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Dear Friends of a Healthy Earth,
 
There are many ways you can pitch in right now to save our planet by fighting for a livable earth. Here are a couple of them: 
 
Dear Faith Community Member, If you are concerned that burning fossil fuels for our energy is deteriorating our climate and counter to our principles (especially #7) and values, then here is a simple way you can make a difference. Below are two actions Austin City Council can take to change our climate destiny. They will vote in February of 2024. At the bottom of this are two easy to read issue summary backgrounds, FYI.
 
Sample Draft Message:
Hello City Council Member, I am an Austin tax and rate payer with Austin Energy (or if not say, I am concerned about upcoming decisions by Austin Energy (AE). I’m writing to ask you to direct Austin Energy to stop using city revenue to pay for continued burning of toxic fossil fuels. (Use your words or any of this draft)
 
Start off a healthy 2024 with: 
1. decommission and replace the Fayette Power Plant (FPP) with cheaper cleaner renewables and storage. In the mean time use FPP as little as possible.
 
2. Say “NO” to the proposed “hydrogen capable” gas plant AE is promoting. We have smarter cleaner cheaper energy choices. AE must focus on them.
 
Your name
 
1. Back up:
 
 
Love, Beki and Richard Halpin
Green Sanctuary Ministry
First Unitarian Universalist Church
 

WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO:

My inspiration this month comes from the Knitting Nannas, an Australian activist group fighting to preserve our world for the next generations. 

Their tactics are simple: they show up in bright yellow shirts, knitting in hand, and pull up a chair at protest sites that range from politicians’ offices, coal seams, rallies, or “anywhere else we please to show a mild-mannered yet stubborn front,” they write. 

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“Climate change will destabilize the global insurance industry,” research firm Forrester Research predicted in a fall report. Increasingly extreme weather will make it harder for insurance companies to model and predict exposures, accurately calculate reserves, offer coverage and pay claims, the report said. As a result, Forrester forecast, “more insurers will leave markets besides the high-stakes states like California, Florida, and Louisiana.”