Tag: energy

  • “Fossil Fuels”: The New “F” Word

    “Fossil Fuels”: The New “F” Word

    COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels by Sharon Delgado Also published by United Methodist Insight. These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate change. COP 30 ended not only without the roadmap to

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  • Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Mission, Not the Money Managers

    Follow the Money, Not the Money Managers by Mark Davies The transformation of the world does not mean the destruction of the world or the destruction of a livable cimate for all life on earth. The United Methodist Church should not be investing and profiting from the fossil fuel companies that have created and are

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  • A Model Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution for Annual Conferences

    A Model Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution for Annual Conferences

    This post is a Model Resolution on Fossil Fuel Divestment from Fossil Free UMC and the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, with a substitute resolution to present as an amendment or substitute if Resolution 1 is strongly opposed and likely to fail. Resolution 1:   Divesting From Fossil Fuels as an Annual Conference. In addition,

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  • Next Step for UMC Net Zero Agencies: Divest from Fossil Fuels

    Next Step for UMC Net Zero Agencies: Divest from Fossil Fuels

    By Sharon Delgado Published in UM Creation Justice Movement’s February 2025 Newsletter “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21). In the above passage, Jesus tells us to value spiritual treasures above our material treasures. This passage also reminds us that how we use or invest our material treasures expresses our

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  • Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost

    Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost

    Fossil Fuels and Climate: Counting the Cost “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?”   Luke 14:28 When Jesus spoke these words, he was using the scenario of building a tower to illustrate the cost of

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  • Ten Reasons Divestment Matters to Us All: 10 raisons /  Vigezo 10 (khume) / 10 razões

    Ten Reasons Divestment Matters to Us All: 10 raisons / Vigezo 10 (khume) / 10 razões

    —In French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, & English 10 raisons pour les centrales de conférence de ne pas investir dans les énergies renouvelables (photo) L’accroissement du typhon met en danger la vie de la population. Les points ci-dessous qui seront explorer, on a été développés par l’énergie non renouvelable de l’église methodiste unie, se focalisant sur les

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