For our June\, 2026 m
eeting we will be reading and discussing the first four chapters of He
re Comes the Sun\, by Bill McKinnen (Amazon) (Norton). For our July meeting we wi
ll finish the book.Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand f or the online invite. All are welcome!
\nFor our June\, 2026 m
eeting we will be reading and discussing the first four chapters of He
re Comes the Sun\, by Bill McKinnen (Amazon) (Norton). For our July meeting we wi
ll finish the book.
Our climate\, and our democracy\, are melting down. But Bill McKibben\, one of the firs t to sound the alarm about the climate crisis\, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapes t power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history ―if we can keep accelerating the pace\, we have a chance.
\nHere Comes the S un tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wi nd―and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicia ns to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan’s electric grid in a year to th e world’s sixth-largest economy―California―nearly halving its use of natur al gas in the last two years\, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentif ul\, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than j ust a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can’t hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves―it’s available to all.
\nThere’s no guarantee we can make this change in time\, but there is a hope―in McKibben’s eyes\, our best hope for a new civilization: one tha t looks up to the sun\, every day\, as the star that fuels our world.
\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussi on monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics\, and our most re cent books were Pacific Circuit\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, What’s Lef t – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis\, The A ge of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom ’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.
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