This is a hybrid event, both in-person at the JUC and online on our YouTube Channel. If you can't make it in-person, you can watch the streaming broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/@jeffersonhumanists2779/streams. We will also record the program for later viewing on our YouTube Channel for those who may miss this event.
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Join Jefferson Humanists for our monthly program titled, Insights to Solving Our Climate/energy Crisis presented by retired Colorado weather forecaster, Mike Nelson.

Mike Nelson, the Denver Meteorologist who was brave enough to discuss climate change on the evening news, will be giving an informative and hopeful presentation about how to solve our climate/energy crisis and improve our standard of living and national security.

Mike Nelson is a well-known meteorologist who served until his retirement as the Chief Meteorologist at Denver7 for over 20 years, 13 years at Channel 9 News, and has a career spanning nearly 50 years in television meteorology. He has won multiple Emmy awards and is recognized for his contributions to weather forecasting and education.

This program is hosted by Jefferson Humanists, a chapter of the American Humanist Association.

To ensure we set up enough seats, please RSVP on this Meetup or by email to RSVP@jeffersonhumanists.com.

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In addition to our monthly program, our Humanist Helping Humanity group is collecting school supplies to donate to The Action Center's BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE of 2026 for the fast approaching school season. Distribution of school supplies is early August, so we are asking members to contribute however they prefer before July's end. Standard items are needed, especially backpacks and writing supplies, so please plan to drop off items to express our Humanist values of caring for our communities and responsibility towards altruism and service.

• crayons
• erasers
• colored pencils
• composition notebooks
• folders
• graph paper
• pencils
• glue sticks
• spiral notebooks
• dry erase markers
• scissors

THE FIRST SAT OF EACH MONTH FROM 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Join FROG, the Free thinkers Reading Opportunity Group, for the Saturday August 8 book group meeting from 2-3:30 PM.

In August we'll be discussing One Day, Everyone will have Always been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Adapted from Goodreads:
On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

This book chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse.

This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11.