Pacific Mountain Regional Council is committed to ongoing education, advocacy, activism and policy development related to ecological justice and the impacts of climate change.
We are called to be resourceful, intentional, connected, and both inward- and outward-looking: let us live into this calling together.
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Climate Justice Updates ~ PMR Climate Audit underway
Pacific Mountain Climate Action Justice Network launched our PMR Climate Audit process in April 2024. The impetus for this work was the proposal: Get Rid of Greenhouse Gases, approved at the PMR Annual General Meeting in 2023, which was put forward by the PMR Youth Council for decision and action.
Working with the Green Action Centre, the PMR Climate Audit includes an in-depth investigation and analysis of the operations of the main office of the Pacific Mountain Region, and the transportation/commuting analysis for remote regional staff. The objectives are to get a ... Read more
Earth Week 2024
“For this is what the Lord says— God who created the heavens, only God is God; God who
fashioned and made the earth, God who founded it; God did not create it to be empty but
formed it to be inhabited— God says: ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.'”
- Isaiah 45:18
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Honouring Creation's Abundance
This Earth Week, let us renew our vision within creation and see both the beauty and responsibility of being human in God’s world.
The abundance of the Earth is a reflection both of the complexity of God’s being and the generosity of God’s grace. Our call is to live into honouring creation’s abundance with reverent celebration, rather than seeing it as resources exploit. EcoJustice and Climate Justice are part of God’s calling to the United Church, and particularly, we are called to witness the injustice in the ecosystems within which we make our lives.
Faithful witness to this injustice inevitably leads to the discipleship of deep questions and envisioning broad journeys. We must not lose heart in the face of steep climbs or clouded paths, we must begin. We are called to be in community with creation and with one another, we are called to begin where we are with what we have.
Our faith calls us to live with respect in creation. We are concerned that climate change, ocean change, lack of access to clean water, and resource extraction have a greater impact on the most impoverished and vulnerable living beings.
For the Love of Creation
For the Love of Creation has a wonderful resource for Earth Week, that you can find here. Including a directory and interactive map of Earth Week events; if you don’t have an event of your own planned yet, it’s not too late! Take inspiration from the events that are there, reach out to a sibling congregation or a community group, join an online event or hold a prayer circle. The sky is the limit, and remember each action, no matter how seemingly small, is another drop of water in the mighty rolling river.
Conference of the Parties (COP) 26
Took place in Glasglow, Scotland, from 31 October - 13 November, 2021.
All Saints Day at COP26
Tony Snow writes, "Wathuti’s ‘call to action’ can be seen in the light of the glacial speed the Indigenous ‘Calls to Action” have moved in Canada, where will is reluctant at best. And as warnings become more dire, we only see more debate, more obfuscation, more disinformation and more delay erupting in more and more turmoil. How can this hold us together as the world attempts to move toward a collective goal of temperance, respect and justice? Can it?
As communities of faith we see the moral choices ahead of us. We see the opportunities and the same obstructions that have placated our progress in the past. We must now search the lessons learned, the lessons of our recent past, the lessons of our collective past — lessons of unrest, lessons of inequality, lessons of our own shortcomings — if we are to position our response effectively. ..."
Read Tony's full post here.
Daily Seeds from COP26
A joint, eight-person ecumenical delegation of The United Church of Canada and For the Love of Creation has been virtually attending COP26, the UN Conference on Climate Change from October 31 – November 12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. These daily "seeds" have been shared with us by Janet Gray, one of two United Church delegates (along with Tony Snow). Janet is a long-time grassroots leader and climate activist who has been active with KAIROS and First Metropolitan United Church in Victoria, B.C. for many years.
https://united-church.ca/news/ecumenical-delegation-attending-cop26-virtually
