Climate Action Team Meets Second Sundays
Sunday, November 10, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in Meadowbrook room 22 (back) Join us for good news and bad news on the Climate Crisis front as well as planning for a UUC event in 2020....
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From the Climate Action Team
Changing for the Welfare of the World “The interdependent and interrelated nature of existence is an argument that few will contest. It is a truth affirmed by the expanding horizons of our understanding of...
King County Climate Action Team Workshop
Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. to noon at the UW Intellectual House, 4249 Whitman Ct NE (on the UW campus) Show up with UUC Climate Action Team members to support meaningful, specific, and comprehensive...
Climate Action Team Meets
Sunday, October 13, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook room 23 (front) Join us for updates on the Seattle Green Deal, community events concerning Climate Change, and plans for Education (seminar) and Direct Action. Bring...
From the Climate Action Team
Let Us Love Back the Birds According to a recent survey by a team of university researchers, government agencies, and non-profit organizations the bird population has dropped by 2.9 billion in the last 50...
UUC Eighth Grade Climate Activist
Caroline Heege, an 8th grader at UUC, was included in a Newsweek article interviewing youth climate activists around the world: https://www.newsweek.com/our-futures-are-risk-meet-kids-skipping-school-join-global-climate-strike-1458514. Caroline was also profiled recently in Seattle’s Child.
Climate Strike with Youth
Friday, September 20, 11:30 a.m. UUC meet up for march; 9 a.m.-noon Climate Justice Fest Join the Climate Action Team and other UU’s as we join youth worldwide in marching for a livable future....
From the Climate Action Team
We Are Counting on You Every Friday for eight months, teenager Greta Thunberg sat outside Sweden’s parliament with her sign declaring a school strike to call for greater action on climate change. [1] Ms....
Climate Action Team Meeting
Sunday, September 8, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook Room 23 (front) Join the discussion about UUC taking a position on the Seattle Green New Deal, working toward solar panels for a selected building, and...
From the Climate Action Team
The Winds of Change “Imagination is essential to our ability to create, design and bring about the futures we want. Scientific inquiry, combined with our own dreams, fears and desires, are the building blocks...
From the Climate Action Team
Restoring Relationship “Relationship endures…here is where our most challenging and most rewarding work lies, in restoring a relationship of respect, responsibility, and reciprocity. And love… “…A 1994 statement from the Indigenous Environmental Network puts...
Climate Action Team Meeting – August 11
Sunday, August 11, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Meadowbrook Community Center, Room 11 Join us to review the Climate Action Team’s mission, focus, and objectives. Help us take the next steps toward our long term goals...
From the Climate Action Team
Dare a Deed that Challenges and Kindle a Hope [1] It is common to feel helpless and vulnerable in face of danger. Climate change is a danger that leaves many feeling anxious and wondering...
From the Climate Action Team
The Gifts of Trees When I am among the trees,especially the willows and the honey locust,equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,they give off such hints of gladness. ~Mary Oliver When you are...
From the Climate Action Team
Poetics: Pacific Places, Rising Oceans, Rising Voices… For now, we sit, until we feel the existential personal threat of change. Holding the existence of our world in our hearts may be challenging, but, there...
From the Climate Action Team
What Do We Value as a Nation? For this 4th of July, Seattle PI columnist Joel Connelly wrote that we must not let narcissism “dominate and politicize Independence Day.” [1] We, the people, must...
From the Climate Action Team
The UU Seventh Principle The UU Seventh Principle is thought of as our environmental principle, but it is really a very comprehensive principle. We covenant to affirm and promote “respect for the interdependent web...
From the UUC Climate Action Team
Our Mutual Interconnectedness Last Sunday Reverend Beth spoke of awakening commitment to mutuality and awareness of our interconnected destinies; of finding collective power as a people to affect policy and cultural change. Here is...
Youth Climate Lawsuit
Sunday, June 16, 11:15 a.m. in Meadowbrook Room 11 Come hear stories about the Youth Climate Lawsuit, actions of civil disobedience, and more from: Levi Draheim, the youngest plaintiff in the lawsuit, age 11“I...
From the Climate Action Team
The Climate Action Team invites you to engage understanding and living our Second Principle. UU Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, in the book Justice on Earth, wrote: “Stepping into the inequality and suffering we have created...
From the Climate Action Team
This week the UUC Climate Action Team wants to call attention to the UN’s May 6 report on Species Extinction and to a promise of a local tribal group to be good caretakers: Until...
Loving the Interconnected Web of Existence
In light of this past Earth Day and Spring, the Climate Action Team invites you to meditate on this quote from Buddhist Teacher, Thich Nhat Hahn: We can all experience a feeling of deep...
Climate Action Team Meeting – May 5
Sunday, May 5, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook room 22 (back) The state legislative session ended with many wins for climate action, but the task of mitigating climate change still looms large. Please join...
Climate Action Team Meeting – April 14
Sunday, April 14, 11:45 a.m.-1:10 p.m. in Meadowbrook room 23 Everyone is welcome to attend the next Climate Action Team meeting to learn what is happening in our city, county, state, and beyond and...