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Climate and Our Money: How to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels (Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle)
November 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Climate and Our Money: How to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
Tuesday, November 2, 7-8:15 PM on Zoom
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The Durham Friends Meeting’s Earth Care Witness Committee (Quaker) invites you to a Zoom moderated forum on Tuesday, November 2, 2023, 7-8:15 PM about how we, as individuals and as faith communities, can help push back against climate change through our financial decisions. Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle is co-sponsoring the forum.
Jennie Ratcliffe, the author of Nothing Lowly in the Universe: An Integral Approach to the Ecological Crisis will speak to:
- the spiritual ground of our concern about the climate crisis,
- current and planned fossil fuel investments around the world, and
- why individually divesting from fossil fuels, supporting divestment campaigns, and reinvesting in environmentally responsible funds, are among the most effective environmental actions we can take.
Dale Evarts, formerly of EPA’s climate and international group and currently active in climate activism, will cover:
- examples from financial institutions to corporations that fund and support the fossil fuel industry,
- practical tips on how individuals and congregations can divest our financial assets (credit cards, bank accounts, investments) from the financial institutions that fund fossil fuels, and
- ways to sign up with national movements aiming to enlist hundreds of thousands of people in this effort.
All participants are encouraged to read over A Guide to Fossil Fuel Divestment and Reinvestment before or after the presentation. These resources direct you to all the tools and information you need to get involved! This guide was prepared by Jennie Ratcliffe and members of the Earth Care Witness Committee, Durham Friends Meeting, in March, 2023.
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