Reinventing Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom
Presented by the Sierra Club
Our meeting will start at 7:30pm at the San Bernardino County Museum, 2014 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands.
The Sierra Club’s most recent documentary film, Reinventing Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom, will be shown at the San Gorgonio Chapter meeting October 2. The film takes the viewer across the country to hear directly from the people making our clean energy future achievable. These individuals are working to rebuild what’s broken, rethink what’s possible, and revitalize communities.
Critically, Reinventing Power underscores the notion that jobs, economic growth and innovation don’t have to be sacrificed for a clean environment. Over the film’s 50 minutes, it focuses on people in eight states whose lives were changed by the renewable energy industry while exploring various aspects of clean energy from innovation to installation.
The film, which was produced by Los Angeles based Transit Pictures and Executive Producer Amber Valletta of A Squared Films, premiered on June 5, 2018, in Los Angeles. The full film will be available to watch in Fall 2018. For more information, see https://www.sierraclub.org/reinventing-power.
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said, “Clean energy is more than just a solar panel, wind turbine, electric car or a battery. It is an industry driven by thousands of hard working people in every state across our country. We wanted to tell the story of the people building our clean energy future, driving innovation, and fighting for community access. This is a true American story and the people behind the scenes are worth celebrating.”
Tony Valentino, Reinventing Power’s Director, issued the following statement, “Through the course of making this film, we met incredible people who showed us the depth of this industry. Clean energy is helping people find new opportunities as our economy shifts, it’s bringing in steady revenue for our farmers, and it is driving breakthroughs in clean technology. We saw how clean energy is made and got to experience how it is changing people’s lives for the better in a deeply personal way. It is exciting and an honor to share these stories with the world.”
