Courtney Bourgoin, Courtney.Bourgoin@sierraclub.org
San Francisco, CA-- Twenty-one women who are leading climate solution efforts across the country will meet at a collaboratory to address pressing environmental and climate challenges, and ways to transform their own work into scalable solutions for the United States. The collaboratory is a part of a four-month program-- the US Climate Accelerator-- where women leaders work to expand their community successes on climate mitigation and adaptation to a national level. Accelerator participants include government officials from US territories, directors of non-governmental organizations, business leaders, youth organizers and other transformative leaders.
WHAT: Next week, 21 women leading the Sierra Club and Women's Earth Alliance’s US Climate Accelerator will meet at an in-person collaboratory to discuss climate solutions-- to bring light to their communities’ stories and work to scale-up their grassroots solutions to the climate crisis.
The four-month U.S. Accelerator is designed to catalyze the critical efforts of women leaders who have stepped forward to protect families, communities, and ecosystems from environmental and climate threats.
WHEN:
IN-PERSON COLLABORATORY: From Monday, October 13th- Friday, October 18th, 2019
WHERE:
IN-PERSON COLLABORATORY will be held at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, located at 15290 Coleman Valley Rd., Occidental, CA 95465.
Reporters are invited to all collaboratory events (pgs. 3-8) and may contact Courtney.Bourgoin@sierraclub.org if interested in attending. Participants and US Climate Accelerator directors Amira Diamond (Women’s Earth Alliance) and A.Tianna Scozzaro (Sierra Club) are all available for interview on-site or remotely.
WHO:
21 leaders from across the country who have led successful climate solution efforts.Read more about the participants here, who include a Senator from Guam, women innovating on regenerative agriculture, Indigenous leaders, youth activists and more.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3.5 million members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.