Welcome to Sustainable San Rafael

Marin Clean Energy is up and running. . . . . . . NOW!

And YOU can get 100% Renewable Energy . . . . TODAY!

After six years of careful planning,

After dozens of public education meetings,

After hundreds of letters to the Editor,

And, despite PG&E's attempts to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt . . . .

MCE is now online and serving customers

Marin Clean Energy is currently serving about 15% of Marin Homes and businesses, and will expand to serve everyone in the county this July. The default plan for everyone is "Light Green" which delivers 51% clean, renewable power (PG&E is currently 17% renewable.) Watch your mail starting April 1 for complete details. You don't have to do anything to join. Just sit back and start feeling better about your carbon footprint.

Join MCE "Deep Green" today

windfarmcropped If you just can't wait to start reducing your greenhouse gas emissions, and if you're willing to pay a little more to be extra green, The "Deep Green" option is for you. Anyone in Marin can join MCE right now at the 100% renewable Deep Green level. The cost is approximately 10% over your current PG&E rates, which for most residential customers is an increase of less than $10 per month.

Sign up today for Deep Green at the MCE website or by calling MCE at 888-632-2734. Either way, be sure to have your PG&E bill handy, because you 'll need your account number and meter number from it. It only takes a minute. Then you can relax, knowing you've done something significant to clear the air and help fight global warming.

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This page last updated 3/1/12

"Hell & High Water" Sells out!

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On February 27, a full house attended Sustainable San Rafael's "Hell and High Water" event to hear author Mark Hurtsgaard discuss local adaptation to climate change and his book, Hot, Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. His key point was that today we have to walk two paths: On one hand we must find ways to "Manage the unavoidable" in order to deal with temperature increase and sea level rise of 3 to 6 feet that is locked-in by carbon that is already in the atmosphere. At the same time, we must find the political will to achieve massive reductions in future carbon emissions in order to "Avoid the unmanagable" - temperture increases and sea level rise so great they would end life as we know it. The discussion will continue at our March 29 event (below.)

Click here to watch Video of Mark's presentation

Hell and High Water, Part 2:

Adapting to Climate Change in San Rafael and Marin.

Thursday March 29, 7:00 PM

San Rafael City Hall Council Chambers, 1400 Fifth Avenue

Join us to meet three local planning professionals and learn how they are approaching the hard realities of climate change and sea level rise. Continue the conversation about what Marin acn do to adapt to sea level rising water and other impacts that are happening right now - - while keeping the crisis manageable by leading the transition off fossil fuels. For more information or questions, e-mail Bill Carney

Speakers:

• Joe LaClair, Chief Planner, SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission

• Jeremy Lowe, Sea Level Rise Specialist, Environmental Science Associates

• Paul Jensen, Director of Community Development, City of San Rafae

Co-sponsored by: Sustainable San Rafael, Environmental Forum of Marin and the Gallinas Watershed Council