Climate change a hot topic at Earth Care event

350.org's May Boeve will lead conversation at First Congregational Church Oct. 30.|

The Earth Care Committee of First Congregational Church will host a conversation on the state of global climate movement, in light of the U.S. election, with May Boeve.

The discussion will be held at noon, Sunday, Oct. 30, at noon, in the sanctuary at the First Congregational Church, 252 W. Spain St., in Sonoma.

Boeve is the executive director of 350.org, an international climate change campaign. 350.org's creative communications, organizing, and mass mobilizations strive to generate the sense of urgency required to tackle the climate crisis.

Previously, Boeve co-founded and helped lead the 2007 'Step It Up' campaign, (urging the U.S. Congress to act on meaningful legislation to reduce global warming) and prior to that, was active in the campus climate movement while a student at Middlebury College. Boeve is the co-author of 'Fight Global Warming Now.'

Boeve grew up in the Sonoma Valley, and was a local high school reporter. Tim Boeve, chaplain and volunteer coordinator at Sonoma Raceway, is her father. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

John Donnelley, chair of the FCC Earth Care Committee, will facilitate the conversation and also address how concerned locals can join the growing number of Sonoma Valley Earth Care Advocates, an arm of the Earth Care Committee mobilized to address climate concerns by signing positions, writing letters, visiting legislatures and so on.

The Earth Care Committee of First Congregational Church exists to increase awareness about the interaction with the natural world and its consequences, creates venues for discussion about environmental issues, solutions and alternatives, focuses collective and individual actions to transform our society's unsustainable practices and inspires advocates and activists to protect and restore our local and global environment. To learn more about the ECC, visit the web page at sonomaucc.org/about-us/what-we-believe/earth-care.

Joining the ECC as a partner in the forum will be Transition Sonoma Valley along with representatives from 350 Sonoma, headquartered in Santa Rosa.

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