ICCT recently endorsed NC Interfaith Power & Light’s resolution calling for Duke Energy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. (more…)
The ICCT Meeting, “Solving the Climate Challenge: National Climate Policy and Advocacy,” on January 26, 2021, featured two speakers from Citizens Climate Lobby: Donald Addu, Program Director; and Shae Reinberg, Youth Team Leader.
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many ICCT presentations focused on demonstrating
that climate change is a biblical issue, as well as a scientific one. The pandemic has
moved us to recognize that Covid-19 is also a biblical/religious issue, as well as a medical one.
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Kane Realty promotes the Downtown South Project in Raleigh as a transformative development. How much more transformative it would be if it were sustainably built, energy net zero, green and racially just! Please make your views known to the Planning Commission and to the City Council. Click here for details.
We invite you to serve as a liaison to your Triangle faith community. We are looking for partners who will help ensure your faith community is informed about ICCT events and resources, and make ICCT aware of your faith community’s priorities and creation care activities.
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December 3, 2020
Mary Ellen McGuire (St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Chapel Hill) discusses why community gardens are an important part of creation care, in her December 3 Zoom presentation for Orange-Chatham Interfaith Care for Creation and Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle. Watch the Video Now
For more than a decade, I had admired the massive ancient oak trees in my neighbor’s yard. When one of them came down in a storm a few years ago, I was awed by what I saw. When the tree stood upright, I saw strength and majesty. As the tree lay on the ground before me, I saw an intricate complexity to life that I had never before fully comprehended. It was a sacred experience.
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November 10, 2020
Dr. Elizabeth Bagley from Project Drawdown gave an uplifting Zoom presentation on the Drawdown Climate Solutions Framework, with examples of a diverse array of climate solutions.
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The voices of people of color in North Carolina have been repeatedly ignored in the decision-making process that determines where to build dumps, hazardous waste sites, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), coal ash pits, and, more recently, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Moving forward, minority communities must have a seat at the planning table. Read the stories of this sordid history here.
October 12, 2020
Watch the video of this presentation on Environmental Justice by Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, a renowned thought leader, international speaker, community liaison, trainer and facilitator. Co-sponsored with NC Wildlife Federation and Orange Chatham Interfaith Care for Creation.
