Important Announcements

CURRENT INFORMATION: go to our Facebook group "Waco Friends of the Climate." 1) Beginning Jan. 2025, our focus has been on resistance to Donald Trump, since his policies are our greatest threat to the climate. Thus, we are not having monthly meetings at this time. We hope to hold monthly meetings in the future. Visit our Facebook group for current activities, Waco Friends of the Climate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 2) Our role in the resistance includes a weekly protest at the pedestrian bridge in Waco, Valley Mills Dr. & Bagby Avenue, each Sunday, 1:00pm-2:30pm. We began the protest in March 2025 and it has been carried on weekly for over one year. We provide huge, highly visible banners. Please join us. RESISTING FASCISM, ONE SUNDAY AT A TIME. 3) Because of the sad passing of our webmaster, Harrison Ward, we have not been able to keep the website up to date. For the most current information, please visit our Facebook group, Waco Friends of the Climate : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 4) To join our email list and be informed of actions, activities, and campaigns, email our Director Alan Northcutt at anorthc@aol.com 5)Free "climate crisis is here" yard signs may be obtained by emailing anorthc@aol.com. Delivery of signs is available. Help raise awareness of the climate crisis, deeply needed in Waco. 6) Winners of the "Sixth Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit" may be found in the Archives, April 2023. Some incredible climate art may be viewed.

5th ANNUAL EARTH DAY Distribution of FREE Reusable Shopping Bags


On Saturday, April 21, from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM, FOP/C members will distribute complimentary re-usable shopping bags at the Waco Downtown Farmers' Market.  This will be the fifth year that we have done this.  The shoppers at the Market seem to love this tradition and we give away from 500 to 800 bags each year.  Hopefully, 2018 will also be successful. 

We know that this event serves 2 purposes:  it helps decrease litter associated with single use plastic bags, and it decreases the global carbon emissions associated with the plastic bags.  The vast majority of shoppers at local groceries are STILL using plastic bags.  Our mission is to reverse that pattern by our example as we shop, and by supplying the bags folks need in order to ditch the plastic.  And never forget:  if we don't change our behavior, by 2050  the OCEAN WILL CONTAIN MORE PLASTIC BY WEIGHT THAN FISH!!  We must help prevent that disaster.

To subscribe to FOP/Climate email list: anorthc@aol.com  

Comments

Post a Comment