In the Season Finale of Season 2 of National Geographic’s The Years of Living Dangerously America Fererra goes inside Sierra Club‘s Beyond Coal campaign, talking to the people at the heart of the fight to move their city from coal to clean energy. At Louis Bacon‘s The Moore Charitable Foundation, we are proud to have partnered with Sierra Club on this stellar national campaign that is mobilizing grassroots activists in local communities to advocate for the retirement of old and outdated coal plants and to prevent new coal plants from being built. Essentially: replacing dirty coal with clean energy.
And beyond Beyond Coal, Sierra Club also has launched another global movement: Ready for 100. It’s a move towards no less that 100% Clean Energy, reflecting a transition that is underway around the world, away from an energy system powered by increasingly expensive and unsustainable fossil fuel resources toward one powered fully by abundant, local, and affordable renewable energy sources. In the years ahead, this transition is poised to improve the quality of life for millions, reduce harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and help forge a world that is more just and equitable for both current and future generations.
Recently, in their year-end newsletter, Sierra Club talked about the role of cities in this big transition. Did you know that cities can deliver 40 percent of all the carbon savings needed to limit global warming to the safe climate threshold of 1.5℃? And that smart mayors are increasingly the agents of change towards sustainable energy futures for millions of people? So no matter what happens in D.C., the Ready for 100 campaign’s work to foster the growing movement of cities that are pulling the plug on fossil fuels takes on a new importance.
Thank you to this great organization for moving us all from dependency on fossil fuels towards a bright, clean future. Get inspired and make a year end donation now so that Sierra Club can continue to accelerate change locally and build from the bottom-up in 2017.
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