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'Cool Cities Campaign' Comes to Colorado
 The
Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra Club is focusing its Building Environmental
Community (BEC) campaign around the Sierra Club’s new Cool Cities
Campaign,
in order to educate and solicit support for addressing climate change from
Sierra
Club
members, the public, media, organizations and businesses, mayors and city council
members.
Currently, Colorado's front range metro area gets most of its electricity
from coal, which is known to cause air pollution, global warming and health
problems.
Transportation
also contributes a substantial amount to the metro area’s air pollution.
Colorado’s public and private lands are under threat of development to
natural gas and coal bed methane. To keep up with rapid population growth,
utilities want to meet future electricity demand with coal and natural gas
plants.
Instead, we can do better in Colorado by focusing our efforts on promoting
clean and renewable energy like wind plants, rooftop solar PV, concentrated
solar plants, green buildings, fuel efficiency, car emissions standards and
hybrid cars.
We believe the Cool Cities Campaign offers the best opportunity for
our Sierra Club chapter and groups to address global warming and to engage both
our members and new constituencies in a unique sustainable organizing
capacity role for the Sierra Club. The Cool Cities Campaign will primarily
focus on front range cities in the greater Boulder and Jefferson County
region, from Longmont to Lakewood, from Golden to Broomfield.
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