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Covenant of the Salmon People: Film and Discussion

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Produced in collaboration with the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Tribe, Covenant of the Salmon People is a 60-minute film exploring how the Nimiipuu people’s relationship to salmon has shaped them. As the oldest documented civilization in North America, the Nimiipuu date back over 16,000 years to a creation story that is an agreement to protect salmon and speak on their behalf. The covenant with salmon is woven into Nimiipuu culture, history, and now their modern-day species restoration work. This covenant is being impacted by the widespread construction of dams across Nimiipuu traditional lands, prompting questions: Will the work of the Nimiipuu be enough? How can we help?

Meaningful Movies: Evergreen

Online Event

In February, Meaningful Movies Bellevue will screen Evergreen, from Bullfrog Films. In this film, we meet Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson, who have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, just north of Seattle. Through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN), Edain and Erickson have monitored county applications for development and logging; challenged projects that violate state environmental law and led the way in science-based environmental public policymaking. In partnership with citizens and communities up and down Whidbey Island, they have helped keep trees standing and protected sensitive island ecosystems. Join us for this inspiring film and learn what is happening right here in Puget Sound to help protect our natural world. Plan to join via Zoom to find out what you can do to help support this work!

Earth Renewal Sharing Session

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Care about climate action, and what we at East Shore can do about it? Come share your ideas with us at the Earth & Climate Action Sharing session! The Earth and Climate Action Ministry is compiling input from all over our church communities on how we at East Shore can make an impact on our world in new, coordinated and powerful ways. We'll be having a general feedback sharing session after church on March 17. We want to hear from you, so it will be an interactive discussion. No presentations, just sharing common passions and purpose to heal the Earth

Climate Celebration

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

On April 21, after the Earth Day Service, the Earth and Climate Action Ministry invites you to join us for a Climate Action Celebration. This event will share our members' joint vision for East Shore climate action, intertwined with live original music and multimedia video of beautiful natural scenes. Music by John Chmaj and an all-East Shore ensemble. Come join us and help heal our planet!

Meaningful Movies: Living the Change

Online Event

Please join us for our free screening of Living the Change, a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to global crises we face today. Inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and their communities show us how we can all live sustainably and in a regenerative way. Directors Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson weave stories from their travels together with interviews that showcase experts explaining how we came to be where we are today. From forest gardens to composting toilets, community supported agriculture to timebanking, Living the Change offers ways for each of us to rethink our approach to how we live.

Event Series Climate Justice Revival

Climate Justice Revival

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

Our congregation is joining UUs across the land to revive our commitment to climate justice. Together with our peers, all of us will learn new climate justice frameworks and weave together the threads of our deepest commitments.

Cooked: Survival By Zip Code

Online Event

East Shore’s Climate Action Ministry, with the support of Meaningful Movies is proud to present a documentary about our climate and the possibility of serious consequences for many of the marginalized communities in our world.

Youth Climate Con

Off Site WA, United States

Climate Con is a weekend gathering for UU high school students from Puget Sound area congregations, focused on climate justice.

Meaningful Movies Bellevue: Ecosophia

Online Event

Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for Ecosophia, a 2023 release from Bullfrog Films. Some of the wisest ecological minds come together in this documentary for an honest appraisal of our civilization without greenwash. Ecosophia -- a  term first used by French philosopher Félix Guttari and deep ecologist Arne Naess — means ecological wisdom. Ecosophia explores the interrelationship between energy, the economy, resources, population, psychology, spirituality, the biosphere, the limits to growth and climate change in an honest appraisal of our civilization and sustainability. A simpler world is coming, and what's needed is as much a spiritual revolution as a physical one.

No on I-2117 Sing In

Raise your voice for a 30 joyful minutes of songs, signs, and protest against I-2117! From 12:30 - 1:00 p.m., join a community of earth lovers for an exuberant expression of support for the Climate Commitment Act and street-theater-like sing-in against I-2117.

Meaningful Movies Bellevue: Meat the Future

Online Event

Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for Meat the Future, a 2020 release from Bullfrog Films. Imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction, it's now within reach. At the forefront of this urgent frontier is Mayo Clinic trained cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of Upside Foods (previously Memphis Meats), the leading start-up of the "cultivated" meat revolution. Come and watch a film that will get you thinking about a major food source that impacts not only you but the environment and climate change. 

Meaningful Movies Bellevue: Reflection – A Walk with Water

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Join Meaningful Movies Bellevue for Reflection – A Walk with Water, a 2022 release from Bullfrog Films. Filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks the length of the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for - what he discovers has everything to do with water. The conditions that make life possible are rapidly changing. Reckoning with this reality on the cusp of a record-setting dry season, filmmaker Emmett Brennan embarks on a powerful journey to find stories of hope and healing. Reflection – A Walk with Water will be followed immediately with a discussion about issues the film brings up.

Event Series East Shore Reads: Serviceberry

East Shore Reads: Serviceberry

Online Event

Earth & Climate Action Ministry (ECAM) and the Indigenous Connections Team invite you to a two-part discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book, The Serviceberry. Kimmerer takes the wisdom of Braiding Sweetgrass a step further and asks how we can reimagine our economic systems by incorporating a philosophy of abundance, reciprocity, and balance. The Serviceberry is an invitation to shift our thinking: What does it mean to live in a gift economy? How can indigenous wisdom and ecological systems inform us?

Event Series East Shore Reads: Serviceberry

East Shore Reads: Serviceberry

Online Event

Earth & Climate Action Ministry (ECAM) and the Indigenous Connections Team invite you to a two-part discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s new book, The Serviceberry. Kimmerer takes the wisdom of Braiding Sweetgrass a step further and asks how we can reimagine our economic systems by incorporating a philosophy of abundance, reciprocity, and balance. The Serviceberry is an invitation to shift our thinking: What does it mean to live in a gift economy? How can indigenous wisdom and ecological systems inform us?

Discussion on “What We Think About “ (When we try NOT to think about) Global Warming”

East Shore Unitarian Church 12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA, United States

The Earth and Climate Action Ministry Team is hosting an informal discussion about how to rethink how we approach climate action. Our discussion will be based on a great book by Per Espen Stoknes on this topic : “What We Think About “ (When we try NOT to think about) Global Warming”. He identifies 5 key implicit assumptions that inhibit our ability to take positive, proactive climate action.