In 2020, we’re bringing together powerful progressive alliances to pass the first pieces of a California Green New Deal. And we need your support.
Whether it's wildfires, droughts or floods, most of us understand that the climate change isn’t just an environmental problem, it’s a social, political, and economic problem, too. An economy based on extraction, exploitation, and endless growth has poisoned our air and water, intensified extreme weather events, and led to higher prices for basic necessities like food, housing, water, and energy. It has socialized the costs and privatized the gains, concentrating wealth in the hands of a powerful few, and concentrating poverty and pollution in communities with the fewest material resources to respond. This system cannot last; our planet can no longer sustain it and our people will no longer tolerate it.
It's time for a California Green New Deal. It's time to say no to multibillion-dollar bailouts for investor-owned utilities and skyrocketing electric bills for the rest of us. We can do better than pour billions into patching up an antiquated energy infrastructure that relies on nearly 200 dirty gas plants to generate electricity and carry it across dangerously long distances.
Instead, we’ve got to build distributed energy resources that generate and store clean, renewable power locally and regionally, starting in the places that need it most.
APEN members have proposed creating resilient microgrids and energy storage in places already designated as local evacuation centers. We’ve developed plans to turn municipal buildings, apartments, schools, churches and community centers into sites for clean renewable energy generation, and bring down energy costs for entire neighborhoods.
Most importantly, we want to put decision-making power back in the hands of workers and communities – not big corporations that put profits over safety.
We're ready to make history. Will you join us?
