SUNDAY, JANUARY 10TH! Population Connection presentation by John Seager

THE WILDFLOWER JUSTICE AND CLIMATE ACTION TEAMS PRESENT:  A FORUM BY JOHN SEEGER, PRESIDENT OF POPULATION CONNECTION.

 1:00 PM , after services, at Wildflower Church Community Room, 1314 E. Oltorf.

CHILDCARE AND PIZZA WILL BE AVAILABLE.

Please plan to attend this informative presentation which has been presented to many UUA congregations across the country.

Population Connection (formerly known as Zero Population Growth) is the preeminent progressive grassroots group for population education and advocacy, with more than 500,000 members and supporters, including 50,000 participating educators. They focus on achieving global population stabilization through universal awareness and access to voluntary family planning together with the full empowerment of women.

In their give-and-take sessions they emphasize the connections between human population growth and social justice, environmental issues, and women’s rights. With world population now over 7 billion, the impact of rapid population growth on people and the planet has never been more compelling.

 www.popconnect.org

Please also take note of Wildflower Church's next WildEarth Climate Action Team meeting: Friday, January 22nd, 7 p.m.  We intend to move future meetings to Thursdays, but in January we will meet Friday to avoid conflict with the class series, "Articulating our Faith." LOCATION:  at one of our member's home, in Circle C area. For location of meeting, email climateteam@wildflowerchurch.org or for information on short notice, CALL 5128100236

The WildEarth Climate Action Team is again hosting an organizers' meeting for the

Global Climate March Austin.  

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We meet tonight! Be with cool people and eat tasty sandwiches!
October 28th at 7pm in the Community Room of Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church (at the Faith Presbyterian Church building) located at 1314 E Oltorf St, Austin, TX 78704.

If you can bring your computer or tablet we can use those to get some work done. :)


The march itself will be on Sunday (the Sunday after Thanksgiving), November 29th.

SAVING OURSELVES FROM OURSELVES, AND CLIMATE ORGANIZING, FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 7 PM

The WILDEARTH CLIMATE ACTION TEAM  will have our regular second-Friday meeting on Friday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room.  Mike Ignatowski will start us off with a summary of and some discussion time for an article, “This is the Year Humans Finally Got Serious About Saving Themselves From Themselves.”

  We will also have guests: Kirsten Johansson and Josh Wallis, lead organizers for the Global Climate March in Austin on November 29^th, and also Matthew Chovanec, lead organizer for the Peoples Climate Movement Day of Action on October 14th.   We will explore with them the possible support from us and interconnections that we might help them make with other groups in Austin.  Events like this are being organized internationally in the lead-up to the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December.  After introducing these guests and their projects, those who do not wish to remain for the nuts-and-bolts organizing may leave or (as often happens) head out to Opal Divine's restaurant and bar at 3601 South Congress (map at http://www.opaldivines.com/penn-field/index.html).

 Future event:  (This remains tentative until confirmed)—the four of us who have been assembling a talk on climate change (with the emphasis on hopeful tipping points), have reset our target date for our first presentation to Friday, October 16, 7:00 pm, in the Community Room.

Upcoming events of the WildEarth team:

September 25 - Friday evening -  7 pm - "Pope and Potluck"
       We will gather at Mike Ignatowski and Martha Carleton's home on the day after Pope Francis' historic climate change address to Congress in Washington, to watch a replay and enjoy a potluck together.
Their home is out on 290 toward Dripping Springs, a bit past Nutty Brown Cafe. We will carpool from the HEB at the Y at Oak Hill. For more details please watch for the Weekly News, the service insert,  or contact climateteam@wildflowerchurch.org , or check the Calendar at www.wildflowerchurch.org.


   
Other happenings around town:
      Friday Sept. 18  - 6th Annual Sustainability Symposium, at UT, 8:30 - 3:30
      Wed. Nov. 11 - Naomi Klein on Climate and Capitalism,  UT, Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium

Earth Day Fair on April 19, 2015

As part of a day of global environmental action, The WildEarth Climate Action Team of Wildflower Unitarian Universalist Church participated in creating an Earth Day Fair on Sunday, April 19, 2015, from 12:30 to 2:20 p.m., at Wildflower Church, 1314 E. Oltorf St., in South Austin.  Many of Austin's premier environmental and green groups were on hand, along with free food and children's activities.  We learned about solar power, beekeeping, electric cars, and more.  Parking was free and available both on the church grounds and across the street at Travis High School.

 For more information, contact fellowship@wildflowerchurch.org , or  gogreen@austin.rr.com , or call 512-810-0236.