Sun Day is a day of action on September 21, 2025, celebrating solar and wind power, and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind. Third Act Oregon is sponsoring a variety of events around Oregon:

• Sept. 17 at 7 PM: Bill McKibben will be speaking about his new book at Powell’s Books in Portland.

• Sept. 20 at 10 AM: Free EV ride and drive event in Lake Oswego

• Sept. 21: Sun Day events in Portland, Corvallis, Eugene, Ashland and Bend will celebrate the unstoppable

• Sept. 21 at 3-5 PM: Kickoff meeting of the Gorge Clean Energy Coalition at the Hood River Library, featuring Brian Stewart speaking on lessons learned in electrifying Oregon.

• Sept. 27 at 4 PM: Jigar Shah webinar on gearing up for what’s next: a major campaign to simplify and accelerate rooftop and community solar across the country.

  We’ll be joined by clean energy pioneer Jigar Shah to hear how we can drive real progress without waiting on Washington. We’ll also preview our Simplified Solar campaign, aimed at slashing the “soft costs” of solar—permitting, paperwork, and red tape—that make up two-thirds of total installation costs in the U.S.

  Learn how you can help change the system in your town and be part of a movement to make solar easier, faster, and more affordable for everyone.

  Jigar Shah

  is an energy entrepreneur, investor, and strategist who was featured on the 2024 TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. He is co-Managing Partner of Multiplier LLC, a boutique advisory firm helping clean energy, cleantech, and climate tech companies accelerate their growth. Shah most recently served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, the federal government’s clean energy investment platform. He transformed the office, overseeing a tenfold increase in loan authority and deploying $108 billion in debt financing for clean energy and advanced transportation projects across the United States. Prior to his government service, Shah was co-founder and President of Generate Capital ($10B AUM), which largely invented low-cost, infrastructure-as-a-service financing. Previously, Shah founded SunEdison, where he pioneered third-party power purchase agreement solar financing. He successfully sold SunEdison for $389 million. Shah also served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change.
  Shah is a co-host of the popular podcast “Open Circuit” from Latitude Media. Originally from Illinois, Shah holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.

  Bill McKibben

  is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written more than twenty books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.