Interfaith CincinnatiThe FCGG Book Club is back!
The FCGG Book Club will meet at 7:00pm to 8:00pm, Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Janelle Alen will facilitate the discussion on The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Watch for emails from FCGG@greenumbrella.org with registration for the book club and other Education/lifestyle program announcements. Please be sure FCGG@greenumbrella.org is in your email address list.
The Education/Lifestyles Working Group presents
Cash Incentives to Make Your Home (and House of Worship) Energy Efficient
November 13, 2024, at 7 pm Eastern Time
Register to attend this virtual program. https://us02web.zoom.us/
Our guest speaker will inform us about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law in 2022. The IRA program is designed to save American households money while reducing climate change and air pollution. It contains cost-saving incentives for yadding energy upgrades in your home such as, heat pumps, efficient air conditioners, insulation, windows, and doors, as well as solar electricity generation, solar water heating, and battery storage, among other technologies. We will discuss tax credits, rebates, and grant/loan programs available to individuals now through 2032. Please Register to attend this program and learn how you can lower your utility bills, while you help care for Mother Earth!
Our Guest Speaker will be Nikki Vandivort.
Nikki is a FUSE Executive Fellow at the City of Cincinnati – Office of Environment & Sustainability. She has 17 years of environmental consulting experience. In her role at the City, she conducts community outreach and education on the incentives available in the IRA.
URI Principle 9 focuses on practicing healing and reconciliation to resolve conflict without resorting to violence.”
This is why we want to lean into caring for our environment, because when we care for the environment and restore ecosystems we’re also restoring our communities and preventing or reducing violence.
Join us!
Date: Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Time: 8:30 am PDT
Join us for a lecture from Environmental Scholar and Author, Dr. Robert Bullard.
Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University. He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from Iowa State University.
In 2021, President Joe Biden named him to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC). In 2022, the University of California, Berkeley Ecology Law Quarterly gave him its Environmental Leadership Award, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award; Georgetown University and the University of Johannesburg awarded him honorary doctorates; and he was elected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A virtual program on
March 25th, 2024 at 7 pm Eastern
In this program our speakers will talk about the medical consequences of climate change, and also its adverse effects on human society (e.g. migration, poverty, food insecurity, etc.)
Our Speakers:
Kathleen Downey MD – a family physician for 43 years, and Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati Medical School.
Caroljean Willie, SC, Ph.D. – Program Director at EarthConnection, a ministry of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, which is a center for learning and reflection about living lightly on Earth.
Program Moderator:
Becca Desai, Co-Leader – Education/Lifestyles Working Group, FCGG
Dear FCGG Members,
It has been a LONG time since we have met, so here’s an invitation to a Members Meeting, December 14th from 7 – 8 pm.
This meeting will take place over Zoom.
RSVP to Becca at education@fcgg.org
Please let us know you are coming.
In this meeting, we’ll give you a quick update on what each of our three Working Groups have been doing this past year, but most importantly we want to hear from YOU! We want YOU to also update us on what Climate Action steps your Houses of Worship and congregations have been taking, and how can we help in that process! We also want to hear YOUR IDEAS and what you have learned this past year that you can share with us at FCGG. In this meeting we will spend more time listening to you than us talking about FCGG!
We hope that all of you will join us on zoom as we are truly looking forward to connecting with you! Dec 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Discussion facilitated by Janelle Allen
Live on Zoom: Register Here
In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth?
Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life.
In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.
Putting the SDGs into action:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are a commitment to achieving sustainable development across three dimensions – environmental, social, and economic in an inclusive and integrated way.
Please join the “Cincinnati Area Faith Communities Go Green” team to participate in a global Ecochallenge and put these SDGs into action.
It’s free! It’s fun!
To be a part of the team REGISTER HERE!
Learn more about the United Nations SDGs at
https://sdgs.un.org/
Learn more about this EcoChallenge at https://earthmonth.
Questions/Concerns?
Contact: Becca Desai at bfdesai@aol.com
Putting the SDGs into action:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are a commitment to achieving sustainable development across three dimensions – environmental, social, and economic in an inclusive and integrated way.
Please join the “Cincinnati Area Faith Communities Go Green” team to participate in a global Ecochallenge and put these SDGs into action.
It’s free! It’s fun!
To be a part of the team REGISTER HERE!
Learn more about the United Nations SDGs at
https://sdgs.un.org/
Learn more about this EcoChallenge at https://earthmonth.
Questions/Concerns?
Contact: Becca Desai at bfdesai@aol.com
Presenter: Maureen Wild, SC (Gabriola Island, Canada)
Webinars are free, but registration is required. For more information and to register go to: www.scearthconnection.org.