New in 2025: 

Environmental and Climate Organizations You Can Support!

Climate change is one of the most important issues of our lifetime. There are so many great organizations out there working to support our planet, climate justice and more.  We know you want to connect with, or just be better informed about, these organizations.  Many of the organizations on this list were submitted by members of our Church community who have some information about them. We hope this list inspires you!

Here is our list of Environmental and Climate Organizations, or or you can email us to request a copy of this list be sent to you via email.

If you wish to add an organization to this list, please email us at greensteering@concorduu.org

Green Sanctuaries

Green Sanctuaries is a national Unitarian Universalist program with the goal of developing “a new mythology for a sustainable culture.” Our church participates in this program and became a certified Green Sanctuary in January 2009.

As part of the certification process we completed a comprehensive environmental audit of the church and engaged in many environmental activities from worship to eco-justice, including

• connecting our youth with nature
• leading earth-oriented worship services
• reducing the church’s energy consumption and waste generation
• leading eco-adult education classes
• encouraging local food production
• marching for climate action and
• generally having fun while “respecting the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part” (the 7th UU principle).

Since then:

In March 2013, we completed a “green overhaul” of our building, in which we upgraded the heating system, installed insulation, and replaced all the single-pane windows in the building.

In May, 2017, we turned on our solar array, right on the front lawn of the church.

In 2024 we compiled a new list of ideas, projects and priorities for the years ahead.