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DESCRIPTION:Green Sunday (11/10):  Energy Crises/PG&E, with Jessica Guadalupe Tovar     
  \n**************************************************\nJust what has 
 changed with energy, why, and how does it affect you?  Why will your 
 monthly energy bill increase?  What are alternative ways of providing 
 energy, other than from PG&E, and how do various California cities source 
 their energy?  The Green Party of Alameda County warmly invites you to 
 participate in this dialogue for an engaged community 
 response!\n\n**************************************************\nJessica 
 Guadalupe Tovar is an Energy Democracy Organizer with the Local Clean 
 Energy Alliance, based in the SF Bay Area, and grew up in housing projects 
 near an industrial pollution corridor in East Los Angeles. The experience 
 of cancer in her family led her to focus on preventing and reducing local 
 industrial pollution and to advocate for policies to protect vulnerable 
 communities. Jessica has worked for 16 years as an environmental justice 
 and health organizer in a variety of urban, rural, and indigenous 
 communities throughout California and Arizona.\n\nJessica interned with the 
 Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative in 2003, working with 
 organizations across the U.S. on issues of climate justice. In the Bay 
 Area, she helped shut down the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant in 2004 and 
 in 2010, successfully mobilized against a tar sands-dirty crude expansion 
 of the Chevron Richmond oil refinery. She conducted and co-published an 
 NIEHS Air Sampling Study in Richmond, California, for use as advocacy 
 against toxic chemicals that are known to cause and/or aggravate adverse 
 health effects like asthma, developmental problems, and cancer.\n\nShe 
 speaks on environmental/climate racism at educational institutions and has 
 been featured on TV & radio in Germany, France, Mexico, and Cuba. She 
 currently promotes equity in clean energy as the coordinator of the East 
 Bay Clean Power Alliance, which has advanced local clean energy solutions 
 by creating East Bay Community Energy, a public energy services provider 
 agency that is now providing electricity for 1.5 million people in Alameda 
 County. The Local Clean Energy Alliance is jumpstarting a just transition 
 with a Local Development Business Plan--A Green New Deal for Alameda County 
 with net revenues from East Bay Community Energy.  As of June 2019, we won 
 $5.1M towards advancing clean energy programs and projects to build 
 community energy resilience and wealth we need to bring Clean Power to the 
 People!\n\n**************************************************\nGreen 
 Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics "du 
 jour" sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd 
 Sunday of each month. Snacks are potluck. Vegetarian and vegan snacks are 
 always welcome, but we appreciate whatever you can bring! The monthly 
 business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows, at 6:45 
 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/09/18827945.php
SUMMARY:Energy Crises/PG&E, with Jessica Tovar, Coordinator of the East Bay Clean Power Alliance
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., near Alcatraz, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/09/18827945.php
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