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/meeting/register/tZAlfuCvqT4uE9bOwTh9AgpHJYAc45qHd8al#/registration
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.
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/meeting/register/tZctc-igqz8tG90e1jWTdxXrz4jL3dcAstpq#/registration )
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.
Please visit the FCGG Booth at The Earth Care Festival
Saturday, June 15, from 9:00am to 1:00pm
Evergreen Presbyterian Church
9994 Zig Zag Road,
Montgomery, OH 45242
The 2024 Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit brings together 600 passionate and visionary leaders to share inspiring, forward-thinking, and solution-oriented ideas that propel us toward a healthier, more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future. Join us for an action-packed day featuring 80+ speakers, an expo, an art show, and live performances.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
Increase your knowledge of TREES and TREE PROGRAMS in our region. In this virtual program, our speakers will inform us about the tremendous importance of trees in our communities, their role in our ecosystem, in our physical and spiritual lives, and how they help in restoring our planet’s environment! Learn about local community tree programs and how you and/or your congregation can participate. As always, we will provide our audience with a Toolkit of resources on this topic.
Register here to attend this program!
Our Speakers:
Susan Fox, a Tree Steward from Cincinnati, OH
Chris Smyth, Director, Common Orchard Project, Green Umbrella, Cincinnati, OH
Bennet Kottler, Restoration Project Director, the Mill Creek Alliance, Cincinnati, OH
Program Host:
Becca Desai, Co-Chair, Education/Lifestyles Working Group,
Faith Communities Go Green (FCGG)
The Taft Lecture Series presents a Lecture from Environmental Scholar and Author, Dr. Robert Bullard.
Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., is 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.
Professor Bullard is often called the “father of environmental justice.” He is also co-founder of the HBCU-CBO Gulf Coast Equity Consortium and HBCU Climate Change Consortium, and co-chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Bullard is the author of eighteen books that address environmental racism, urban land use, housing, transportation, sustainability, smart growth, climate justice, and community resilience. Dr. Bullard is a proud Vietnam-era U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Funded by The Charles P. and Eleanor Taft Memorial Fund, the Taft Lecture Series features provocative thinkers, writers, teachers, theologians, social justice activists, and leaders in the fields of religion, social science, the arts, politics, and more. Lectures are presented once or twice or year as the featured speakers’ schedules permit, and are always free to the public. Space is limited, registration is required.
When you register, you will receive an email with a QR Code, this is your ticket for the event.
LOCATION
CCC Cincinnati
318 East 4th Street
Cincinnati OH United States 45202
Concert: Mysterium: Earth, Water, Wind, Void, and Fire -The
Five Elements.
Fluidity: A Creative Choral Community for a Cause is a chorus of passionate and diverse singers that gives back to our community by putting on choral concerts that benefit non-profit organizations in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Twice a year, spring and fall, Fluidity’s board selects and performs unique, creative concerts, that inspire and educate their audience to the mission and importance of the chosen non-profit organizations. Fluidity will perform on April 13th a concert to benefit Faith Communities Go Green, a collaboration with Green Umbrella, our region’s premiere environmental organization and EquaSion, our region’s premiere interfaith organization.
Faith Communities Go Green partners with religious communities to create a more sustainable and equitable future for all by mobilizing their moral voice to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change by integrating care for our world in their lives and society. Hear from Faith Communities Go Green leaders about their engagement with communities representing all faiths and ethnic backgrounds, working for all generations, to becoming better stewards of the Earth, our common home.
Join us for refreshments following the concert.
First Lutheran Church, 1208 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tickets go on sale March 1, 2024, here:
https://tickets.chorusconnection.com/fluidity/events/962
Tickets are $25 each. Seating is limited.
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
Please register HERE!
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
