Sun Day is our moment to come together for clean power for everyone.
If we can keep building solar power, we’ll have a shot to stop climate change - which is why it’s so important to stand up to the politicians stopping it.
On September 21st, we’ll be coming together to celebrate the power of renewable energy: from cutting the ribbon on new solar parks, to marching for laws to make it easier to benefit from renewables, to ebike parades and more.
We all feel better when the sun comes out, so let’s be the bright light of hope that changes the world. Join us on September 21st. sunday.earth/...
Hosted by The Third Act, Sun Day is currently being celebrated in 500 events across the country.
Bill McKibben writes about the event in his substack The Crucial Years:
In Virginia, volunteers will climb rooftops to install solar panels on Habitat for Humanity homes, kicking off a national push to put 10,000 systems on affordable housing. It’s part of a $40 million drive to help low-income families save money and gain access to clean energy. In Portland Oregon, there’s a parade across one of the city’s big bridges, with giant puppets, Aztec dancers, and marching bands, followed by a "Sun Ball" celebration. A free concert in Monument Valley Utah, Monument Valley, Utah, with Latigo, an Indigenous country-western band,performing outdoors and using solar panels and lithium batteries to power their sound. (Navajo tacos will be available.) In New Paltz New York the mayor is inaugurating a net-zero fire station; in New Hampshire the Mallett Brothers are giving a concert powered by the batteries in Ford F-150 Lightnings.
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Obviously this is hard going—the Trump administration continues its all out war on clean energy (and in the Times this morning Ben Shapiro tells Ezra Klein that Bernie Sanders is “a putrescent Marxist pimple on the posterior of the body politic,” ha ha).But this weekend we get to play offense as well as defense, to remind the world that we now live on a planet where the cheapest way to make energy is to point a sheet of glass at the sun. The beautiful and liberating power of the sun—instead of being chained forever to paying a bill for yet more fossil fuel—deserves to be celebrated, and so we shall. I’m in San Francisco right now, headed for Seattle tonight, Portland tomorrow, and Los Angeles the next; but I’ll be back in New York City for the day itself, where we’ll gather at Stuyvesant Square Park to watch the pictures pour in from around the country.
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