Thanks to MNIPL for sharing this Great Idea – which is full of Good News and hope!!

In their December 02, 2025 newsletter, MNIPL’s Sam Blackwell cites MNIPL Strategic Policy Director Sara Wolff who wrote in this blog post:

‘If you were following the news from the annual climate summit of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) out of Belem Brazil, you may have felt, as I did, a bit (or more) of despair tempered only by the low expectations we’ve grown accustomed to holding.

But in the closing session, something incredible happened.

To breakthrough the consensus that could not be achieved to do what needed to be done, COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago announced that he would create 2 roadmaps:

To halt and reverse deforestation;
To transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner.
There was a time when this vision to end fossil fuel use felt aspirational. Something we needed, something to strive for, but something that seemed to many to be based on a future we couldn’t see.

Today, this vision isn’t aspirational. It is inevitable.

Writes Bill McKibben in his latest call to action in the shape of a book: “…Right now, really for the first time, I can see a path forward. A path lit by the sun.”

McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization details the enormous shifts underway right now – across the globe – as the costs of solar and storage have fallen, and the innovations around each have grown. These shifts and innovations have made the sun the most economical, most practical way for people to power their lives.

And this shift to solar and wind doesn’t just have the potential to bend the climate crisis. It has the potential to build wealth for communities who would otherwise depend on perpetually paying others to find, mine, transport, then burn fossil fuels for energy.

Let’s be sure we understand that this energy transition is happening, here and around the world, and shout this from the rooftops. Because not everyone knows it.

The pace at which we execute this transition has consequences. And the excuses from industry – ever embedded in the past and status quo – will keep coming. We need to be there to shine the light.

Interested in a community discussion of McKibben’s new book? Join us for our book discussion on January 8!’

Discover their full line-up of Winter Book Discussions here. It’s Book Club, adult faith formation, and even adults and youth together ministry opportunities all wrapped up together!!