Would you like to lessen your carbon footprint by eating locally farmed fruits & vegetables, support a local business, and help raise funds for UUCA? Then please sign up for our new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) fundraiser with Tanaka Farms! Every other Sunday you will pick up your CSA box of fruits & vegetables at UUCA, and the church will receive 10% of the purchase price of each box. All you need to do is sign up!

• Sign up link:  https://csa.farmigo.com/join/tanakafarms

• Choose Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim from the site list

• Choose box size and create an account

• Exclusive signup code UUCHURCH for $15 off the first box

At its 2020 Spring Congregational meeting, UUCA members voted to have the justice ministry focus on environmental issues. We have EJM committee meetings second Sundays of alternate months at 1:00pm in person & on Zoom. You can also follow the UUCA EJM on Facebook and Twitter for relevant news articles and local events. Thanks!

Green Sanctuary 2030

• At its 2020 Fall Congregational meeting, UUCA members voted we begin the process to become an accredited Green Sanctuary with the UUA. Each congregation performs a self-assessment, writes a plan, and completes projects across: Environmental Justice / Climate Justice, Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, and Sustainable Living. Learn more about Green Sanctuary 2030 (GS2030) here.

• Spring 2021 Congregational meeting - phase one, congregational profile, completed and submitted. UUCA profile is posted on createclimatejustice.org

• Fall 2021 Congregational meeting - phase two, congregational opportunity assessment, completed and submitted for review to UUA Green Sanctuary team

• Spring 2022 Congregational meeting - phase three, draft action plan, completed and submitted for review to UUA GS2030 review team. 

Native Plant Garden

Please stop by and enjoy our Native Plant Garden on the north side of our R.E. building when you next visit UUCA in person. A native plant is a species that naturally occurs within a specific ecosystem (without human intervention) and shares an evolutionary history with the other species in that area. These relationships make them crucial for the health and productivity of that ecosystem. 

Without them, ecosystem services collapse, threatening the systems our communities depend on to survive. Our native plant garden is listed on Homegrown National Park, whose co-founder Professor Doug Tallamy describes a new culture where we all make a difference in our habitats: “Our National Parks, no matter how grand in scale, are too small and separated from one another to preserve (native) species to the levels needed. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park, a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and to a lesser extent where we farm and graze, extending national parks to our yards and communities.”  

We invite you to consider planting native species in your corner of the world. Calscape, a project of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS), is a wonderful resource to help you design and plant your own beautiful native plant garden.  

At its April 18, 2021, meeting the UUCA Board voted to support HR 2307 - the Energy Innovation & Carbon dividend Act - Read the resolution