McKibben, who is well-known as one of the leading writers and speakers on climate change. He wrote his first book on the subject in 1989. He called the damage from carbon fuels the “greatest…
read moreAs I write this on the first day of summer 2024, it’s becoming clear that many things climate-related are increasingly extreme this year. It’s true that individual weather events and seasonal trends are not entirely due to climate change, but the frequency and severity of these events is. A list of some of these things…
read moreThis article is a follow-up to last month, which was about our plastic crisis – how much oil goes into producing millions of tons of plastic per year, and that it persists 500 years in nature. This month our focus is on the harm caused by the production of that plastic from oil. I attended…
read morePlastic first started being created on a global scale in the 1950s. Since then annual plastic production has exploded to an estimated 460 million tons as of 2019. While plastic has many beneficial uses, single-use plastics have become a real environmental threat. All manner of groceries and consumer goods come with plastic wrappings that ultimately…
read moreIf their by-products are treated in digesters to capture the methane gas which is produced. Some of these larger farm operations are collecting manure in large tanks, mixing it in an oxygen-free environment and heating it. Micro-organisms break down the organic material and methane is captured and then burned to produce heat and electricity for…
read moreWind and solar produced more energy in the European Union in May of this year than all fossil fuels combined. Swiss citizens voted “yes” by 59% to a new climate law. It will cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 by equipping all buildings with renewable heating systems, supporting businesses with their plans…
read moreThis summer we are watching on the news, and experiencing ourselves, the smoke from the wildfires in Canada. As Merlin showed us during the service on July 16, the smoke from these wildfires is continually trailing across the US, wherever the winds take it. This smoke is composed of particulate matter, very fine particles as…
read moreFor once, I would love to write a column on climate change with only good news. I would be uplifting for me and for you. My column would say that all countries of the world are dramatically reducing their carbon emissions and on the path to net carbon emissions by January 1, 2050. The countries…
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