[Sustain] VERY Important: Oct 16 Be At City Hall For SF 50% Clean Energy Project!

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all!

Clear your calendar on Friday October 16th for a -huge- clean energy
event! (With an essential follow-up media event on Saturday the 24th.)

On Friday Oct 16, after a nine year battle against PG&E and SF Utilities
Commission (SFPUC) interference, the Request For Proposals for
contractors to bid to build San Francisco's Clean Power SF (Community
Choice) Project (which will run the City on 50% solar and wind power
within the next decade) is going to a joint Board of Supervisors
Committee for approval! Clean Power SF will also bring us fully half the
way to public power, because at the end of that first 10 years, the City
will -own- 50% of its own energy supply, setting the stage for us to
kick PG&E -out- of San Francisco.

This crucial vote will come down in a joint Government Audits &
Oversight / Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) hearing on Friday
the 16th. The hearing time is not yet set but will likely be between 1
and 2pm.

Every clean energy organizer's presence will be -crucial- at this
hearing to both 1) sound a clarion call to the world that the largest
municipal clean energy project in Earth's history is on its way to the
Board of Supervisors for its enacting vote, and 2) to make sure that if
between now and the 16th the SFPUC staff has interfered with and
weakened the Request For Proposals (RFP) that there is a room full of
energized, determined and angry activists to -demand- that the RFP be
amended and released in he strongest possible form for success.

This final point is very important because the SFPUC recently tried to
pull a surprise maneuver to take all of the RFP's mandatory requirements
for strong percentages of renewables and efficiency, and change them
instead into weak optional goals!

Core organizers were able to block this cynical maneuver, but over the
next two weeks, the SFPUC staff could very well once again try to weaken
the project RFP and it will be essential at this vital zero hour for the
planetary clean energy movement, that -all- of you are there to fight
for the strongest possible Clean Power SF project bid.

KEY ORGANIZING NOTE - GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION SAT OCT 24 (UNITED
NATIONS DAY):

Note that if all goes well on the 16th and we pass a good RFP out of
committee, the Board of Supervisors will have its first vote on the RFP
implementing ordinance on Tuesday Oct 20, with its second and final
confirmation vote on Tuesday Oct 27.

This will set us up -perfectly- to join 350.org's global day of climate
action on Saturday, October 24. On that day, hundreds of actions will be
taking place simultaneously across the planet to announce the emergence
of the climate action movement as a worldwide force to save the Earth
and humanity. (For more info see http://www.350.org/actions )

All of these actions will center on establishing and photographing the
number 350 because rapidly reducing CO2 to 350 ppm in the atmosphere
from the current 390 ppm is what scientists are now saying it will take
to save the planet from mass catastrophe.

Since Clean Power SF is set to give us 360 megawatts of local renewables
and efficiency by the end of 2012, our 350 action could be to proclaim
that San Francisco is now establishing Clean Power SF to go at least 350
megawatts renewable by Earth Day 2012.

This is kismet and Karma and the perfect storm all wrapped into one y'all.

Clear your calendars for October 16th and 24th and let's launch Clean
Power SF into the stratosphere right in front of the media, so that it
will become so politically powerful that no amount of PG&E manipulation
can stop it!

I'll be in touch soon with Committee and United Nations Day organizing
details.

peace

Eric Brooks