Climate & Environmental Justice Calendar – JUUstice Washinton

Event Host: Congregational Church on Mercer Island

Description: Come and light a candle to remember the UN Climate Summit beginning the following morning.

The people of our Salish Sea are rising like the tide to protect what we love and cherish as sacred. Join us as we stand in solidarity with Salish Sea tribes to ensure their treaty rights are honored and respected and for other nations to have their unceded territories and natural laws honored and respected.

We are rising to stop Fracked Gas proposals, which threaten our communities, our waters and our climate. The World's Largest Fracked Gas to Methanol Refinery, proposed in Kalama, would become our state’s largest climate polluter by 2025, endanger local residents with high risk of explosion and harmful pollutants, and open the floodgates for toxic fracked gas infrastructure across the Pacific Northwest. Puget Sound Energy’s 14-story tall fracked gas tank is being constructed at the Port of Tacoma on Puyallup land, despite the Tribe’s opposition, and without all its permits. The Department of Ecology can stop both of these projects.

This event is a stop on the 4 day walk along our Salish Sea in solidarity with the many Indigenous Nations of our Salish Sea bio-region that are asking all of us to lift them up at this time, to begin our plans of restoration.

Event Host: Sierra Club, Protectors of the Salish Sea, 350 Seattle, Columbia Riverkeeper, Power Past Fracked Gas. Join us in calling on the Department of Ecology to protect our Salish Sea from Fracked gas!

Please note that  time is tentative and may change. Contact Stacy@350Seattle.org for more information

Being co-sponsored by a number of organizations of which members of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship are a part.

Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event in Earth’s history. Number five took out the dinosaurs. 

This era is called the Anthropocene, or “Age of Man,” because the evidence shows that humanity has sparked this catastrophic loss. 

We are also the only ones who can stop it.

Pickford Film Center

350.org Climate Emergency Gathering at Sta,chas village site of Nisqually people (Olympia State Capital) September 24th will also be the welcoming celebration point for walkers completing our 4 day 40 mile "Walk to Protect & Restore the Salish Sea 2019" for Salmon, Orcas and treaties. Please attend & share our affiliated event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2652829461396403/

The time is now for our State representatives to declare a Climate Emergency and then act upon that declaration by drafting Emergency legislation terminating all current fossil fuel expansion projects and proposals in the State of Washington such as Tacoma LNG (Fracked gas), Kalama Methanol (Fracked gas), Tacoma Par Pacific (Tar Sands oil import expansion), Puget Sound Pipeline (Tar Sands oil import expansion), North Seattle Lateral Pipeline Expansion (Fracked Gas LNG). The time is now to bring breach the 4 dams on the lower Snake River. The time is now tell Wa. St. Reps to honor our Tribal Lawsuit we won and immediately fund the opening of the culverts for our Salmon to swim through.

Organized by Multifaith Network for Climate Justice, Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship members participating.

Climate change is one of the key moral issues of our time and there is a clarion call to do our parts to protect Earth from its devastating effects.  

We, the members of the Multifaith Network for Climate Justice, believe it is essential that faith/wisdom communities be fully involved and committed to our moral responsibility to protect the Earth.  

Join us in Celebrating Earth, Our Common Home through prose, poetry, prayer, and music.

Presenters include representatives from:

• Red Cedar Dharma Hall 
• First Congregational Church 
• Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship 
• St. James Presbyterian 
• Temple Beth Israel 
• Garden Street Methodist 
• Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurudwara 
• Center for Spiritual Living Bahai's of Whatcom County Assumption Catholic Church Whatcom Pagans 

and other members of the faith community.

On September 27th at the conclusions of Climate Action Week and interfaith’s Season of Creation, Lummi Nation will be leading Netse Mot: One Mind for Xw’ullemy, an international and intertribal event that calls attention to the critical state of the Salish Sea, beloved by our Native and non-Native communities here in the U.S and in Canada. The goal of the event is to demonstrate the impact an international collaboration under the leadership of the Tribes/Nations, empowered by the support of environmental and social justice organizations and the faith community, can have in addressing the many of challenges the Salish Sea. Some of these challenges are the assaults on Tribal/National sovereignty, rights and cultural continuity. They are the impacts of climate change and of air/land/water pollution. They are the impacts of vessel traffic and fossil fuel, mining and other hazardous material industries. They are the declining marine wildlife populations like our Southern Resident Orcas and Chinook Salmon. And there are more.  Read more here.

Event opens at 4:30 pm and program starts at 5:00 pm.  More details will be coming soon so check out salishsea.org events and at JUUstice Washington's "Challenges of the Salish Sea wepages

Beautiful and Powerful Interactive Art Installation "ENVISION" in Luminata, hosted by 350 Seattle:

Enter a magical world of beautiful earth lanterns, lit up Salmon, and flowing water scapes. Create silhouettes on a giant screen to interact with gorgeous nature and people projections there, while grooving to meaningful music with a solid beat! Take part in a giant community embroidery of Turtle Island (our earth) with fluorescent black-lit yarns with someone you don't know working with you on each stitch from the other side of the "wall".

We can only create what we can imagine. Put your imagination to work, envisioning the details of the future you want for life on our planet, and intentionally putting that vision into a beautiful glowing earth lantern in your hands, and then ceremonially placing it in the giant lit up heart with everyone else's visions of the healthy and just future we can manifest together.

On your way to and from this installation, enjoy the rest of the Luminata lantern walk, the Fremont Arts Council's lively and illuminated celebration of Fall Equinox.

It’s not climate change, it’s a climate emergency. 

The UUA is partnering with 350.org, Extinction Rebellion (XR), Sunrise Movement and others who have answered Greta Thuberg’s call with youth from around the planet to join the Global Climate Strike with a huge kick off on Sept. 20th and various actions throughout the week. 

For Washington state events check this link.

Only our governments have the power to stop the fossil-fuel economy. Leaders of this movement, who have studied social movements that have led to real change, estimate that when 3.5% of the population is willing to strike or risk arrest or participate in ongoing protest that governments will respond. Our UUA Organizing Strategy Team will be sending out a Create Climate Justice alert next week with a sign up for UUs and listings of events. 

If you are not already subscribed, sign up here and check Create Climate Justice.

Time: Doors open at 5 - Silent Auction and Correo Aereo Trio until 6:15 - Dinner at 6:30 - Awards Ceremony, Speakers, Jami Sieber on electric cello

We'll be giving Backbone Awards to Pramila Jayapal and WA AG Bob Ferguson, as well as activists fighting to protect the orca, asylum seekers, and to end white supremacy and injustice.

Ticket price includes an outstanding meal crafted by the renown Tom Douglas Team, plus Scarpetta Italian wine, Dragon's Head Cider, Camp Colvos Beer, and an assortment of non-alcoholic drinks, including Botanical Dry Soda to keep you hydrated!

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Ancestral Waters tells the story of the Puyallup Tribe who signed the Treaty of Medicine Creek in 1854. In exchange for ceding vast areas of land to the U.S. government, the Puyallup were given a small reservation and several other benefits, one of which was the right to fish in their usual and accustomed waters. This treaty-protected right to fish is being threatened by a liquefied natural gas plant being built by Puget Sound Energy without permits on the Tacoma Tideflats, across the water from Vashon.

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350 Seattle

New to our work on behald of climate action? We’ll be holding a new volunteer orientation webinar on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m.! RSVP online or to meg@350seattle.org for call-in details.

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

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Below is a request from Lummi Nation. As some of you may know, Lummi Nation is seeking the return of Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita). For those of you who don’t know, Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) is the last remaining Orca that was brutally taken in the 1970s raids on the J, L, K pods from Penn Cove. Over 40 Orca youth were taken from our waters and dispersed to various aquarium around the world. Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) is growing older now and is near retirement from the aquarium. She has spent all but 4 years of her life (about 43 years) in a small concrete tank. She still remembers her pod’s songs. Lummi Nation has been trying to get Miami Seaquarium to release her and let her come home to spend her remaining years in the waters of her home and with her family (her mother is still alive). She will be kept in a special sanctuary and a detailed plan has been worked out to bring her home and secure her for the remainder of her life.

Miami Seaquarium has refused to let her come home.

Lummi Nation is calling for a prayer sending on October 10th, however, if y’all could include a few moments whatever day this week that you can if you are not able to join on the 10th.

“We will be together in prayer for Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Thursday, October 10, at 9:30am. We are asking you all to join us from wherever you are. Please say her name, please pray in your own way, please carry her in in your heart. We want Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to feel our love, we want to send her hope and strength. Please pray for Miami Seaquarium to do the right thing and work in a good way with us to bring her home in 2020. Hy’shqe.”

Statement from Raynell Squil-le-he-le Morris and Ellie Tah-Mahs Kinley, two Lummi Tribal women intending to sue Miami Seaquarium, Palace Entertainment, and EQT, for the return of Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita). Miami Seaquarium has until October 25, 2019 (90 days from the date of the letter of intent) to respond.

You can find more information here: https://sacredsea.org/skalichelhtenaut/. Take a few minutes to read and watch some of the videos, especially the link to the trailer for a documentary (https://vimeo.com/266726774).

Then say a prayer . . .

Thank you and I hope you will give this due consideration and show your support for Lummi Nation, Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and her relatives here in the waters of the Salish Sea.

Spotlighting the cities, states, businesses, and citizens taking action, Paris to Pittsburgh explores the very real social and economic impacts of climate change-fueled disasters, from America’s heartland to the nation’s coastlines. The film features voices from local leaders as well as everyday Americans presenting the stories behind climate-related recovery and resiliency, as well as tireless innovative efforts to reduce carbon emissions, including boomtowns formerly reliant on coal such as Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, led by Mayor Bill Peduto, who stood up to defy President Trump when he announced the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, is now a city committed to energy efficiency and is one of the many examples of bold economic and climate leadership in the film. Other locations featured in the film include Puerto Rico, California, Iowa, Florida, and New Jersey.  

Doors open at 6:30 pm for conversation and refreshments. Stay after the film for audience discussion!

The event is FREE, with donations gratefully accepted to cover expenses. See you at the movies!

See trailer here.

"Dammed to Extinction" features the life’s work of orca whale researcher Ken Balcomb and the beloved Puget Sound Southern Resident orca, of which only 73 remain. The orcas’ prize food is Snake River chinook salmon — but those salmon are on the precipice of extinction due to four obsolete dams that choke off access to thousands of miles of rivers. “Dammed to Extinction” shows how removing these dams will save money, salmon, and orca.

Trailer and more info: https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/dammed-to-extinction-3/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/720728881673576/ 

Sponsors: Meaningful Movies Port Townsend, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, QUUF Green Sanctuary Environmental Action Committee, and QUUF Social and Environmental Justice Council.

Tools to Guide Congregations and Communities Through the Energy Transition

This webinar will introduce The Sustainability Education and Energy Knowledge-sharing (SEEK) Project, an action research project of the Spirituality and Sustainability Initiative at Arizona State University, and demonstrate the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® for Congregations program. Both programs are designed for congregations but can be used by any community seeking a framework and tools to help accelerate their energy transitions.

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the turnout for the climate strike was breathtaking. As we celebrate what we achieved this past week, we know we have the capacity for more and we are preparing. We have a What's Next? webinar planned for 10/16 so register now.

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Co-sponsored with: David MacLeod, Transition Whatcom

“A Humble Relationship to Reality” Rev. Dowd speaks to the intersection of science, inspiration, and sustainability. He will explore healthy vs. unhealthy ways of relating to temporal and spacial reality and offer practical guidance for nurturing a mythic relationship to time and nature that doesn't require believing in anything.

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Co-sponsored with: David MacLeod, Transition Whatcom

Regenerative Inspiration in Challenging Times: A Dialogue with Michael Dowd and Joe Brewer. Join us for a dialogue between two friends who share a passion for catalyzing change toward greater resilience in our turbulent world. Topic of discussion includes: The task of bioregional regeneration as part of an emerging global movement to regenerate the entire planet. Humanity has destabilized the Earth's self-regulating abilities and now must restore health and resilience across various scales from local to global in the coming decades. How to stay sane, sober, and inspired to act locally and become ever more resilient in chaotic and contracting times.
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Come learn about how you can reduce your waste and plastic usage and, as a result, save money, live healthier, and live in a way that benefits the environment. This talk is part of a climate change series at the South Hill Library in Fall 2019.

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

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Olympia climate activists from several organizations and members of the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons are working with three powerful speakers to put together a retreat that addresses the intersectionality of climate and nuclear issues. Save the date/More information to come.

Register here.

As the chaos in the world increases, most ideas of the future become fatalistic. Yet, the situation only seems “hopeless” when viewed from the narrow logic of a collapsing world view. Old ways of seeing the world are blocking more vital paths of imagination, vision and healing.

The point is not simply evolution or progress, rather there needs to be a collective rite of passage that transforms our world view. Transformation is required to move us from despair and overwhelm to awakening and imagination. We are either on the way to transformation or on the road to greater tragedy.

The agony of the earth calls for each of us to defeat the growing alienation and isolation of life in order to become more human and be more present. The issue is not the pretension of “saving the planet,” but rather finding deeper ways of serving the earth. This world, despite all its troubles, remains a place of ongoing creation. Yet, creation can only work through the souls of those alive at a given time. What we learn from mythic stories and imagination is how our human nature can make us part of the ground of being and the vital pulse of the living world.

Join us for an evening of myths of renewal, tales of transformation, and a resounding call to find unity and wholeness in this time of conflict and confusion.Tickets: $15 General / $10 Student. Doors open at 6:30 pm

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

The UU Climate Action Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for Unitarian Universalist CATs, activists, and friends to come together online or by phone for conversation about spiritual resources, current events, stories, questions and struggles, and calls for action and solidarity towards climate justice.

Calls take place the second Wednesday of each month at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. You can join by phone or web (Zoom.us); by yourself or with others in your congregation.  Sign up to join the Climate Action Roundtable mailing list and get dial-in information for the next call.

JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE