Homeowners, nonprofits, and businesses can install solar and battery storage while navigating multiple layers of cost savings while becoming better stewards of the Earth.
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“Save Our Mother,” "Vote/Pray," -- some of the messages from almost 200 folks holding signs that greeted drivers on Raleigh’s Wade Avenue during ICCT’s 2ndPrayer Chain for the Earth on October 3, 2022.
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Since its inception, ICCT has held the firm belief that together, faith communities will make a powerful impact on the growing climate crisis. Happily, earth care practices at the 78 ICCT faith communities are bubbling up everywhere. To learn from and inspire each other, ICCT's Earth Friendly Practices Action Team has created a survey for network Triangle congregations.
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Good news! The U.S. Senate passed the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act on July 28, 2022. ICCT supported the bill when we hosted an April 2022 webinar presented by the U.S. Composting Council and attended by 50 people in April 2022. Ask your U.S. House member to support the bill using this easy-to-navigate link. See more information on the bill, the webinar, the recording, and ICCT’s position here.
Webinar and Advocacy Resources
Join Caroline Wofford for a dive into climate change, policy, social justice, and imagining a better world. Working together using Using Climate Interactive's En-Roads Simulator tool we will create and analyze a scenario that limits global temperature rise, and investigate the social, economic, and environmental consequences of our actions. This will be a highly interactive workshop, so come prepared to participate, and be ready to challenge your mental models and expand your understanding of climate systems!
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Read more about Christian, listen to the YouTube recording, and access the words, lead sheet, and chord sheets for the song. Christian generously welcomes us to use the song in our faith communities.
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Participate in a study on the effect of environmental contaminants such as PFAS and toxic metals on liver health. Data from the CDC shows the body burden of these contaminants is disproportionately borne by ethnic minorities and the poor of any ethnicity. More data is needed to enable better environmental policy.
Renovating or Building Green: Where to Start
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 7:00 PM
Faith communities, homeowners, and businesses are renovating or building green. Sixty people joined ICCT and cosponsors for a program on the benefits of green building for sustainability, energy efficiency and savings, and advocating for greener building codes.
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On October 18, 200+ people of faith and people of conscience formed a Human Prayer Chain for Climate Justice sponsored by ICCT along Wade Avenue from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh to the Community United Church of Christ and beyond! On October 24, Orange-Chatham Interfaith Care for Creation is sponsoring a similar prayer chain in Chapel Hill.
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October 22, 2021
A new study by Dr. Ryan Emanuel of N.C. State finds that oil and gas pipelines put vulnerable communities at risk of water and air pollution, with greater incidence of public health and safety issues. Find out more.
