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Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER)
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Project Summary / Description:
Our project is turning Garfield Clean Energy (a countywide comprehensive program that has been cutting carbon and diversifying the economy over 9 years) into a turn-key, franchisable Clean Energy Program that is easily replicated in many other rural regions. We get many requests from people and regions on how they could replicate Garfield Clean Energy where they live. We need a simple way to respond to these requests. There is an urgent need for approaches that build capacity to understand and implement clean energy and diversify rural economies so that regions that feel left behind by the economy or angry or fearful about what climate protection means for local jobs have a chance to participate in positive ways in the benefits clean energy. Currently, it is primarily affluent and more urban communities that have clean energy programs (such as Boulder and Aspen). This project is spurred by the need for many more regions to have access to clean energy programs for local benefits and economic diversification. Programs replicable in rural regions are a key to either sustained progress on federal policy, and can help build momentum for larger scale policy changes. We have started working on this concept, and need investment funds to develop the product. Every program we run needs to be further turned in to systematized approaches that are teachable and transferable, accompanied by the templates and programs that can be easily tailored to each region that would want to use them.
Regions of Operations:
Southeast Asia
South Asia
East Asia
Central Asia
Middle East
North America
South America
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
East Africa
North Africa
Southern Africa
Central Africa
Oceania
Caribbean
Other Countries
Best Estimate of GHG Avoidance/Reduction of This Project (Tonnes CO2 Equivalent/Year):
Sub-Categories:
Renewables
Nature-based
Agriculture
Methane
Plastics
Built Environment
Energy Efficiency
Restoration
Biodiversity
Energy storage
Rural
Urban
Circular Economy
Oceans
Forests
Waste
Carbon Removal
Electric Transportation
Cooling Solutions
Technology
Advocacy
Biomass
Conservation
Clean Cooking
Environmental justice
Research or Economic Modeling
Measurement, Reporting & Validation
Communications
Mission Statement:
The mission of CLEER is to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, increase energy independence, and reduce contributions to climate change. CLEER envisions a thriving, prosperous region with an economy that minimizes environmental impacts, maximizes resource efficiency and use of renewables, as part of an economically thriving world, free of the devastating effects of climate change. CLEER has been working for the past decade to cut carbon emissions while diversifying our regional economy. Our expertise is centered on energy efficiency, renewable energy, alternative transportation fuels and community economic development. CLEER‚ energy coaching team works directly with community leaders, schools, businesses and households to help speed the implementation of clean energy upgrades. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are (a quote attributed to Teddy Roosevelt) has been a guiding mantra for our organization. While dramatic technological advancements and policy changes are needed, we see that empowering many rural regions that may be feeling left behind by various economic changes as a key to larger-scale change. We believe that larger scale change can occur and be sustained on an ongoing basis when people throughout the US in many different regions feel empowered and have the tools, capacity, resources, knowledge and investment approaches to create a clean energy economy, and no region is left behind. Our proposed project seeks to find a way to provide this package of skills and programs needed for a region to accelerate progress on creating a clean energy economy.
Link: Facebook:
http://www.garfieldcleanenergy.org
http://www.cleanenergyeconomy.net
http://www.BuildingEnergyNavigator.com
