By the ELPC Environmental Team of the Justice Committee
In 2006, the General Assembly of PC(USA) adopted a resolution calling on every Presbyterian family to become carbon neutral.
What does it mean to be carbon neutral? There are CO2 emissions associated with our use of electricity, heating, and transportation, as well as the food we eat and products we buy. These emissions can be estimated using online carbon calculators, such as tiny.cc/CO2-calculator. Using your bills and/or approximate dollar amounts spent, one can get a fairly good sense of their carbon footprint.
The PC(USA) Guide to Going Carbon Neutral, tiny.cc/carbon-neutral, advises us to aim to reduce what we can of the emissions, and to purchase the offsets for the portion we cannot reduce each year. The need for these actions is even more urgent now, in 2019, than it was in 2006. Please consider what you can do.
Also, the Environmental Team will conduct an educational session on this topic before the end of the summer.