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A Unitarian Universalist State Action Network

Webinar Draws Parallels Between COVID-19 and Climate Crisis, June 11, online

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Join UUs for a Just Economic Community for a webinar:

Climate Crisis, like COVID-19, is a Global Health Threat; & Managing the Health Effects of the Climate Crisis. Thursday June 11, 5:00 pm PDT

To join our Webinar, please click here.

Brief Bio:
Julia Ying is a volunteer public speaker trained by former US Vice President Al Gore and the Climate Reality Project. She is Co-Chair of the Climate Reality Northern New Mexico Chapter. She is also a member of 350 Santa Fe. She is a retired General Medical Practitioner from Sydney Australia, and is a happy grandmother to 5 grandchildren. She is now living in Los Alamos, NM. She is passionate about taking care of Mother Earth, to preserve the beauty of nature she loves, and to know her grandchildren can grow up in a safe, sustainable world.

Julia Ying can be contacted on: climaterealitynnm@gmail.com     Website: ClimateRealityNNM.org

UUs for a Just Economic Community Webinar: $ The Green New Deal $ Yes We Can! May 14, 2020

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Too often the argument “How can we possible pay for it?” stops any further discussion of implementing the Green New Deal. Join UUJEC for a webinar on how to change conventional thinking. A “can do” attitude can make impressive headway, both against global warming and the social, economic, political gridlock that stymies us.

Join Zoom Meeting

Adam Wasserman, host; Thursday, May 14, 5 pm PDT

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6687480796
Meeting ID: 668 748 0796
+13462487799, 6687480796# US
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Cities Climate Action Webinar: Focus on Buildings, May 2, 2020, online

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Buildings have a big impact on climate, and cities can shrink that impact. Find out how at this event! Saturday, May 2, 9:30 – 11:00 am PDT.    Additional Q&A: 11:00 – 11:30 am PDT

Join us to hear Vincent Martinez and Erin McDade, national leaders in this field, describe the work that their organization, Architecture 2030, has done with a few U.S. cities to address the buildings emissions challenge through public policies.

Learn more                         Sign up here 

Before their presentations, we will be joined by Bellevue City Council Member Janice Zahn, who will frame the important role of our local cities. Then we will hear some specific details on how the energy use and greenhouse
gas emissions of buildings can be significantly reduced. We will also hear a report from the City of Bellingham’s Climate Action Task Force on policy actions their city is taking to reduce the impacts of buildings.

Did you know that in our nation, buildings:

*    are responsible for over 40% of our energy consumption
*    use over 75% of the power on the electrical grid, and
*    account for over a third of all greenhouse gas emissions?
But cities can reduce building emissions–learn more in this Webinar.

Sign up here

<http://peopleforclimateaction.org/> People for Climate Action members are
organizing and paying for this event. Many other climate-focused groups are
helping promote it. Thank you!

Watch Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy COVID-19 Solidarity Webinar/Take Action

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Picture of the COVID-19 cellThank you to the over 200 supporters who joined our COVID-19 Solidarity Webinar on April 7th. If you weren’t able to join us live, you can watch the webinar recording here!

We know that the impacts of both the climate crisis and COVID-19 are disproportionately felt by lower-income, communities of color, and working people. Our labor union and community of color based partners are working tirelessly to support their members who are working on the frontlines of this crisis.

Here are ways you can support their calls for emergency justice! 

We developed a COVID–19 Solidarity Resource Toolkit and a Collection of Solidarity Actions and Policy Demands with the goal of gathering all COVID–19 resources and policy demands into one place. You can also find the most up-to-date calls to action on our website.

The Climate Alliance believes that a just response and recovery from COVID-19 is absolutely necessary to create a safer, more equitable, and climate justice future. Our efforts to tackle these dual crises must prioritize the health and safety of our communities, protect and lift up those who are most impacted, and must be rooted in racial and economic justice. I hope you will join us!

In Solidarity,

Lauren Breynaert

Coalition Director, Climate Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy

UU United Nations Office Intergenerational Spring Seminar, April 15-18, 2020, New York, NY

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April 15-18 — All In for Climate Justice: People. Power. Planet.
UU United Nations Office Intergenerational Spring Seminar – New York, NY
Send an Intergenerational team from your congregation!!

The cost of Early Registration (December 2 – February 3) for all attendees is $375. Regular registration is open February 4 – March 2 at an increased rate. This year we have a new model in which all attendees pay the same rate, regardless of age. This adjustment moves the Seminar towards being more sustainably funded, with all costs shared between attendees.

Apply by January 27 for a reduced registration rate.

Registration