Cleaning up Eden: The Challenge of Climate Change (at First Pres. Palo Alto)
This study group will learn the why’s and how’s of climate change to determine what we can do to bring about change on a personal, regional, national and denominational level.
We will examine the effects of climate change on our local area and learn about how carbon and fossil fuels affect climate. We will find out how to calculate our carbon footprint and discover ways to change habits at home and work to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions. We will explore regional problems and solutions and learn what the church is doing and can do in the future.
This course will educate, inspire, and help people find a way to reverse the direction of climate change.
Sept 16: An Inconvenient Truth Hits Home. Will Travis, Executive Director of BCDC (SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission), will present a slideshow and speak about the probable impact of climate change on the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sept 23: Carbonomics 1A. Mathis Wackernagel, coauthor of Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, will discuss the role of carbon in global warming and the concept of ecological footprint.
Sept 30: Carbonomics 1B. Jennifer Martin, director at The Center for Resource Solutions, will help us understand such concepts as carbon offsets, carbon taxes, carbon auction, and cap and trade.
Oct 14: How is the Faith Community responding to the Challenge? Audrey de Coursey, from Interfaith Power and Light, will discuss their innovative programs.
Oct 21: How will we at First Pres respond to the Challenge? Michael Clossen from Acterra and members of the Cool Planet Working Group will lead focus groups on various directions our responses might take.
The study group will take place at First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto, at 9:30 am on the above dates.
The series is sponsored by the Cool Planet Working Group of First Presbyterian Church.
All are welcome.
For further information, please contact:
Susan Chamberlain at suschamberlain@hotmail.com.
We will examine the effects of climate change on our local area and learn about how carbon and fossil fuels affect climate. We will find out how to calculate our carbon footprint and discover ways to change habits at home and work to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions. We will explore regional problems and solutions and learn what the church is doing and can do in the future.
This course will educate, inspire, and help people find a way to reverse the direction of climate change.
Sept 16: An Inconvenient Truth Hits Home. Will Travis, Executive Director of BCDC (SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission), will present a slideshow and speak about the probable impact of climate change on the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sept 23: Carbonomics 1A. Mathis Wackernagel, coauthor of Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, will discuss the role of carbon in global warming and the concept of ecological footprint.
Sept 30: Carbonomics 1B. Jennifer Martin, director at The Center for Resource Solutions, will help us understand such concepts as carbon offsets, carbon taxes, carbon auction, and cap and trade.
Oct 14: How is the Faith Community responding to the Challenge? Audrey de Coursey, from Interfaith Power and Light, will discuss their innovative programs.
Oct 21: How will we at First Pres respond to the Challenge? Michael Clossen from Acterra and members of the Cool Planet Working Group will lead focus groups on various directions our responses might take.
The study group will take place at First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto, at 9:30 am on the above dates.
The series is sponsored by the Cool Planet Working Group of First Presbyterian Church.
All are welcome.
For further information, please contact:
Susan Chamberlain at suschamberlain@hotmail.com.
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