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.
Our new membership engagement working group will meeting is Nov 21 at 4 pm; Membership Engagement Working Group Virtual meeting, November 21, 2024, 4:00 – 5:00pm, Register here to receive a zoom link (https://us06web.zoom.us/
The Faith Communities Go Green (FCGG) Membership Engagement Working Group exists to ensure all FCGG members have a fulfilling membership experience. The group helps organize in-person and virtual membership meetings, and canvasses members for specific roles and skills needed by the FCGG Working Groups and leaders. The Membership Engagement WG also solicits and shares any concerns or suggestions from the members with FCGG leaders. FCGG values the dedicated members and volunteers that have undergirded our success and have developed this working group to care for those members and volunteers.
Get Involved, share your ideas, and participate as much as or little as you wish.
To learn more and to join our conversation come to this virtual FCGG Membership Engagement Working Group meeting.If you wish to join this meeting but cannot make it this time, feel free to contact Donna, Member Engagement Leader, at fcggmembers@gmail.com or text Donna at 513-226-3107.
In this virtual program, 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 adding 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. As always, we will provide our audience with a Toolkit of resources on this topic. Please Register to attend this program and learn how you can lower your utility bills, while you help care for Mother Earth!
Our beautiful Ohio River was declared the 2nd most endangered river by American Rivers in April due to threats from industrialization and pollution. In U.S. law, nature is considered property to be used as humans decide. Many indigenous people, scientists, and a growing number of ecologically-concerned people believe that the natural (other than human) world has a voice that we must listen to and respect, not only for the health of the natural world but our own health.
One way to offer the natural world protection is to encode this into our legal system. As part of a growing international movement, Citizens for Rights of the Ohio River Watershed (CROW) has started a petition to recognize that the Ohio River and its watershed have a right to thrive and flourish. Come join the presentation and discussion – Is water acred? Why are watersheds important? How did this international movement start? What difference would a rights-based law make? What do faith-based communities have to say about this issue of nature’s rights and protecting our Ohio River watershed? For more information on CROW, go to crowohio.org
Presenters:
Deborah Jordan is the clerk of Community Friends Meeting (Quaker) a founding member of CROW, and a mediator. She has a long history of a concern for natural, biodiverse yards. She is also the producer of the Central Ohio River Valley (CORV) Local Food Guide.
Bill Cahalan is a psychologist who brings the Human-Earth relationship into his work with clients. A founding member of CROW, he teaches a contemplative practice of communion with life. Bill and Deborah engage in regenerative land care on the 9/10ths of an acre in the Bold Face Creek Watershed they call home.
Hosted by Faith Communities Go Green, Advocacy Working Group.
Register to join the conversation!
Bring your lunch – we’ll have drinks and a seasonal treat for dessert!