Hello Fellow Planet Champion Congregants,
Last week we spoke about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), this is our tax money returned to folks who want to spend it on energy improvements in their home, church, non-profit organization, business or community. Our outstanding environmental leaders, Bob and Victoria Hendricks and their team, who have put together a slide show on how this IRA money is going to work for you, me and all. This is very cool and informative. If you want to know more about this environmental climate justice financial resource (hundreds to thousands of dollars savings). Click the link here!
Initial presentation designed for consumers, owners and renters
The next Sierra Club Climate Crises Committee (zoom) and in person meeting is 7:00 – 8:30 PM, first Tuesday of every month (August 1st) in Howson Hall.
Do you wonder about the cause of this heat-full time we are struggling through? You know our climate is warmed by what we pump into our atmosphere. We Austinites and Texans are co-owners of the Fayette Coal Fired Power Plant in Fayetteville, Tx. That is about 90 mins. east on 290 from Austin. Our power plant annually pumps into our sky tens of millions of tons of heat, the trapping gasses carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide as well as carbon monoxide and NOx that cause air pollution and respiratory illnesses. A recent report attributes 8 deaths annually to this coal fired monster. These deadly toxins are a contributing cause to our weather turning fatal. These extreme fires, drought, floods, heat, sea warming/rising, and more are caused by heat trapping gasses in our atmosphere that distort our climate. Our Fayette Coal Plant is spewing these poison gases out every day.
Solution: one remedy is to decommission this old monster. Replace it with cheaper, cleaner renewable energy sources. If you want to help clean up our breathable air, share this with every one you know, family, friends, classmates, clubmates, sororities, fraturnaties and ask them to join you in communicating to the Austin City Council (40% ownership for us) and the Tx. Governor (60% ownership thru the LCRA, whose board the Governor appoints, for us). Say, in your words, ‘please decommission this dangerous coal fired Fayette power plant ASAP and replace it with renewable energy and energy storage’. They know this is true and just need a flood of determined communications to motivate them to action.
Green Sanctuary Ministry green@austinuu.org Beki & Richard Halpin
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