New Clean Energy Campaign Kicks-Off Wednesday Night

In case you haven't heard, there's a privately-funded organization that's come to Texas designed to put young people with in interest in environmental organizing out in the field to do good works while getting paid a small stipend. It's called Greencorps, and while it's 20 years old, this year is the first time any Greencorp members have shown up in Dallas-Fort Worth.

In particular, newly graduated Biology major and GreenCorp member Lisa Trope is here on behalf of Sierra Club's Clean Energy Works campaign that seeks to promote wind, geothermal and solar alternatives to fossil fuels. She's trying to get people to sign a petition to have the Texas Public Utility Commission commit itself to renewable energy target amounts and dates – much like the legislature did a decade ago or more in an effort that saw the birth of the Texas wind energy industry.

Surrounded by gas mining and processing pollution and downwind from coal plant emissions, DFW could use all the clean energy it could get. Lisa is having her first organizing meeting tomorrow night – Wednesday, September 19th, from 7 to 9 pm at the Bachman Lake Public Library's Black Box Auditorium. Do you remember your first organizing experiences? Please attend, make Lisa feel at home, and welcome her into the small DFW community of people who give a damn.