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Archive / Videos
If you missed an online session, check out our archives below, or visit our YouTube Channel. As well, this page also contains important supplemental videos, such as the talk by President Veazey on the importance of the issue of climate change. For convenience, we start with the most recent video; following that they are listed by Date.
SESSION ARCHIVES:
June 13, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Transforming to a Circular Economy, Lugano Kapembwa
Sept. 19, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Consumerism !
Oct. 17, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Climate Policies 101
Nov. 14, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Communities Making a Difference
Dec. 31, 2021 - Jan. 1, 2022: Prayer Vigil
Jan. 09, 2022: Systemic Solutions: Glasgow and Climate Policies 201 October 16, 2022: Deep Gladness Meets Climate Action
Additional Topics and Perspectives
This section contains additional topics and perspectives - sometimes eclectic - not always covered in the main sessions. This section is included because: (a) climate change is such an all-encompassing issue that the main sessions cannot adequately cover all subject matter; and (b) we believe in Diversity and thus this section allows a broader set of perspectives which should enable a resonance with a wider audience.
MOST RECENT VIDEO
[If the video directly below is not what you want, the remaining archived videos are listed further below, by Date, starting with the earliest ones)]
March 26, 2023: Climate Impacts on Global Security
- Description: Dr. David Anderson, with his academic background in international policy, his personal military experience, and his knowledge of NATO, brings a global aspect to this issue, not just a USA perspective. In many countries, it isn’t just the military but the entire foreign affairs/defense policy establishments that are aware of climate crises and engaging in the preparations to deal with the resulting instability. David explores the ways climate intersects with and amplifies the global threats in today’s world.
- Attributions from video [PDF}: In Their Welfare Sources & Attributions
- Chats: Chats
SESSION ARCHIVES:
Phase 1: The Sacredness of Creation (Sessions during the summer and fall of 2020)
Session 1: Nature as Refuge and Solace, Especially During This Time of Pandemic (video to come)
Session 3: Holy Attention to Awaken the Heart
Session 4: Envision Hope, Build Bridges to the Future
Climate Change Meditations on Genesis
{These brief meditations from Sessions 1 to 4, remind us of our place within all Creation.
Revisit these whenever you feel the desire to reconnect or re-anchor
your sense of Creation and your place within it!}
Phase 2: From Crises to Transformation: The Science and Implications of Climate Change
Nov. 15, 2020: The Basic Science of Climate Change, Dr. Richard Gammon
- Description: Princeton- and Harvard-educated Dr. Gammon, kicks off this part of our series with the basic science on Climate Change, its dire consequences, and hopeful rays to move forward. Dr. Gammon was the co-author of the very first IPCC report (carbon cycle) in 1990. He had previously worked as NOAA's Program Chief for carbon dioxide.
- Nov. 19: Discussion Group on Dr. Gammon Presentation
- Podcast: 349: Introduction To The Series
- Podcast: 352: The Basic Science and Implications, Dr. Richard Gammon
- Description: Dr. Gammon returns to discuss personal and governmental responses to the climate crisis, and the injustices involved.
- Jan. 24: Discussion Group on Mitigating Climate Change, and Dialogue with Steve Veazey
Feb. 14, 2021: Panel: Engaging the Faith Community
June 13, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Transforming to a Circular Economy, Lugano Kapembwa
- June 27: Discussion Group on: Systemic Solutions: Transforming to a Circular Economy
- Podcast: 457: Transforming to a Circular Economy
Sept. 19, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Consumerism !
- Full clip: Christian Skoorsmith
- Full clip: Brody Sargeant
- Sept. 26: Discussion Group on Systemic Solutions: Consumerism
Oct. 17, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Climate Policies 101
- Oct. 17: PDF of Slides of Climate 101 Session
- Oct. 24: Discussion Group on Climate Policies 101
- Podcast: {See January 9, 2022, below}
Nov. 14, 2021: Systemic Solutions: Communities Making a Difference
- Full Clip: Congregation Landscape for Drought-Tolerance, CA, Aaron Richards
- Full Clip: Campground Landscape, Lawns, and Butterflies, MI, Linda Stanbridge
- Full Clip: Congregation Green Team Projects; Water & Political Pressure, MI, Sarah Allen
- Full Clip: Campground Energy Audit and Eco. Projects, Samish Is., WA, John VandenWalker
- Full Clip: Congregation Energy Efficiency; Partnering; and Rain Garden, MI, Dan Nowiski
- Full Clip: Plant-based Lifestyle, ON, Canada, Jim & Janet Poirier
- Clip: Congregation Getting Started; Food Hedge; Beyond Church, ON, Canada, Joan Thompson
- Clip: Congregations and Solar Panels, MI, Dan Nowiski
- Clip: Being Leaven in Community Groups, MI, Sarah Allen
- Clip: Congregation: Nature Club Every Second Sunday, FL, Mike Barnett
- Clip: Congregation: Pollinator Garden, BC, Canada, Rod Downing
- Template for Pollinator and Other Gardens (PDF) (Editable .DOCX)
Dec. 31, 2021 - Jan. 1, 2022: Prayer Vigil
- To view the schedule and descriptions of each session, go to Prayer Vigil Schedule;
- Videos coming soon;
Jan. 09, 2022: Systemic Solutions: Glasgow and Climate Policies 201
- Jan 23, 2022: Discussion Group for: Glasgow and Climate Policies 201
- Podcast: 504: Climate Policies 101, 201 and COP26, Glasgow
- Templates to Write Authorities about Divestment
- Templates to Write your Representatives about Methane Reduction (See Oct. 16 session)
- Document of Matrix of a wide variety of Possible Actions to Take (PDF)
- September 25, 2022: Climate Crises and Sacred Spaces: Our Campgrounds? Part 2
- Chats From September 25
- Description: Dr. Mark I. Wallace explores questions about the spiritual & physical relationships between us (human creatures), God (the Living Spirit in all things), and all creatures and Creation. Drawing on his Indigenous sensitivities, biblical scholarship, and work as a Christian eco-theologian, Dr. Wallace shares his experiences & thoughts on “Christian animism” and ways that we, too, might experience the re-enchantment of the world.
- Download (PDF): Chats, a Poem and Further Comments
- Description: Dr. David Anderson, with his academic background in international policy, his personal military experience, and his knowledge of NATO, brings a global aspect to this issue, not just a USA perspective. In many countries, it isn’t just the military but the entire foreign affairs/defense policy establishments that are aware of climate crises and engaging in the preparations to deal with the resulting instability. David explores the ways climate intersects with and amplifies the global threats in today’s world.
- Attributions from video [PDF}: In Their Welfare Sources & Attributions
- Chats: Chats
OTHER VIDEOS:
Global Church Members Affected by Climate Change
Additional Topics and Perspectives
This section contains additional topics and perspectives - sometimes eclectic - not always covered in the main sessions. This section is included because: (a) climate change is such an all-encompassing issue that the main sessions cannot adequately cover all subject matter; and (b) we believe in Diversity and thus this section allows a broader set of perspectives which should enable a resonance with a wider audience.
OTHER RESOURCES:
The Gift of a Poem: The following poem, created for us by Karen Kunkel, was gifted to us for our Climate series: A Bridge of Hope. (Basic PDF text is Here);