On the heels of the Paris Climate Accord,  the Sierra Club has just rolled out the “Ready for 100” campaign (http://www.sierraclub.org/ready-for-100).

This initiative strives to get cities and other entities to legally bind themselves to go 100% renewable energy by 2030.

Already cities such as San Diego, San Francisco, and Aspen have made the pledge.

Cities are a great place to engineer change in the way we receive power. More than half of the world’s people live in cities
and that number is only climbing. Urban areas have diversified economies and sound government structures, are nimbler
than the federal government, and have a more decentralized power structure which make them ripe for activists to advocate
for concepts such as Ready for 100. They are also responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases in our country and many
of them are in vulnerable areas with regards to the effects of climate change.

The Thomas Hart Benton Group of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club is working with like-minded partners to pressfor Kansas City, Missouri to pledge
that all municipal operations be powered by clean, renewable energy by the year 2030. Our goal is to have the city’s pledge
galvanize more companies and other entities to embrace the challenge as well as to make the region a beacon for renewable power.
The opportunity is ripe for Kansas City to embrace this pledge and be a leader in this area. Our City government is forward-thinking
and concerned about climate change, as this region is expected to be one of the hardest hit.

This goal would ambitiously build on the City’s current Climate Protection Plan. We need your help to make this happen! Contact
Bill Griffith at bgriffith6@kc.rr.com or Zay Thompson at funkytown.zay@gmail.com to join this effort.