Please join us at the Monmouth County Faith & Ecology Meetup! This is an informal, interfaith gathering for people of faith working on environmental issues in our county. Let's meet each other and learn what we are working on in our faith communities! What issues are inspiring us? What challenges are we facing? Let's grow and learn together at this fun networking event. Refreshments will be provided.

*** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: This meet-up session will include a special listening session to help bring our local climate concerns to the world stage. We will do a group activity called a "self-organized dialogue", part of the Global Ethical Stocktake Circle in preparation for the climate COP30 in Brazil in November. We will share our answers to questions such as:

• Why do we so often deny or ignore what science and traditional knowledge say about the climate crisis and share or tolerate misinformation, even knowing lives are at risk?

• What traditions, histories, or practices (cultural, spiritual) from your community teach us to live in greater harmony with nature?

• Considering that we need to guarantee diversity in the collective, how can we mobilize more people, leaders, corporations, companies, and nations to support just and ethical changes in combating the climate crisis? What ideas and values could inspire us in this mission?