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Creation Care Covenant of Commitment

• Adopted by the Cabinet on February 15, 2021

Guiding Documents

• Jim Antal, Climate Church, Climate World
• NRSV, The Green Bible

Guiding Organizations and Programs

• UCC - Creation Justice Churches
• UCC - A Kairos Call to Action - 10 year Mobilization on Climate and Inequality
• DOC - Green Chalice Program
  • Application for Green Chalice Certification (gives you an idea of what we’ve been doing to live out our Creation Care Covenant of Commitment): View

NDC Climate Actions

• Alison Mountford, CEO and Owner of ends & stems, gave a wonderful presentation about food waste and how to address it.
  • Watch the presentation: Food Waste
  • Website: https://endsandstems.com/
  • YouTube Channel: ends+stems
• The Green Team had an excellent speaker for the NDC Green Challenge on how to buy carbon offsets for Air travel (a huge carbon emitter.) Watch this presentation here . You can buy carbon offsets for your next air trip (and other carbon emitting activities) at Green Mountain Energy
  • Carbon Offsets Slides
• Noah Cordoba of East Bay Community Energy gave a presenation on Efficient and electric homes. Here are links to his presentation:
  
  • Efficient and electric homes PDF file
  • Efficient and electric homes Power Point Presentation
• NDC Joins One Trillion Trees. See our pledge here: NDC Pledge to 1t.org
  • NDC will continue its commitment to Climate Action by being stewards of the land in Fremont and the Tri-Cities. Together with Tri-City Ecology Center (TCEC) and the Tri-City Urban Forest Alliance (TUFA), we will plant trees to combat global warming and climate change.
  • Want to plant trees with American Forests, but don't need a certificate? For every dollar you donate, a tree will be planted in a priority threatened forest that we are working hard to restore and preserve.
    Visit American Forests for more information.
• Raising the Alarm - March 11, 2021

Peoples’ Kairos Moments heard in our worship services:

• Home Resource Conservation
• Reading Through a Green Lens
• Revelation
• Biodiversity
• Being a Faith Climate Justice Voter
• Animal Stress due to Climate Change
• Mountains
• Gardens
• The Earth is the Lord’s, Not Ours to Wreck
• John Muir
• Planting a Seed for Conservation
• Springtime Flowers
• The Universe
• Green Challenge
• One of the 15 Commandments
• How to Save Energy
• Bicycling
• Forest Bathing
• Food and Waste
• Stop Line 3
• Success of the NDC Green Challenge
• Presentation on TUFA
• Water Tips
• The Beauty of Trees
• Carbon Offsets for Air Travel
• Planting Trees for Climate Change Mitigation
• How Climate Change Has Changed Me
• Save the Newark Wetlands
• Thank you!
• The Environmental Related Harm
• Recycling in Fremont
• Conserving Water in Alameda County
• Living History of the California Nursery
• Tree Planting Program
• Ecology of Animals
• The Issue with Tissue
• Third Act
• A Plant Based Diet
• The Climate Crisis
• Climate Hope Cards
• Youth as Leaders
• Our Recylcing Program
• Being Fully Present in the Moment
• Planet Planet vs Plastic
• It's So Easy Being Green at NDC

 

The Green Team Challenge

As part of our church’s efforts to reduce our environmental footprint, we are encouraging members and friends of our church to join our church community group in the Fremont Green Challenge.

Forty percent of emissions come from just 5 common household activities (transportation, electricity, food, heat, waste) that we all do every day, so household actions can really add up to a huge impact. From May through August 2021, our church is participating in its own Green Challenge. May is Sign-Up month. June is Transportation month. July is Heat/Electricity month. August is Food/Waste month.

The Fremont Green Challenge platform is easy to use and provides practical action items. You don’t need to be a Fremont resident to join. Use the link https://fremontgreenchallenge.org/community-group/join/8256.

Please consider joining the Niles Community Church community group anytime, even after our 2021 Summer Challenge is over.