green sanctuary
Climate Change
As part of this work, the SJC encourages members of our congregation to join the efforts of climate change groups in their respective towns and communities to work on this issue. In Hingham, Hingham NetZero is the major group working on climate change. Information about their work can be found at www.hinghamnetzero.org. 
All Church Read: How are Climate Change and White Supremacy Culture Connected? Join us for the Discussion at 7 p.m. on Sunday, February 4 on Zoom — We are asking the congregation to engage in an “all church” read of a book that connects these two issues that we have been focusing on as part of our social justice work. The book is Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Jeremy Williams. The author argues that climate change “is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White countries, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour.” This is a short, 163 page book and our hope is that many of you will read it and then gather with us on Sunday, February 4 from 7-8:30 p.m. on Zoom to talk about it. Here is the Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83348608149?pwd=wWAxZu0oqPw0O0YqHlo8yEqmaiAfkc.1.
Old Ship Reaccredited as a Green Sanctuary Congregation!
Old Ship has officially received Green Sanctuary Reaccreditation Status. Our application has been affirmed as "well-done and even exemplary". Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen. The letter confirming this status, the application for reaccreditation, and details for each project to achieve this status are show below.
Leadership Needed for the Green Sanctuary Program at Old Ship
We are looking for new leadership for Green Sanctuary. There are many aspects to the Green Sanctuary program—climate change issues, recycling issues, making sure our buildings at Old Ship are as green as possible. If this sounds like something you, or a group of you, would like to do, or to learn more about what is required, please contact Davalene Cooper, chair of SJC for the new church year. Green Sanctuary / 350MA Collaboration
In September 2013, our Old Ship Green Sanctuary Team, out of concern for the rapid advance of global warming and the uneven response nationally and in the community at large, decided to join forces with 350MA to actively confront barriers to the mitigation of climate change. Our mission is to bear witness to the dangers of global warming through demonstration; education, political activism (legislative and local), and respectful non-violent civil disobedience. Our local Old Ship Green Sanctuary / 350MA group serves as the “South Shore Node” of this growing statewide grassroots network of 12 regional chapters and managed by Better Future Project in Cambridge. We meet on the first and third Tuesday of the month in the Fellowship Hall of our Parish House. Contact Person: Turner Bledsoe, Connie Gorfinkle or Laura Burns 
Update (May 2020)
As Old Ship works to find ways to “Green” our parish house and reduce our carbon footprint and impact on climate change, we invite to consider and perhaps try new ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint. Hingham Net Zero, a citizen’s group working to reduce the town’s carbon footprint, has prepared a series of presentations and other materials to help residents learn how they can adopt a low carbon lifestyle and electric technologies thereby dramatically reducing personal/family carbon emissions. Anyone is welcome to go to the Hingham Net Zero website where you will find a menu of “What You Can Do Now” links to informational presentations as well as announcements of upcoming Zoom Chats on these topics 
Upcoming Events
First and Third Tuesdays of each Month: Green Sanctuary/350MA Group Meeting Our Green Sanctuary/350MA group meets the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 PM in the Fellowship Hall. For more information contact Turner Bledsoe, Connie Gorfinkle or Laura Burns Also, we are working actively with our Weymouth ally Friends of the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS). Additional Information
Article - Bill McKibben’s piece in the New Yorker (9/17/2019) "Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns: What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?" proposes that the fastest way to lower CO2 is targeting banks underwriting of Fossil Fuels.. See the 350. org newsletter for the campaigns to transfer investment from fossil fuels to renewables.
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