Climate Action

Here are more great ideas from the Suzuki Foundation on how we can each reduce our climate and environmental impact. https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/how-to-green-your-household/ Please keep track of your actions, big and small so that we can share them with one another in the fall.

Do you know a student who is looking for volunteer hours?   Maybe you’d like to contribute your time and energy. Working on Habitat Restoration is a positive way to address both the mitigation of and adaptation to Climate Change. The following are organizations that focus on Habitat Restoration in need of volunteers.  Habitat Restoration – … Read more

At the Spring Festival many of you stopped by the Climate Action Help Desk to talk about actions you were planning or already doing to reduce your carbon footprint. We enjoyed hearing about your activities. The Climate Action Team invites you to make this a summer of individual or household climate action. When we come … Read more

    This summer the Climate Action Team invites you to take personal or household action to address climate change. In the fall the congregation will share their experiences and celebrate Our Summer of Action.  Check back here on the Climate Action Webpage and read more details in the upcoming All Church Emails (ACE). 

Wildfires have raged across Canada the last few weeks, covering huge areas of eastern Canada and the U.S. in thick, apocalyptic orange haze. Even if you weren’t breathing record levels of particulates where you are, (and many of us were) you might still be feeling anxiety just from seeing images of the smoke-filled orange skies.  Renee Lertzman is a psychologist whose … Read more