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.

Solar For All Waco City Council

Waco City Council Business Session, Aug. 1, 2023: deep thanks to Waco Friends of the Climate members--Joyce Nobis, Bruce Allen, Julia Kisacky-- who gave powerful 3 minute comments. We called on the City to apply for a "Solar for All" grant from the EPA, which range from $25 million to $400 million. The grant would lower the City's GHG emissions, provide rooftop solar for low income & disadvantaged people, strengthen the Texas electrical grid, and encourage collaboration with the TSTC solar technicians training program. We also thank our dozen members who submitted hand written comments we delivered to the council, and those on Facebook who emailed City officials directly. All these efforts have been SUCCESSFUL: the City has stated it IS evaluating the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for this grant, and deciding whether to be the primary applicant or a sub-recipient (working with another entity such as the state). Thanks again for the eloquence and courage of our speakers at the City Council meeting. Thanks to the City Manager & others in the City government for work on this application. If received, the Solar for All grant would advance environmental justice, and lighten the City's carbon footprint.






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