350 International Day of Climate Change Awareness.

 A focus on the Seventh Principle “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” 

The Green Sanctuary Committee and the Program Committee urge you to participate in an International Day of Climate Change Awareness. 

October 25 will be the culmination of the Green Sanctuary Committee’s participation in the worldwide 350 campaign. On this day, thousands of organizations worldwide will highlight the grassroots sense of urgency in calling upon the UN Climate Change Conference to take more meaningful action at their final meeting in Copenhagen in December. The world’s leaders must arrive at that conference with the voices of their people ringing in their ears, calling them to lower atmospheric CO2 levels to 350 parts per million (ppm).. we are currently at 386 ppm and rising a few ppm each year!! 

Throughout this campaign we will be working to increase our own and each other’s knowledge about ways to lower our individual and collective carbon footprints. These efforts will be highlighted in our Sunday worship services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.  Peggy Clarke, our Director of Religious Education, will preach at both services. Her sermon will be “Hymn of the Universe.” 

Following the second service the responses to the congregational survey, in which individuals will have had a chance to commit to actions to reduce their carbon footprint, will be tallied and displayed through art prepared by our Religious Education students. Photographs of the Fellowship members with a poster/banner indicating the collective amount of carbon saved by our green pledges will be sent to the International 350.org coordinating committee. It will then be forwarded, with thousands of other pledges, to the United Nations, as a means of demonstrating support for commitment to a meaningful new agreement to lower atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm.