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Adult Forum “Towards Carbon Neutrality: Advocacy”

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

In 2007 the world was challenged by the IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – to reduce our collective carbon footprint by 80% by 2030 to avoid catastrophe climate change. In response, United Earth Ministries began to seek ways for United Church to model ideas of how this may be achieved.  With the addition of solar panels we have reduced our carbon footprint 52%.  So how do we reduce another 30%? Advocacy Susannah Tuttle from the NC Interfaith Power & Light will join us to talk about advocating for changes in the source of our power to achieve a lower carbon footprint.  After we have done all the caulking, biking and conservation we can do, we live in a culture with centralized and publicly-authorized power sources.   Advocacy is how citizens have a voice in regulating and producing the energy they want to consume.  

“Sanctuary Church” Conversation

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

The Board of Justice, Outreach and Service has been in a conversation on what would it mean to welcome our neighbors or to be a “sanctuary church” or to advocate for immigration justice. Now it is time to widen the conversation and to plan for deepened conversations. Interested people are invited to join in this conversation. This is an initial meeting and we hope to keep it to less than 59 minutes. We envision coming out of the meeting with tasks (and task groups) that may include to: listen to cry of God's people plan for an educational series on immigrant justice discern the intersections between immigrant injustice and other forms of injustice (racial, economic, environmental, sexual identity, etc.) discover the resources we currently have ascertain what else we need to know or do support people unjustly treated as we await advocacy and change embody "sanctuary" as a community of faith Resources you may wish to look at include: Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Congregation: The Journey is Made by Walking Sanctuary Not Deportation: A Faithful Witness to Building Welcoming Communities

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