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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.  

It opens with 2014 UN Climate Leader's Summit, where Leonardo DiCaprio was designated as a UN Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.  DiCaprio travels across the globe to many locations showing the accelerating consequences of Fossil Fuel Pollution and Climate Change, ending with the hope of Renewable Energy, the 2015 Paris Climate Talks, and an audience with Pope Francis.    2016, 96 minutes        

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%? Changing the Built Environment and the Trade-offs Phill Wilson from United Earth Ministries will talk about possible changes, costs and likely savings at United Church in lighting, HVACs, additional solar panels, battery power, lifestyle changes, etc.  We will explore the choices and limitations with these options and their potential to reduce our carbon footprint.  Discerning the best options as we move forward is complicated.  

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%? Cultivating Creation Alan Johnson from United Earth Ministries and a former staff person at the NC Botanical Garden will talk natural landscapes, indigenous plantings, and how to cultivate outdoor space to benefit the whole of creation.  Increasingly the whole of creation has been and is cultivated by humankind.  There are fewer and fewer places on earth where human activity is not predominant.  For example, the flora and fauna of our church grounds reflect ground that was previously farmed or used as a pasture for livestock.  What we plant and how we cultivate the earth entrusted to us, will be seen for generations.