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.

Waco Friends of the Climate 5th Styrofoam Recycling Event

We got great response from Wacoans as we filled 1 and ½ large UHaul trucks. We greatly appreciate the response, but wish to channel that degree of environmental concern to the actual existential threat of the 21st century, the climate crisis.

Many thanks to our hard-working volunteers of this event: Travis Hipp, Harrison Ward, and Rafael. They persisted thru four hours of collection.

The volume of styrofoam has steadily grown, and this time we needed to rent a 2nd truck after only about one hour of collection.

Thanks to Paul Mundy of PM Fabricators and Machine for receiving this styrofoam to perform the first stage of recycling, grinding and melting the styrofoam to produce a dense, light tan-yellow hard plastic. This substrate will be taken to a facility that manufactures eyeglass frames and other plastic products from the recycled Styrofoam.

Many thanks to the styrofoam donors who generously donated about $180 to help defray the cost of renting 2 Uhaul trucks.

Please save the date: December 12, Sat. , 9am until Ipm. for our next Styrofoam Recycling Event.









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