Our Sac Area Congregations Together Environmental Justice Committee met with Laurie Litman and Oscar Balaguer of “350 Sacramento” to learn more about climate change and environmental justice in our area. Thank you to committee member Claudia Kirkpatrick (from the Friends [Quaker] Community) for arranging this meeting. We will discuss the results of this and our
We’re meeting with Sacramento environmental leaders to identify conditions that create environmental injustice in Sacramento and to identify issues and opportunities to change those conditions. This, our first meeting, was with Brandon Rose who is a SMUD Board Member, President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, and a State Air Resources Board employee. Great guy
Today we met with Chris Aguirre of the American River Parkway Foundation’s “Recreate for Health” program to see how we could support their program to provide at-risk youth opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in a safe, healthy setting. Recreate for Health, an outdoor educational and rec program, works with youth development organizations in under-served communities
Fourteen talented people gathered on 10/17 to continue the research process to determine our priorities and actions. This month we are meeting with ECOS and 350 Sacramento, and we are scheduling meetings with the Mayor’s office to discuss the distribution of the $44M VW settlement funds Sacramento is getting and with the Sacramento Housing Alliance,
In photo starting from left: UU Interfaith Earth Justice team members Hally Cahssai and Bobbie Keill, and Christine Bailey, Susan Orr – Sacramento Climate Sangha, Mark Carlson – Lutheran Office of Public Policy, Dr. Anne Kjemtrup – SALAM Center, Dr. Reem Al Olaby – SALAM Center, Theo Goodwin – Congergation B’Nai Israel, Ruth Ivory-Moore –
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is an exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep. Photos are of children of Love Canal protesting hazardous waste buried in
