The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
Anya 
Friday, September 29th, 2023, 7:00 -8:30 pm in the Social Hall
Improv games and theater sports with UU friends! No experience necessary. Participation in the games is entirely voluntary. You can simply sit back and enjoy the merriment if you wish.
Hosted by Jim Whiting, Priscilla Galasso, and Anya Ballinger
Connect Up event – connect@uucorvallis.org
Tribal Clean Energy Programs Will Benefit From New Tax Credits
RFP – Geothermal development strategy in Lakeview, Oregon
The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
LanzaTech: ‘We’re converting pollution into packaging’
Wealthy oil nation lays groundwork for ‘eye-popping’ climate fund
Wind-powered cargo ship sets sail in a move to make shipping greener
ClearVue releases results from first long-term study of clear solar glass
This Solar Farm in California Promises 225 GWh of Energy for EVs
Solar Up 20X, Fossil Fuel Use Down In California
University of Cincinnati founds School of Environmental and Sustainability Studies
MANUFACTURA AND LA METROPOLITANA USE 3D PRINTING TO TURN WASTE WOOD INTO SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURES
Bringing sustainable and affordable electricity to all
Growing The Geothermal Energy Workforce — 1st Cohort In US DOE’s INTERN Program
Colorado Adopts Its First Building Energy Performance Standard
If you have only 10 minutes this month to do something about climate change, you can still make a significant impact! Join with thousands of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) members and advocate for climate solution legislation. CCL is specifically asking members of Congress to cosponsor the Increased TSP Access Act (S.1400/H.R.3036), which already has both Republican and Democratic support.
What is TSP Access and why is it relevant to climate change? Farmers, ranchers, and forest-owners are on the front lines of climate change, and they can also play a large role in mitigating its effects through resilient and climate-smart practices. We must make sure that farmers, ranchers, and forest-owners have access to the technical expertise they need to fully utilize agricultural and forestry conservation programs.
Technical Service Providers (TSPs) are certified workers who help people understand and use federal climate-smart agriculture and conservation programs. This bi-partisan bill would address the shortage of Technical Service Providers, making it easier for farmers and forest-owners to take advantage of federal conservation programs that keep their land resilient and healthy.
Take action now by writing a quick email to your members of Congress asking them to cosponsor.
There is no more important climate work than the influencing of legislation and policy, whether at the national, state, or local level. Climate Action Opportunities, refreshed weekly on Saturdays, provides three or four curated, quick opportunities to do just that.
To help assess the engagement of UUFC members and friends in faith-based climate action and to encourage such action, please anonymously <Share> the number of the actions below you take this week. Optionally, you may anonymously also share other recent climate action.
The organizations whose calls to action we amplify, and the number from each organization, are listed <here>
Sat 26 Aug
Protect Kelp Forests: America’s kelp forests provide crucial habitat for wildlife including seals, sea otters and octopuses. But warming oceans, pollution and unchecked populations of kelp-eating sea urchins are rapidly degrading these underwater forests. We’re calling on President Biden to conserve all of our country’s kelp forests. Send a message to the president
Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards: Passenger vehicles are a major contributor to climate pollution. This year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the opportunity to propose new federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for vehicles sold in 2027 and beyond. Submit your comment to NHTSA
Conserve America’s Forests: Catastrophic wildfires, pests and diseases are decimating forest land across the country. Without stronger conservation policies and programs, we could lose even more. Without healthy forests, the clean air and water, habitat, recreation and timber they provide is at risk. Their loss would be a massive blow to the economy and a setback in the fight to store carbon and keep climate change in check. That’s why The Nature Conservancy is calling on Congress to support strong forest conservation programs in the upcoming Farm Bill. Email your U.S. Senators & Representative.
Sat 26 Aug
Energy & Environment Leader
Article: Should We Bet Big On Carbon Capture and Storage?
CarbonCredits.com
Article: Is the Money and Attention Given to Carbon Capture and Storage Worth It? An Expert Debate
The Guardian
Article: Why carbon capture and storage will not solve the climate crisis anytime soon
Tue 29 Aug, 1:00 PM, online
Federal Clean Energy Funding: Our UU faith calls us to work to ensure the people most impacted by climate change benefit most from clean energy funds. Join Sylvia Chi, Just Solutions Collective; Sonia Kikeri, Emerald Cities Collaborative; Jamal Lewis, Rewiring America; and Miguel Yanez, Energy and Environmental Study Institute to learn how your congregation can put your faith into action to advance visionary approaches to clean energy funding with justice at the center. Register
Thu 7 Sep, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, online
Inflation Reduction Act Resources to Help You Electrify Your Home:
Interfaith Power and Light Webinar. Jamal Lewis, Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification for Rewiring America, joins us for a conversation on electrification, what it looks like, and what federal resources are available to help you do it. Learn more about the incentives that will be available to help make your home healthier and more efficient. Register
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Friday, September 15, 2023 7:30 pm
See Rachel Kohler onstage in another rollicking Shakespearean production. Will she be in a wheelchair? That is a story for another time!
Buy tickets online: merelyplayersoregon.com
A group from UUFC are going to sit together. Contact Priscilla Galasso for more info.
Good news is a powerful motivator for action, & there‘s lots of good news about climate mitigation, adaptation/resilience, and justice. .
Indigenous knowledge holders share thousands of observations on the changing Arctic in a new study
U.S. to restore more bison herds on tribal lands by tapping Indigenous knowledge
Including Native knowledge in climate science
WHO to host first global workshop on biodiversity, traditional knowledge, health and well-being
Maxeon is going to open a 3 GW solar factory in New Mexico
First Solar, the US’s largest solar panel maker, to spend $1.1B on its 5th factory
Mission Possible: Northeast Ohio business designs solution to wind industry’s turbine blade problem
Advanced transmission technologies help U.S. utilities update the power grid
Could Reuse Be the Future of Wine Packaging?
Microsoft Agrees To 14 Ton SAF Purchase With IAG
How This Luxury Hotel Brand Is Making On-Site Events More Sustainable
UK homes install ‘record number’ of solar panels and heat pumps
In effort to cut costs, remote Alaskan village turns to renewable energy
35-MW Menengai geothermal power plant, Kenya starts grid supply
There is no more important climate work than the influencing of legislation and policy, whether at the national, state, or local level. Climate Action Opportunities, refreshed weekly on Saturdays, provides three or four curated, quick opportunities to do just that.
To help assess the engagement of UUFC members and friends in faith-based climate action and to encourage such action, please anonymously <Share> the number of the actions below you take this week. Optionally, you may anonymously also share other recent climate action.
The organizations whose calls to action we amplify, and the number from each organization, are listed <here>
Sat 19 Aug
Carbon price and dividend. Pricing carbon will drive energy innovation, giving every American community access to abundant, affordable clean energy at a predictable price. Email your members of Congress
Protect and strengthen our forests, food and agricultural systems. The bipartisan Increased TSP Access Act (S.1400/H.R.3036) has been introduced in the Senate and the House with bipartisan support. The act will (a) help farmers, ranchers and forest-owners access critical conservation programs, (b) empower producers to put climate-smart programs into practice on their own land. Email your members of Congress
Keep pollution out of Hawai‘i’s coral reefs. We have long fought alongside the communities of Maui. Right now, we have an opportunity to support Maui residents in their decades-long effort to uphold the Clean Water Act. Since the 1980s, Maui County’s Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility has discharged millions of gallons of treated sewage into groundwater every day that reaches the coral reef off Kahekili Beach, an area traditionally called Hāʻenanui. In 2012, Earthjustice and our partners sued the county under the Clean Water Act to hold Maui County accountable for its pollution. Now we can finally do something about it. Message the Hawai’i State Dept. Of Health
Of Note This Week is a source for current climate-change information at the local, state, and national levels. It is refreshed weekly on Saturday.
Politico
Article: Montana judge sides with youth in historic climate trial
The Conversation
Yahoo!Finance
Save the Date is your calendar of upcoming climate-related events and activities.
Thu 7 Sep, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, online
Inflation Reduction Act Resources to Help You Electrify Your Home
Interfaith Power and Light Webinar. Jamal Lewis, Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification for Rewiring America, joins us for a conversation on electrification, what it looks like, and what federal resources are available to help you do it. Learn more about the incentives that will be available to help make your home healthier and more efficient. Register
Our Pop-up Parking Lot Rummage Sale is Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 10:00 – 1:00. Look now through your garage, closets, and shelves to find things to sell. We are not having a recycled gifts room at the Holiday Fair, so this is your best opportunity to donate items you no longer need to benefit the Fellowship. Sellers price their own items, monitor their tables, send buyers to the UUFC checkout, and take home anything not sold at the end. Easy-peasy and a fun social event too! Seller/Vendor Registration Link
Volunteers are needed for this event: people to bring tables and chairs from the building and set them up beforehand and take them down at the end, and at least 2 cashiers. Volunteer Registration Link
Contact Bonnie Morihara, moriharb@ wou.edu
or Judy Westlake, judywestlake@ comcast.net.
Good news is a powerful motivator for action, & there‘s lots of good news about climate mitigation, adaptation/resilience, and justice.
Biden’s green energy law is turning out to be huge
133 self-storage rooftops in 3 US states are about to power community solar
Year after Biden’s climate bill sees spike in renewable energy investment, industry says
Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe acquires 855 acres of ancestral lands
Clean energy can fuel the future — and make the world healthier
Solar, wind provided majority of new US generating capacity in first half of 2023
Offshore floating solar on calm seas could provide unlimited energy
Heatwave energy shortages would have been ‘much worse’ without solar power, experts say
Supercapacitor cement could supercharge renewable energy storage
The potential for geologic hydrogen for next-generation energy
Rivian backs massive solar plant atop old coal mine in Kentucky
How a Former Oil Guy Is Using Fracking Tech to Boost Geothermal Energy
Geothermal technology breakthrough in Nevada could boost the nation’s use of renewable energy
Hello Climate Solutions Advocates!
Remember HB 2021, Oregon’s 100% Clean Energy bill, which with your help was passed by the Oregon legislature in 2021? Among other things, HB 2021 created a $50 million fund, the Community Renewable Energy Grant Program, to support projects in Oregon communities that would bolster renewable energy and strengthen resilience in the event of an emergency.
Recently, the Oregon Department of Energy selected 39 recipients to receive a total of $12 million in round two from the Community Renewable Energy Grant Program funds. A variety of renewable energy and resilience projects in counties across state were represented – solar, geothermal, biogas, and micro-hydro projects, as well as paired battery storage.
One example of a funded project was to the Phoenix Talent School District, which will receive $1 million to install a ground-mounted solar installation with battery storage at Talent Middle School. The installation will act as an operable microgrid in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency, ensuring the building – which will act as a local emergency shelter – retains critical backup power.
At least half of the $50 million grant funds will be awarded for projects that serve environmental justice communities, including communities of color, lower-income communities, and rural communities.
Together our advocacy actions do make a difference — making life better for us all!
Deborah Clark, member UUFC Climate Action
There is no more important climate work than the influencing of legislation and policy, whether at the national, state, or local level. Climate Action Opportunities, refreshed weekly on Saturdays, provides three or four curated, quick opportunities to do just that.
To help assess the engagement of UUFC members and friends in faith-based climate action and to encourage such action, please anonymously <Share> the number of the actions below you take this week. Optionally, you may anonymously also share other recent climate action.
The organizations whose calls to action we amplify, and the number from each organization, are listed <here>
Sat 12 Aug
Restore the Endangered Species Act. The Biden administration just moved closer to undoing the Trump administration’s unprecedented damage to the regulations that interpret the Endangered Species Act. For 50 years, the Act’s served as the last line of defense for countless species and habitats. Today, it is our strongest tool for tackling the worsening biodiversity crisis, which is why the Biden administration must fix the rules that implement it.
Protect the Grand Canyon. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument Act has been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to protect the Grand Canyon region’s sacred and natural resources, manage hunting and grazing, and establish a 12-member tribal commission to ensure tribal co-stewardship. Despite a 20-year uranium mining moratorium, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims by Tribes and environmental groups attempting to stop Energy Fuels Nuclear Inc. from mining the Pinyon Plain Mine on this land. It’s critical we fight for the permanent protections granted by designating more than 1.1 million acres within the Grand Canyon as a new national monument. Send a message to your U.S. Senators & Representative
Stop Yazoo Pumps Project. Yet again, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced an unprecedented move to resurrect the destructive Yazoo Backwater Pumps in Mississippi’s South Delta by fast tracking efforts to approve the project. If allowed, the Yazoo Pumps project would drain and destroy up to 200,000 acres of wetlands, some of our nation’s richest habitat that supports over 450 species of birds, fish and wildlife. Even worse, the project would not protect communities and only benefit a small number of wealthy agricultural corporations. Communities plagued by flooding in the Mississippi Delta deserve smart safeguards that keep people and property out of harm’s way, such as elevating homes and roads, and compensating farmers to restore cropland to wetlands! Submit your comment
American Prospect
Article: The Unholy Alliance Between ‘Certified’ Clean Natural Gas Producers and the Certifying Companies
Citizens Climate Lobby
Native News Online
Article: The Fight for Oak Flat: Indigenous voices in the green energy transition
Washington PostArticle: Is it cheaper to refuel your EV battery or gas tank? We did the math in all 50 states. Spoiler: In all 50 states, it’s cheaper for the everyday American to fill up with electrons — and much cheaper in some regions such as the Pacific Northwest, with low electricity rates and high gas prices.
Sun 13 Aug, 5:30 – 6:30 PM, Common Fields, 545 SW 3rd St
Finding Fish in the Willamette River: Do you wonder what is swimming below the surface as you fish or float the Willamette River? Learn about the native, invasive, rare, and cryptic species in the fish community, and what they tell us about the ecological health of a Corvallis water source. Presented by Dr. Brooke Penaluna, a Research Fisheries Biologist with the Forest Service. All day (11 am – 8 pm), enjoy tasty food and drink, and Common Fields will donate 10% of dine-in & takeout sales to support Willamette Riverkeeper.
Contact/Info: linktr.ee/500WomenScientists_Corvallis
Sponsor: 500 Women Scientists Corvallis
Thu 25 Aug 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Share and Discuss: Postponed
Thu 7 Sep, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, online
Inflation Reduction Act Resources to Help You Electrify Your Home Interfaith Power and Light Webinar. Jamal Lewis, Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification for Rewiring America, joins us for a conversation on electrification, what it looks like, and what federal resources are available to help you do it. Learn more about the incentives that will be available to help make your home healthier and more efficient. Register
Come and join in fun and fellowship while camping at Cascadia State Park. A group site has been reserved with a limit of 25 campers. Plans include group meals on Friday and Saturday evening, time for hiking, exploring, building community, and much more. Only tent camping is available at the site. Bring your own tent, personal gear, and food. Carpools are encouraged. Cascadia State Park is about 50 miles from Corvallis.
September 14th – 17th, (Thursday – Sunday)
Come out for all or part of the event. More information will be available with registration confirmation.
Completion of registration form and payment of $15 per person (max $45 for family) is required. Space is limited.
Questions: contact Julie Halter or Nancy Gill
Payment by check to UUFC with “Cascadia Camping” in the memo line.
Click here to register: Registration Link
Join us on Labor Day – Monday, September 4th for the return of the Tuna Roast. This is a family friendly picnic gathering at the Lions Shelter in the SE corner of Avery Park. Come for games and visiting at 4:00 pm, food at 5:00 pm.
Grilled Fresh Tuna, potatoes and corn on the cob will be provided. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share. You are also encouraged to bring your own picnic plates, silverware and cups to reduce waste, along with lawn chairs. There will be games and activities for all ages!
There will be no Sunday service on August 3 – the Tuna Roast therefore serves as a kind of in-gathering. Reverend Jill will lead us in song and words of intention around 5:00 pm.
Volunteers are needed in a variety of roles: help marinate and grill tuna, clean and cook corn on the cob, help with set up, pick-up truck(s) needed to haul tables and extra grill, assist with activities, help with tear down and clean up. 20-30 people will be needed to help make this event the best one ever! Set up begins at 3:00 pm.
Email greet@uucorvallis.org with any questions.
This event is for UUFC members, friends and their loved ones. We welcome a small donation of $5 per person, although no one will be turned away.