UUFCC

Centre County Interfaith Coalition for Gun Safety
2026-01-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) and 11 more dates | UUFCC – Fellowship Hall, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States

Community Event: Climate Cafe to Share Eco-Anxiety
2026-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 | State College Friends Meeting, 1900 University Dr, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Feeling climate distressed and wanting to share your concerns with like-minded people?
Please come to this free event co-sponsored by the State College Friends’ Climate Justice Working Group and Foxdale’s Climate Care committee. RSVP Here. Co-Facilitators are:
Jackie Bonomo, has led online Climate Cafes for Climate Witness Stewards and practiced peer counseling for 50 years; Andy McKinnon is a licensed social worker, therapist and climate activist and Stacey Budd is the Program Director for Team Development at Shaver’s Creek.
This Climate Cafe is organized to be a confidential space to share climate anxiety and grief over loss due to climate chaos. The world as we knew it is changing due to our previous inattention/denial of the consequences of our way of living on our planet. In clearly seeing this reality, many of us are fearful, angry and sad and the sharing of our losses and concerns helps. We want to:

Reduce feeling overwhelmed
Face the feelings and keep seeing climate reality
Stay actively engaged with the climate problem
Keep functioning well while accepting the reality of climate change, both in our everyday lives, as well as act for change to reduce the threat of climate rupture

Community Event - Pennsylvania's Environmental Future: A Community and Answer
2026-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Foxdale Auditorium, 500 E Marylyn Ave, State College, 16801, United States
with guest speaker Paul Takac.
Representative Paul Takac was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2022 to represent the 82nd Legislative District in the heart of Centre County. His policy priorities include ensuring full and fair funding for public education, championing environmental and clean energy initiatives, protecting individual rights and freedoms, and supporting working people and families by creating jobs and investing in local communities—especially in underserved rural areas.
Representative Takac currently serves on the following Pennsylvania House committees: Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Education; Environmental and Natural Resources Protection; Communications and Technology; Emergency Preparedness; Tourism, Recreation and Economic Development; and Veterans Affairs. Foxdale recently sponsored a presentation by Pam Adams, Regional Planning Director for the Centre Region Council of Governments, highlighting local efforts to address climate change. Now, we invite you to learn more about state-level initiatives. Please join us.
This program is free and open to the public.

Community Event - "Climate Has Always Changed"
2026-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Foxdale Auditorium, 500 E Marylyn Ave, State College, 16801, United States
Dr. Richard Alley will present his groundbreaking research on ice cores and Earth’s climate history, offering insight into how scientists understand past climate change and what that history tells us about the present. By studying records preserved deep within glaciers, Dr. Alley explains that while climate has always changed naturally, those changes have had profound impacts on life on Earth. Comparing past shifts in carbon dioxide to today’s conditions shows that current climate change is overwhelmingly driven by human activity, and scientific models accurately reflect the scale of the challenge we face.
Dr. Alley, a Penn State professor since 1988, is an internationally recognized climate scientist whose honors include election to the U.S. National Academy Presentation co-sponsored by the of Sciences, The Royal Society, and receipt of the U.S. National Medal of Science. He has contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hosted the PBS series Earth: The Operators’ Manual, and authored award‑winning books that make climate science accessible to the public.
This program is free and open to the public.

Community Event: CCICGS - All The Empty Rooms
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | UUFCC – Sanctuary, 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, 16801, United States
Film Screening & Ask Day Discussion hosted by the Centre County Interfaith Coalition for Gun Safety
