{"id":140900,"date":"2025-08-01T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=140900"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:41:07","slug":"austin-sierra-club-climate-meeting-and-first-uu-climate-committee-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/austin-sierra-club-climate-meeting-and-first-uu-climate-committee-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Sierra Club Climate Meeting and First UU Climate Committee Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-138164\" src=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-3.27.55-PM-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-3.27.55-PM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-3.27.55-PM-2x1.png 2w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-3.27.55-PM-50x33.png 50w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-23-at-3.27.55-PM.png 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Bill McKibben will publish a new book in two weeks:\u00a0<i>Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.\u00a0<\/i>Solar energy is now cheaper\u00a0than natural gas or wind energy. In our market economy, that means clean solar energy will\u00a0replace burning dirty fossil fuels sooner or later. This may be our &#8220;Last Chance&#8221; before tipping points start to spiral global\u00a0warming out of control. Oil and gas still have a lot of money and power to protect their profits and will fiercely work to delay the inevitable. We must have a people movement to counter them. We must educate people, most of whom who still think solar energy is expensive, that it is, indeed, the cheapest form of energy. Our meeting Tuesday night will be an early step towards that.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Tuesday night, August 5, at 6:30 pm in\u00a0Howson Hall,<\/strong> we will meet and hear more details on the cost of solar vs. other energy and of a national day to celebrate and educate around solar energy, Sun Day 2025, on and around September 21. We will set people up in teams to make this happen.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>6:30pm &#8211; Pot luck begins<br \/>7:00pm &#8211; Announcements<br \/>7:15pm &#8211; Presentation on \u201cSolar is Cheap, Solar is Clean\u201d<br \/>7:45pm &#8211; Brainstorm<br \/>8:00pm &#8211; Sign up for Sun Day working teams<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill McKibben will publish a new book in two weeks:\u00a0Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.\u00a0Solar energy is now cheaper\u00a0than natural gas or wind energy. In our market economy, that means clean solar energy will\u00a0replace burning dirty fossil fuels sooner or later. This may be our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140902,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140900\/revisions\/140902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}