Clean Energy Solutions

Energy sector reform: Support policies that encourage clean energy solutions and discourage carbon-intensive energy generation and waste.
Implement national energy performance upgrades: Reduce carbon-based energy demand in new homes and buildings 100 percent and in existing buildings 50 percent by 2030.
Lead renewable energy revolution: Push for energy infrastructure that generates most of the nation's power from renewable energy by 2040 (and at least 25 percent by 2025).

28 states have passed Renewable Electricity Standard law. No one has fought in more states than the Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club and allies successfully achieved adoption of a stronger model energy code for residential buildings.
The Sierra Club is given leadership appointments on key California and Western stakeholder committees with mission to develop responsibly-sited renewable energy plans.
The Sierra Club pushed for and won improvements in international conservation codes in small to mid-rise commercial and residential buildings, resulting in an up-to-15 percent improvement in new construction and many renovations.
The Sierra Club, along with California Attorney General Jerry Brown, brought and settled a suit was against the City of Stockton, setting a breathtaking new standard that every new residential and commercial building will be far more efficient than even California's codes require--the equivalent of LEEDS certification. The City of Stockton further agreed to make new development transit-friendly.
Thanks to legislation supported by the Sierra Club, every home in Hawai'i includes a solar water heater, reducing home electricity bills by 50% and greenhouse gas emissions by 12,000 metric tons each year.

Photos: [1] Clean energy = green jobs; [2] Solar water heater, Hawai'i; [3] Wind farm in Rio Vista, CA.