Turning up the heat on climate change
Faith-based group urges county to take leadership role on pivotal issue
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140703/NEWS/140709714/1117/turning-up-the-heat-on-climate-change&template=fairfaxTimes

A new faith-based group has formed to try and get the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to take a larger leadership role in the area of climate change.

Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions is an interfaith group that grew out of a committee at the Unitarian Univeralist Congregation of Fairfax and now includes environmental advocates from a variety of faith backgrounds.

“You have all stripes coming together on one issue, and I think it speaks loudly,” said Erik Backus, a Lutheran and member of the FACS Community Council.

Like religious leaders coming together to form the civil rights movement, Backus said, “I think it can really have an effect.”

The group began taking shape earlier this year, following an Earth Day summit of faith leaders who were already advocates on the issue of climate change within their respective religious organizations.

The council has established a four-part action plan that it wants the county to pursue. The group has also obtained a small grant to hire a part-time employee to help with organizational efforts.

FACS members believe that the county Board of Supervisors has not shown sufficient leadership on the issue of climate change. Unlike other jurisdictions in the region, including Arlington County, Fairfax does not have a formal climate plan, said Scott Peterson, a member of the FACS Community Council from the Unitarian faith.

Backus said he would describe the county’s level of engagement on environmental issues as “normal.” However, as a large, wealthy jurisdiction so close to the nation’s capital, he said, he thinks the county should be taking more of a leadership role.

“We are hoping to show the government that there are people of faith who care about these issues intensely,” Peterson said.

For a first step, FACS is asking the county to publicly display and rank the energy efficiency of all public buildings, including schools, on a dashboard. The county has discussed such a project but has not advanced it yet.

“We think that by showing a ranking of all county-owned buildings that it will put pressure on the building managers at the bottom,” Peterson said. “It will provide accountability and, ultimately, save taxpayers’ money.”

They are also seeking a commitment to reduce energy consumption by 25 percent by a to-be-determined date.

The group would also like the county to establish an office focused on environmental and climate-related issues, similar to what it did in establishing the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness. Currently these functions are spread among multiple agencies.

Peterson said FACS plans to advocate for these types of projects so that they receive budget priority. In the last budget cycle, he said, the county energy coordinator position “came within a hair’s breadth of being eliminated,” and the board cut more than $500,000 the county executive had targeted for energy efficiency projects.

“They’ve had no constituency,” he said.

The other two points of the FACS action plan focus on engaging the private sector.

The group would like to see the county’s green building policy, which the board just updated this week, become a requirement and not a voluntary measure.

FACS also supports the development of the “Green Energy Triangle” in Lorton, to serve as a demonstration of green energy technologies, and would like to see the Private Sector Energy Taskforce reconstituted as an ongoing county organization to continue to engage the private sector in developing new ideas.

Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Sharon Bulova (D-At large) said she believes the board has already done a lot of work in setting and pursuing environmental goals, citing achievements in preserving and growing the tree canopy, controlling stormwater and the recent work on the green building ordinance.

“I think that our board’s environmental agenda is a pretty sound and strong agenda,” Bulova said.

A little Faith goes a Looooooong way.

Need clikz?

yes i'm expecting their advice will lead to globals resolutions soon.

by an amazing method called "counting luxury hotels near government centers", i've isolated the air controls they have been fucking with ...

and it appears to me they have been doing allot of fucking around
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At least they're consistent - a faith-based group that worships an invisible being in the sky is also taking man-made global warming on faith, in spite of the fact that every prediction made by global warming zealots to date has proven false.

WORSHIPME!!!!

“I think that our board’s environmental agenda is a pretty sound and strong agenda,” Bulova said.

Translation: "this FACS shit's too batshit crazy even for my leftist ass. Thanks, but no thanks."

"FACS"? Well lets see here....Tim Gore, OXFAM, Rockefeller Foundation, or George $oro$ funded? Follow the money. :)

Since God controls the sun, and doesn't like scientists, I think this was a good decision.
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Jack Beanstalk Wrote:
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> "FACS"? Well lets see here....Tim Gore, OXFAM,
> Rockefeller Foundation, or George $oro$ funded?
> Follow the money. :)


Who funds the 1-2% of scientists that says it isn't true?
Do they work for free....?

Jack Beanstalk Wrote:
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> "FACS"? Well lets see here....Tim Gore, OXFAM,
> Rockefeller Foundation, or George $oro$ funded?
> Follow the money. :)

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i think you forgot NJ democrat takeover of

The Virginia Tobacco Fund

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1 out of 5 Wrote:
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> Jack Beanstalk Wrote:
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> > "FACS"? Well lets see here....Tim Gore, OXFAM,
> > Rockefeller Foundation, or George $oro$ funded?
> > Follow the money. :)
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> Who funds the 1-2% of scientists that says it
> isn't true?
> Do they work for free....?

Pro bono for a worthy cause.

Local governments can always do more, but Fairfax has some bigger fish to fry for now. The revenue losses persisting from the Great Recession are holes that need to be filled in just to keep the county moving forward. We'll need more than a crummy half-cent increase in the residential real estate rate next year to accomplish it. But low-cost steps to keep us pointed in the right direction on energy are still important and welcome. Good to have local groups of any sort working to push the issue.

As for the flat-earth denier frisbees, not much can be said beyond "what a bunch of ignorant losers!

The one constant with the earth's climate is change. Deal with it, but don't expect to stop it unless you're a braindead libtard.

It's change we can believe in.

Libs told us that change for the sake of change is always good and that we should elect Obama to change America into another workers' paradise like North Korea. But climate change is bad? Seems libs got it backwards.

Climatetardz.

FLYINGSPAGHETTIMONSTER!!! Wrote:
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> WORSHIPME!!!!
+1

Wait a minute - this is a faith-based group. Why do they need intervention by anyone other than God? Can't we just pray our way out of climate change, so that the weather can be perfect every day?

Have Faith Wrote:
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> Wait a minute - this is a faith-based group. Why
> do they need intervention by anyone other than
> God? Can't we just pray our way out of climate
> change, so that the weather can be perfect every
> day?

God doesn't write checks.

thats what the repubtarz are for

Thank god somebody put this together. Now I get. Gonna go turn my A/C down to 68 to help cool the planet.

Wait, there's more. And notice it's the white man in the middle causing all of this, not the global south.