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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday, March 10, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook Room 23 (front) Seattle just released its latest emissions data. How are we doing? Not very well. Some Climate Action Team members have been meeting with...
Sunday, February 24, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook room 23 The Seattle Chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East and UUC’s Climate Action Team are co-sponsoring this presentation which will include...
Sunday, January 13, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Meadowbrook Room 22 In their book Climate of Hope, Carl Pope and Michael Bloomberg state that cities account for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. So that is where...
Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Environment Sunday, January 6, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Meadowbrook Community Center Room 21 The UUC Racial Justice Team and the UUC...
Sunday, December 9, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Room 22 at the Meadowbrook CC The Fourth National Climate Assessment, made public on Nov. 23, 2018, underscores the need for urgent action nationally. On the other hand,...
Sunday, November 11, 11:45 a.m., Room 22 at the Meadowbrook CC K4C, PCA, IPCC, JUUstice Washington, and more–are you confused? Concerned? Come to the next meeting of UUC’s Climate Action Team to find out what...
Monday, October 29, 10 a.m. at the Federal Courthouse UUC’s Climate Action Team invites you to join a rally for the beginning of the “trial of the century,” as young people challenge the federal...
Saturday, October 27, 10 a.m. to dusk, Vashon Island The UUC Climate Action Team invites you to join Plant-for-the-Planet Ambassadors to plant 100 trees and 100 shrubs, restoring 10 acres of Vashon Island forest with...
Sunday, October 14, 11:30 a.m., Room 22 at the Meadowbrook CC The International Panel on Climate Change just released their newest report and it’s not looking good for Earth’s creatures, including us. Happier news...
On the second Sunday of each month our Sunday morning plate collection goes to a social justice cause. On October 14, we will be receiving the offering in support of Front and Centered, a...