Take Action
As Individuals...
- Make life-style changes that reduce our impact on the environment.
- Consume less fossil fuel by choosing fuel-efficient appliances, using alternative, renewable energy sources, choosing the most energy efficient transportation, reducing waste and recycling. (For ideas, see the Global Warming Action Kit from Unitarian Universalist (UU) Ministry for Earth.)
- Pledge to reduce your "carbon footprint" (the amount of carbon you produce) through Carbonfund.org.
- Use financial resources to encourage corporate social responsibility with respect to global warming/climate change. (See Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Committee on Socially Responsible Investing for suggestions.)
- Advocate for environmental justice.
- Sign up for action alerts on this and other issues at the UUA Washington Office Action Center.
- Commit to continued education about the science, impact, and mitigation of global warming/climate change and sharing this knowledge with others.
As Congregations...
- Develop congregational policies/practices that reduce our impact on the environment
- Practice environmentally responsible consumption in planning congregational events and development and create an atmosphere that encourages individual congregants/families to do the same.
- Seek certification through the Green Sanctuary Program from UU Ministry for Earth.
- Use financial resources to encourage corporate social responsibility with respect to global warming/climate change. (See UUA Committee on Socially Responsible Investing for suggestions.)
- Join or create an interfaith community group devoted to environmental justice.
- Incorporate reverence for life into congregational worship. (See suggestions from UU Ministry for Earth)
- Incorporate reverence for life into religious education programs.
For more information contact environment @ uua.org.
Last updated on Friday, June 20, 2008.
