Hi Green Sanctuary Home Planet Champion
Our own Texas Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe PhD is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and Asso
Dr Hayhoe shared this science festival (and more) with us. And, Home Planet Champion, the festival host country expedited phase out its last coal fired power plant! We are keeping up our ten year campaign to shut down our own Fayette (Coal Fired deadly*) We need your help. Let us know if this specific closing down this campaign connects for you.
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STARMUS science festival. Co-founded by musician Brian May and astrophysicist Garik Israelian, the festival usually features astronauts and Nobel prize-winners talking about physics and the universe. This year, though, the festival was titled “The Future Of Our Home Planet” and included talks by Ukrainian climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska, paleoclimatologist Mo Raymo, environmental economist Nate Keohane, marine biologist Sylvia Earle, Animal Scientist, Jane Goodall and many more.
This year, the festival was held in Slovakia, a country that just last month phased out its last coal-fired power plant, the Vojany power station in the eastern district of Michalovce. The phase-out was expected to be completed at the end of the decade, but the country pushed forward the deadline to 2024. Slovakia now joins the ranks of other coal-free European countries, a list that includes Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and Sweden. Slovenské elektrárne, the company that owns the shuttered plant, plans to devote the space to a solar park or battery storage in the future.
So this critical global Climate crises is about to be taken up by our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in a National Revival rooted in our UU Churches across the US click here National Climate Revival . We have this Summer to get our heads and hearts around this great opportunity. Bib kickoff in September.
Beki & Richard Halpin,
Green Sanctuary Ministry
512-658-2599 or 512-917-6018
