How do you know if you’re ready to join UUCA’s Climate Action Team? You’re already busy enough and not really itching to add anything to your plate, right? Of course you care about the planet. You make a legitimate effort to recycle. You read a few paragraphs past the...

We are the Earth Mamas, a small group of women who came together out of shared concerns for our world and our families. Each day brings more news of the devastation to our planet and people, caused by all of us, especially in our consumerist country. The problems are...

Want to ride the reality seesaw with me? It’s the one that lifts us up with sensory experiences of beauty and sweetness, with gratitude for connection and sufficiency, and with delight in novelty and adventure. It’s also the one that drops us into anger about racial...

First and foremost, let’s establish that there is, in fact, no such thing as “away.” Everything that we dispose of goes somewhere. The very concept of throwing things away attempts to alleviate us from thinking about the ultimate outcome of our disposables (which is,...

The Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed on Tuesday “invests $370 billion in spending and tax credits in low-emission forms of energy to fight climate change,” according to the New York Times. “It extends federal health-insurance subsidies, allows the...

Did you arrive a little late to the Climate Action Team’s Save & Savor the Earth blog party? That’s OK, better late than never! And for those of you who have been around since we launched over seven months ago: rock on! We’re grateful for your engagement and for...

The moment has arrived for the congregation to begin gathering in its new digs on N. Druid Hills Road! Climate Action Team co-leader Nicole Haines and I toured the campus several weeks ago before assembling a basic recycling center for the social hall. Project...

Almost two dozen members of congregational Green Teams from all over the metro area met on July 14 for a tour of the WestRock Recycling Facility in Marietta. The event was organized by Georgia Interfaith Power and Light and led by WestRock’s general manager, Will...

At the end of Paul Hawken’s Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, he outlines four concrete action and connection ideas to help us answer the questions of where to start and how to make a difference. The climate crisis is no longer a far off...

Are you one of the millions of people worldwide who take part in Plastic Free July? It’s OK if you haven’t heard of it. You do know how bad our plastic pollution problem is though, right? You know that nearly 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year,...