Ready for 100 rally in Pueblo, Colorado
This has been a disorienting week. As I’ve been talking to friends, reading my Facebook feed, even riding the bus or out getting exercise, I hear people asking what the election results will mean for them and for our country.
A lot of people are scared. Scared for people they love, for the diversity of our communities, for fairness and safety, and for a stable and secure future. But what rises to the top at this moment is the way that friends, co-workers, and communities are banding together to comfort one another, to pray, to protest, and to plan for what’s next.
There will no doubt be vicious attacks on the progress we’ve made to protect our health, the climate and our environment. But the power of communities to find solutions and forge ahead through uncertainty has never been more evident.
Across America, from towns like Hanover, New Hampshire to the bustling metropolis of Los Angeles, California, communities are working toward a vision for our country where families can raise their kids free from toxic pollution, where there are good jobs and growing industries, and where everyone has access to healthy and affordable clean, renewable energy.
This vision, and the progress that communities are making to achieve it, doesn’t change one iota in light of this election. In fact, local progress led by a movement of individuals, neighborhoods, schools, churches, and cities across the country is more important than ever.
We are working in more than two dozen cities and towns across the United States to support communities in achieving a vision of 100 percent clean, renewable energy.
Almost 20 cities have already committed to trade in all fossil fuels for 100 percent renewable energy. Later this month, the Saint Petersburg City Council is poised to vote on a measure that will move the city to 100 percent clean, renewable energy for all electricity. Their progress cannot be undermined or undone.
From coast to coast, the shift to 100 percent clean energy has never been dependent upon federal action. It’s happening because communities have banded together to demand choices and solutions that reflect local values. Community-by-community, city-by-city, state-by-state we will continue to usher in clean energy and fight with our neighbors, partners and allies for justice.
Now is the moment for Mayors and local leaders everywhere to go all in on an equitable clean energy transition that protects the diversity, dignity, and humanity of our country.
I’m #ReadyFor100 and I’m ready to keep fighting for a better, brighter, safer future.