General Assembly 2013 Event 2064 Program Description Do you know where your energy comes from when you turn on a light switch in your own home? Our climate is changing because of how we harness and use energy, and we are causing harm to our planet, our communities, our neighbors, and our future....

General Assembly 2009 Event 4032 Sponsored by the Commission on Social Witness. Presenters: Rev. John Millspaugh, co-minister, Winchester Unitarian Society, Winchester, MA, and Chair of the Ethical Eating: Food and Environmental Justice Core Team; Rev. LoraKim Joyner, co-minister, Unitarian...

General Assembly 2009 Event 4010 Most Unitarian Universalists (UUs) can tell you, chapter and verse, about all the things that are going wrong with the world: We spend a lot of time commiserating about environmental problems: excessive resource use, frivolous levels of waste, dehumanizing urban...

Presenters: Rev. Craig Schwalenberg, Sarah Summers, Bruce Knotts The 2011 Dana Greeley Award Sermon winners were Rev. Craig Schwalenberg and Sarah Summers....

Presenters: Rev. Michael Schuler, Rev. John Gibb Millspaugh Food was a contentious issue for the first Christians, Paul’s epistles reveal. Today we are still trying to reconcile the ethics of eating with our hunger for community. Michael Schuler, an authority on sustainability and Senior Minister...

General Assembly 2009 Event 3013 Presenters: Rev. John Gibb Millspaugh, co-minister of Winchester Unitarian Society and chair of the Ethical Eating: Food and Environmental Justice core team; Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States. Rev. John...

Presenters: Rev. Margaret Beard, Rev. Allison Farnum, Rowan Van Ness This workshop frames the relationship between immigration and environmental justice (EJ) and demonstrates on-the-ground work with immigration/EJ issues by using two congregational case studies. A representative from the National...

General Assembly 2007 Event 4036 "State lawmakers can effectively drive legislation to fight global warming on a broad scale," said Fran Pavley, a former state assembly woman behind two of California's landmark bills, describing her efforts in a standing-room only session at General Assembly Her...

Individual resources for impacting change through buying, selling, raising and consuming food varies.  Even the smallest effort can serve as an educational and awareness tool to impact others' views and behaviors.  In addition, each act is a positive direction for preserving life on this...

The following steps are recommendations that CATs can utilize if they choose, to help get started taking climate action as a team. The main requirement is to register with the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office. “CAT Values and Goals” and “Ten Suggestions to Get Involved on Climate...

Introduction“Tragedy of the Commons” is key to the discussion of the morality associated with the exploitation of resources and the human causes of climate change. The concept is that a group of people sharing a resource that no one owns, such as air, will exploit it to the maximum possible...

This curriculum is aimed at fourth and fifth graders. However, it can be used for a range of ages. Use your judgment to determine which activities are appropriate for your group, and feel free to add to them as needed....

Introduction The UN makes an important distinction in the terminology we use to describe natural disasters. They claim that events such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes are natural hazards. They become disasters when humans are affected because they are unprepared. With the...

Introduction Climate change is altering the health of our planet, and human health is being affected at the same time. There are many ways in which this is happening, including pollution, hunger that increases susceptibility to disease, and air and water quality....

Introduction Energy is a big subject on the world stage right now. We are running out of exploitable fossil fuels, so it is key that we develop renewable energy sources. However, each has its pros and cons....