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Green Corps organizers are mobilizing grassroots support for a clean energy ballot measure in Missouri this fall. |
When Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy, a statewide coalition of groups seeking to bring renewable energy to Missouri, needed a team of organizers to mobilize grassroots support for a clean energy ballot measure, they called on Green Corps.
Throughout the world and the United States the need for renewable energy is evident - for our economy, our environment and our children. As a nation we generate only 7 percent of our electricity from renewable energy. Energies such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal are underutilized—despite their benefits.
Missouri is 20th in the nation for available wind resources, but 45th in realization of that local resource. Generating more of our electricity from renewables such as wind and solar will mean more jobs, a stronger economy, and cleaner air and water for generations of Missourians to come.
Missourians for Cleaner Cheaper Energy is a coalition of groups—including Renew Missouri, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and the American Wind Energy Association—working to pass a Renewable Energy Standard by ballot this fall. If successful, this measure will require Missouri utilities to gradually increase their use of renewable energy over the next 12 years, ramping up to 15 percent of Missouri's electricity by the year 2020.
Moving toward a new renewable future will require Missourians to speak loud and clear. This fall, a team of seven Green Corps organizers is educating and activating thousands of Missouri voters about the ballot initiative.
