Presented by
Faith Communities Go Green and Green Umbrella
A free, virtual program
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
2:00 – 3:00pm ET
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Faith Communities Go Green is hosting Green Umbrella to introduce a powerful new effort to make our tri-state region increasingly sustainable, resilient, and healthy. In late July, Green Umbrella will launch the 25 Communities Project, a regional cohort of communities working together to reduce pollution and strengthen resilience. Join us to learn how community advocates can help their local governments discover the power to protect their communities and save money by developing and implementing sustainability plans.
Speakers: Ryan Mooney-Bullock, Executive Director of Green Umbrella and member of the Faith Communities Go Green Steering Team, and Bamidele Osamika, Green Umbrella’s Regional Climate Collaborative Manager, will include an overview of the technical assistance Green Umbrella provides to local governments, a success story, and specific ways that you and your congregation can help engage elected officials and public sector staff. The 25 Communities Project is an unprecedented opportunity to benefit your neighbors and the entire planet by adopting clean energy and energy efficiency, and reducing exposure to air pollution, dangerous heat, and flood damage.
Please attend to learn the critical role that faith communities have in this endeavor.
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A virtual screening of the educational version of the documentary,
Kiss the Ground,
a movie for the whole family to enjoy together.
Sunday afternoon, July 20, 2025
From 3:30 to 4:20 pm ET
Following the movie, from 4:20– 4:50 pm ET Join other FCGG families from around the country, to share what the movie means to the FCGG families and your family.
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In this movie, Kiss the Ground, it is revealed that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
Please register and join us for this viewing followed by discussion on how this movie inspired and impacted us.
Speaker: Brent Boyd, CEO, Solclusion
Via Zoom
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
7:00-8:30 pm
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The Ohio Legislature is overhauling state energy policy with two goals: increasing the supply and reliability of electricity and trying to keep it affordable. Electrical engineer Brent Boyd, one of Ohio’s leading solar entrepreneurs, will alert us to influential supporters of renewable energy. He will outline the “green + green” case that green energy solutions reduce operating expenses as well as protecting the environment. This is the first forum in Faith Communities Go Green’s 2025 series on broadening our advocacy beyond legislators.
FCGG is applying for a grant from the City of Cincinnati to pay for the next round of ASHARE Level 2 audit. This is for houses of worship that have facilities they own (not rent) and are within the City of Cincinnati boundary.
FCGG is seeking qualified houses of worship to participate in this grant opportunity.
An ASHRAE level 2 energy audit is required or recommended by many grantors for grant funding to make nonprofit facilities more energy efficient, enabling lower energy bills.
The Cincinnati grant deadline is soon. Interested houses of worship need to complete the FCGG no obligation Survey by April 18, 2025 to be considered. https://fcgg.org/survey/
Saturday, October 11, 9:00am – 4:30pm
Xavier University, Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45207
This conference is available for CEUs
Contact Jillian Foster at jfoster@catholicaoc.org for more information.
Keynote: Gale Worcelo
Program includes FCGG morning workshop: Reaching Across Pews: Interfaith Collaboration, Faith communities have a powerful voice to offer as the world confronts the climate crisis. Religious organizations and communities can become strong allies in the fight for climate action. All traditions emphasize the moral and ethical imperative to care for creation.
Individual efforts are important, but collaboration within and among congregations can bring about much greater change.
Register Here for the 2025 LAUDATO SI CONFERENCE:
https://resources.catholicaoc.org/offices/catholic-social-action/catholic-social-
teaching/laudato-si-main/laudato-si-conference-building-a-hope-filled-future-together
The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’ twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from
antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Register Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/uqEptGrrRvaj6oplu0hibQ
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