Clean energy for everyone/Starhawk/Permaculture/new IEA report

Clean energy only works as a climate solution if it is accessible to everyone.  Clean Energy as a Human Right reframes clean energy from a technical solution to a moral imperative.  

As Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” 

Rachel Mislivy is our UU Climate Justice contact for the Unitarian Universalists (all over.) She says:

"Over the next several months, you’ll have multiple opportunities to learn more about Clean Energy as a Human Right from some of the organizations who continue to inspire and challenge me to do better, including:

• Visionary Approaches to Federal Clean Energy Funding with Rewiring America, Just Solutions Collective, and Emerald Cities Collaborative, Wednesday, October 25 at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET

• Creating Hubs of Climate Resilience with Federal Clean Energy Funding with Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Black Sun Light Sustainability, and Environmental & Energy Study Institute, Thursday, November 9 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET"

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The church affiliation is between any faith based groups. I also have supported the group "Create Climate Justice," a Christian Faith-based group working for positive climate change, and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee which works all over the world with many crisis situations.

I'm admittedly a networker. I can't get out and help in actions anymore, but I do wish to let others know what they might want to do, or at least know about.  

There are others under the umbrella of "Side with Love" working with various UU groups.

I'm most interested in the Nov. 9 program (above). 

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Oh, and I found another interesting site last week. 

In this complex moment, how do we build the diverse and welcoming movements we need to bring about social justice and environmental balance?

I will share my observations from permaculture and nature spirituality to show how understanding interconnectedness, in nature and human society, is the key. Acknowledging our basic human needs for safety, belonging, agency and meaning can help us become more skillful at bringing people together, bridging our differences and working more effectively for change.

Love,

Starhawk

And here's the recording of this - lots of good information about how to have better groups of common interests.  

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And a new post from Katharine Hayhoe last weekend...passes along this information:

By the end of the decade, global fossil fuel emissions will drop to 2015 levels, a new IEA report titled “Net Zero Roadmap” finds.

Based on current progress, they estimate the decline will begin in 2025. “The speed of the roll-out of key clean energy technologies means that the IEA now projects that demand for coal, oil and natural gas will all peak this decade even without any new climate policies,” the report notes. But this year’s record temperatures have shown us the dangers of our current pathway. That means we must still do more, and faster. 
 
Like what? This year, countries must stop approving new coal plants. (They don’t even make financial sense anymore and they’re huge sources of harmful pollution, too.) By 2025, new oil and gas furnaces must be phased out in favor of heat pumps. And by 2030, electric vehicles must make up some 65 percent of new sales around the planet and installed renewable energy sources have to triple. 

When it comes to climate action, we need everyone’s hand on that giant boulder, including yours, pushing it down the hill as fast as it can go! For more on how to electrify your life, see this newsletter from a few weeks ago.