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.

Earth Day 2022: Free Trees to Help Heal Our Planet

The following was a press release on April 17, 2022:

Waco, TX.-- The Waco Friends of the Climate announces an event in honor of Earth Day, entitled Earth Day 2022:  Free Trees to Help Heal Our Planet.  500 tree seedlings will be distributed, free of charge, at the Downtown Farmer's Market, Saturday, April 23, from 9am until 5pm, or until all trees are given out.  The trees are Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana), selected because they are evergreen and rapid growers, making them good carbon sinks, helping to combat climate change.  In addition, Texas A&M Forest Service recommends this tree for McLennan County.  The Eastern Redcedar is medium in size when fully grown, drought and salty soil tolerant, and the blue berries are eaten by birds.  The tree has fibrous, shredding bark, and may serve as a windbreak.  The males produce pollen.  Care instructions will be provided and follow-up information from those planting the trees will be requested. 

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Assessment Report 6 (AR6). warned that "unless there are immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, 1.5°C is beyond reach.”  With warming above 1.5C, the climate impacts are projected to be catastrophic.  This report emphasizes that time to act is running out.  Although slashing greenhouse gas emissions is the most important step, increasing carbon sinks is also important, including planting new trees and preserving current forests. The goal of this project is to thus increase Waco's carbon sink by adding trees to the current stock.  An annual distribution is anticipated. 

Contact: 
Alan D. Northcutt, M.D.
254.744.1682
anorthc@aol.com


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