Voltage Thanks to all of you who supported the San Francisco Clean Energy Act (Proposition H)!

We appreciate everything you did for the “Yes on H” campaign.   Although we didn’t win enough votes to pass Prop H, we made a valiant effort.  In a compressed time-frame we waged a campaign that challenged an entrenched utility giant, knowing full well the odds against us, but we also knew the importance of pushing for clean energy at this critical time. Soon after the introduction of this visionary proposal asking San Francisco to reach for a 100% clean energy future, Al Gore issued his challenge to America calling for 100% clean energy at an even more rapid pace.  That is sending waves around the world.  Meeting all of you and experiencing the enthusiasm for affordable, renewable, clean energy and green jobs for San Francisco gives us hope for what we can still accomplish. 

Let’s come together and celebrate our efforts! 
We invite you to join us for a
Clean Energy Campaign Potluck 

WHERE: Global Exchange, 2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor, (near 16th St & Mission St BART)
WHEN: Friday, Nov. 21st, 6:00pm-8:00pm. 

Afterwards we can walk over to Elixir for drinks.
If you think you’ll make it, please RSVP to geoff.cleanenergy@gmail.com with what you plan to bring. Or just show up. Just bringing yourself is most important. We want to see you.

This will be a good opportunity to informally share our thoughts on the campaign and reflect on lessons learned as we look toward the future.  Many wonderful organizations and dedicated individuals who came together and gave so much for this campaign deserve thanks.  How we can fine-tune our approach and continue to build our strength, resources, alliances and power to successfully bring 100% clean energy to San Francisco is part of the dialogue that we can continue on Wednesday.  We can schedule a more formal debrief and future planning meeting for another time soon, but on Wednesday let’s be sure to RECOGNIZE THE EFFORTS THAT WENT INTO THIS CAMPAIGN AND HAVE SOME FUN!

It was a tough campaign in which we bravely faced the over $10 million record-shattering amount spent against us while we made steps forward in educating San Franciscans about PG&E’s pitiful performance on renewable energy and the critical need for more action to be taken for clean energy.  

You made a significant difference and together we breathed fresh air into the local clean energy movement.  
Hope to see you on the 19th!

In solidarity

Election day is rapidly approaching — it’s time to give it all you’ve got for the SF Clean Energy Act (Proposition H)!

Let’s get San Francisco to 100% clean renewable energy!

Saturday, Nov. 1 and/or Sunday, Nov. 2
10:00am-5:00pm each day.
Come for a couple hours or stay all day!

Join us at the Prop H Action Center at Global Exchange’s office at 2017 Mission street, 2nd Floor (Near 16th & Mission Streets BART).

continue reading for more info on volunteer opportunities!

Saturday & Sunday we’ll be making phone calls to voters, monitoring the radio and calling in to talk radio shows, blogging for Prop H with a blog jam/blitz, writing letters to the editor and making banners. We’ll have food and drinks to keep us going throughout the day.   For those who’d like to brave uncertain weather we’ll send you out in pairs to walk the precincts and drop literature.   Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be coming on Saturday and/or Sunday.
Contact: June at 415-618-9076 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com to RSVP

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Monday, Nov. 3

Please set aside this final day before the election to spend the whole day with us.  Starting as early as 6am and going into the night, we’ll be doing visibility, handing out literature at key spots, making phone calls and walking key precincts. We’ll plug you into a mix of your favorite activities.  Please spend as much of the day with us as you can whether you can join us for a few hours or all day! Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be there so we can plan for this big final pre-election day.  Contact: June at 415-618-9076 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com to RSVP

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ELECTION DAY Tuesday, Nov. 4

All Day

7am-8pm on Election Day we’ll be doing visibility, GOTV and monitoring the polls to make sure all goes okay.
Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be there so we can plan for election day.  Contact: June at 415-618-9076 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com to RSVP

After  8pm, after the polls are closed, join us at  our Election Night Victory Party with the League of Young Voters and others at El Rio bar on Mission Street.

LET’S MAKE IT A VICTORY!

GET BUSY HELPING PROP H NOW!

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Want to promote Prop H specifically in District 5?
contact Kip at 415-756-8392 or email kipfinder@gmail.com

ANYTIME BETWEEN NOW AND ELECTION DAY
If you’re up for doing some phonecalling, contact June at 415-618-9076 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com and she’ll run a phone bank for whatever times people indicate they are available to make calls.  If you’d rather make calls on your own, she can get you a phone script and list of voters phone numbers to call from your own phone.

Or if you’d like to do some precinct walking at times and locations other than those listed above, contact June  and she can get you your own precinct map and Prop H literature to distribute where and when it’s most convenient for you.

Want to help put up Prop H signs?

Or help out doing data entry and campaign office work?
contact June at 415-618-9076 or email  june@sfcleanenergy.com

Clean Energy & Green Jobs Now!
Here is some more of the coverage that is coming in from the Prop H action outside of PG&E Headquarters. Dozens of people came out for the action, not to mention the dozen PG&E employees on their lunch break enjoying the show. Community members showed PG&E that San Francisco wants clean energy now, and they aren’t waiting around for it any longer! We think they got the message. However PG&E is still spending nearly $9 million on a campaign that only hold to their interests. Remember to keep your, and the climates, interests in mind Nov 4. Vote YES on H!

PROP H WIND TURBINES INSTALLED ON PG&E HQ
More Pics HERE

PG&E’s record-breaking $9.9 million opposition to Prop H said to be obstructing San Francisco’s chance for renewable and cheaper energy

SAN FRANCISCO — In front of PG&E’s downtown headquarters at 77 Beale St. at Market, three twelve-foot wind turbines were constructed by citizens eager to see Prop H pass and begin a green job and affordable green energy future. Citizens wearing green hard hats and worker overalls promptly descended on PG&E’s headquarters and constructed the wind turbine art installations. PG&E provides the City with only 2% wind energy, and 1% solar, for a total of 14% renewable energy, while Prop H would develop thousands of green jobs and move San Francisco’s energy provider to 51% renewable and clean energy in a decade, 75% by 2030 and will maximize all available and affordable renewable energy possible by 2040.

Prop H is the most robust renewable energy policy ever seriously considered in the country, and yet is more modest than Al Gore’s recent call to America to achieve 100% renewable energy in a decade.  Prop H authorizes the City to achieve the renewable energy targets in the most cost-effective and pragmatic means necessary – including Community Choice and public power – the latter of which generates wind and solar energy at rates that are 10% and 49% cheaper than private utilities’ rates – according to the California Energy Commission.

About the Cost, Opportunity for Green Job Development.
Energy policy consulting firm Navigant Consulting researched CCA and confirmed that the City could attain 51% of its electricity from renewables and efficiency at rates that meet or beat PG&E’s.   This report is posted on the SFPUC website.  In California, wind power is 10% cheaper, and solar PV is 49% cheaper when generated through public power compared to privately generated power such as PG&E, according to the California Energy Commission’s “Levalized Cost Report” released December 2007.  “Publicly owned plants are the least expensive because of lower financing costs,” confirms the CEC. The data demonstrates this consistency for renewables as well as conventional combine energy that is 8% cheaper that PG&E’s private rates.  

Over 4.2 million U.S. jobs could be created by 2038 if the U.S. electricity grid transitioned to 40% renewable energy, according to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ New Green Jobs Report released on 10/2/08.  Prop H is a major policy opportunity to start this national green job development, and explicitly directs the PUC to develop a comprehensive job development plan – which is seen a huge economic opportunity during this economic crisis.  Nationally-renown green job proponents – including Van Jones of Green for All- are strongly endorsing Prop H as a model policy for the country to follow.  Other green job endorsers include: Literacy for Environmental Justice, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, and the Green Party, 

Thanks to Aliza Wasserman for the text!

“So what these two measures have in common is that our adversaries can’t sell their message honestly because it’s not a message that voters like.” “They have to reinvent it and, in fact, try to sell the voters a less than truthful message, some might even call them lies.” –Mark Leno

Here is a great piece from Sunday’s “No on 8″ / “Yes on H” rally!
Folks from San Francisco’s LGBTQ community, clean energy advocates, and students, all opponents of Prop 8, and supporters of Prop H held a Yes on H / No on 8 rally at 11am Sunday morning. The San Francisco community came out in force in the Castro district of San Francisco. They were joined by Assemblyman Mark Leno, Supervisors Tom Ammiano, Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi, Robert Haaland from Pride at Work, Rafael Mandelman of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and former PUC General Manager Susan Leal.

PG&E has spent over $9 million against Prop H (the Clean Energy Act) and has given a few hundred thousand dollars to the No on 8 campaign (to preserve marriage equality). PG&E’s cynical attempt to curry favor in the LGBTQ community has been overshadowed by the overwhelming support Prop H has received from LGBTQ leaders and community members. The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, and Pride at Work have all endorsed proposition H.< /p>

Check out the pictures HERE

Thanks to Fog City Journal of the video.

This past weekend Global Exchange and California Student Sustainability Coalition  brought students from all over California to San Francisco State University for 3 days of campaigning workshops, media training, and networking opportunities to take back to their campuses and communities and continue their work to curb climate change. The weekend came together with a rally supporting Prop H with Julian Davis, Ross Mirkarimi, Mark Leno, and 100’s of students. The rally included wind turbines being erected, supporting public transit at a near by Muni station, with chatting singing and street theatre. It was a perfect example of the next generation taking the steps to secure clean energy for their future.

Check of some more pictures HERE.

Saturday, Oct. 25
10:00am
meet at 1519 Sanchez St (between 29th and Valley)
Precinct walking in Noe Valley area, south part of District 8

We’ll have some morning snacks (bagels & cream cheese, fruit juice, coffee & tea) and from there we’ll go out in pairs to walk precincts and drop literature (we should be all done by 1pm)
Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be there so we have enough materials for everyone.
Contact: June at 415-425-3733 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com to RSVP

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Sunday, Oct. 26
11:00am
at corner of Castro & Market Streets
“No on 8, Yes on H!” Rally followed by precinct walking
The Prop H campaign will be joining up with the Harvey Milk & Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Clubs for a “No on 8, Yes on H!” Rally, followed by precinct walking to get the word out on both these important Propositions.
Susan Leal and others prominent leaders will speak at the rally.
Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be there so we have enough materials for everyone.
Contact: June at 415-425-3733 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com to RSVP

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ANYTIME
If you’re up for doing some phonecalling, contact Darrow at 415-618-9074 and he’ll run a phone bank at 580 Hayes for whatever times people indicate they are available to make calls.  If the location doesn’t work for you, contact Darrow at 415-618-9074 or email dlsprague@gmail.com and he can get you a phone script and list of voters phone numbers to call from your own phone.

Or if you’d like to do some precinct walking other than the times and locations listed above, contact June at 415-575-5542 or email june@sfcleanenergy.com and she can get you your own precinct map and Prop H literature to distribute for where and when it’s most convenient for you.

Want to help put up Prop H signs?
contact June at 415-575-5542 or email  june@sfcleanenergy.com

Or help out doing data entry and campaign office work?
contact June at 415-575-5542 or email  june@sfcleanenergy.com

See you soon!

crosspost from: http://bruhner.blogspot.com/

Photo courtesy of Luke Thomas Fog City Journal

Here is a great first-hand report from the Prop H pre-party and Concert w/ Cake!:

Here is the deal, I got an email from the Independent on Divisadero telling me that Cake was going to play there for a special benefit blah blah blah. I wanted to see Cake at a small venue and I was excited. By the time I figured out that my wife and I could both go, all that was left were the expensive VIP tickets and I really wanted to go so I bought them. The VIP tickets allowed us to go to a meet and greet and I sort of hate those things because the band is supposed to be nice to you because you paid more….. blah, blah blah so we figured we would just go to the show.

OK, Ok so get to the point. Well I got an email a few days before the show and it said come for food and drink etc. and the address was intiguing so we decided to go. The house was a grand old victorian with an amazing history all it’s own. the vibe was mellow and friendly and I walked past John McCrea (lead singer of Cake) on my way in trying to act non chalant…… I was so damn successful at the non chalant thing that i did not speak to John all night. I did get in 2 different conversation circles with him though and he had a bit of a sore throat so he was sipping hot tea.
Continue…

So we are hanging out and checking out this amazing house and the owner said it was OK to go anywhere in the house and have a look around and it was a truly amazing pad! As we are looking around and chatting here and there, we keep noticing these people getting really excited about proposition H and we learn that the gist of it is that they want to achieve 100% clean energy in San Francisco by 2040 and PG& E is spending millions to try and stop it. Think about that folks, PG$E is spending millions of dollars they collected from you to try and defeat this proposition. You need to get informed and make your own decisions. We heard from Alix Rosenthal and Julian Davis from the campaign and John McCrea spoke for a minute as well. When Ross Mirkarimi spoke to us, I got really fired up and excited.

Read the rest of the post and see video of the party and concert at http://bruhner.blogspot.com/

Here too!! http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/

Join us at Club Six for a night of hip hop, artists, and clean energy advocates.

When:Thursday Oct 16

9pm-2am

Where: Club Six
60 Sixth St.
hidden between Market/Mission 
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.863.1221

Who: Sallassie, Pills& Jacketts, The Weather Underground, A-1, Dj Malcolm Marshall

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Temple Room of Poleng Lounge
1751 Fulton St., (near USF)
San Francisco

Local leaders invite you to
mingle over live Jazz among friends who share your concern for global warming,
or enjoy dinner at The Temple Room of Poleng Lounge.

Speakers:
District 5 Supervisor – Ross Mirkarimi
SF Clean Energy Act (Prop H) – Julian Davis
Sierra Club – John Rizzo
Pacific Primary - Fif Ghobadian
Smith Group/Leap – Kyle Brunnel

Schedule:
Mix and mingle begins at 6:00 PM
Speakers begin at 8:00 PM

Live jazz performed by…
Miles Ahead
www.myspace.com/milesaheadwest

For more info, contact kandace@nopanetworking.com or kipfinder@gmail.com

100% of the $25 sliding scale voluntary donation will benefit the S.F. Clean Energy Act

Note: Dinner guests should RSVP directly with Poleng lounge (call 415 - 441-1710). The bar will also be open for cocktails and mingling.

Hosts:
Kandace Jeromin, Kip Fuller, Mollie Poe, Ellyn Parker, Leela Gil, NOPA Networking, Saeda Fuller, Dan Nguyen-Tan