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