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For Climate
UUCC’s Green Sanctuary Committee leads a service marking the week of international Climate Action inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, and led by youth all around the world. (Sept. 20-27). Music, poetry, and reflection challenge us to think about changes we need at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels. The service will feature the UUCC…
In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
Speaker: Virginia Sanders
Virginia Sanders is a Sierra Club Healthy Communities environmental justice organizer. She is based in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is the proud mother of two children, a grandmother and great-grandmother. Virginia is an advocate for access to clean water in her community of Columbia, and previously worked for Sierra Club to stop a two-thousand-acre development on a vital floodplain. She organized bus riders in her community to form an association to advocate for improved transit services and support a ballot initiative to invest in walking and biking infrastructure. She currently serves on the Richland County conservation commission as well as her local transportation oversight commission.