Recently I was fortunate enough to visit with some longtime E2 members in Silicon Valley, where we got our start 18 years ago. I always love hearing stories of our early advocacy trips to Sacramento, seeing the camaraderie, and feeling the collective pride in helping to change our world. Earlier that day, I had lunch […]
A little more than two years ago, I was in Paris with E2 members from across the country celebrating the most important climate agreement the world has ever known. Oh, how times have changed. President Trump abandoned the Paris climate accord, leaving the United States as the only nation not doing its part to fight global […]
One of the best parts of my job is getting around the country to meet with our nine E2 chapters and some of our nearly 900 members. A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to spend some time with our great E2 New England chapter, led by Berl Hartman. New England is a special […]
If the first month of the Trump Administration and the new Congress is any indication, we have our work cut out for us defending and advancing policies that are good for our economy and our environment. From President Trump’s national energy plan that doesn’t even mention clean energy, to Congress’s near-daily attempts to rollback our […]
Earlier this month, government leaders and energy executives from around the world convened in San Francisco for the 7th International Clean Energy Ministerial, the next step in implementing the historic global climate agreement reached in Paris late last year. The first stop for some of them: E2. At an opening reception co-sponsored by E2 and […]
When E2 first started telling the story of clean energy jobs in America several years ago, naysayers in Washington were claiming clean energy was as make-believe as pixie dust and unicorns. The Solyndra failure was still fresh in the news. Coal, gas and nuclear were considered by many as the only ways to power our […]
“Raise a toast to yesterday’s achievements and tomorrow’s brighter future.” – Anonymous It’s hard to imagine a more successful close to a year than we had in in the waning weeks of 2015. Consider: *On Dec. 12 in Paris, more than 190 countries agreed to the most far-reaching climate treaty in history. Businesses were […]
War is changing: the battlefield of today is becoming increasingly decentralized. This requires the Department of Defense – a historically top-down, centralized institution – to adopt new approaches to meeting its energy needs. This is one of several insights shared by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs Sharon Burke at the […]
Des Moines. New York. St. Louis. Boston. Denver. Chicago. Brandon, S.D. For the first time in our 15 year history, E2 members, staff and advocates from those places and everywhere in between came together for one special evening, in the place where we got our start: San Francisco. Attendees at the Oct. 8 E2@15 Anniversary […]
For an idea of what we accomplished together in 2014, consider the numbers: 47: That’s how many letters, petitions and other advocacy actions we produced together this year to push for smart policies at the federal and state levels. This includes E2’s biggest action alert ever, our EPA Clean Power Plan petition and comments that […]