Green Friday

GREEN FRIDAY meets on the second Friday of the month in the Sierra Club Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley. Doors open 7pm; the program runs from 7:30 to 9:30 including questions and discussion. Refreshments are served. $3 donation is requested. Our programs present speakers and topics discussing the most important environmental issues of our time.  All are welcome, Sierra Club members as well as nonmembers.

Our speaker for Friday, Feb. 13 will be Jess Dervin-Ackerman, conservation manager for the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter.   Jess will discuss the dangerous and unnecessary proposals to bring crude oil and coal by train into the Bay Area.  As the Sierra Club works across the United States to successfully retire coal fired power plants and reduce our use of coal to create electricity, coal companies are making moves to attempt to export coal to foreign markets that are still ramping up their use of coal for electricity.  In addition, the world is running out of conventional crude oil that we use to produce things like jet fuel and gasoline.  Big Oil has turned to more extreme kinds of crudes that have higher risks throughout the extraction, transport, and refining processes.  Jess will talk about what extreme fossil fuel projects are proposed for the Bay Area, how the Sierra Club is fighting to keep these fuels out of our communities, and the Sierra Club's plan to leave these extreme fuels in the ground and transition to a clean energy economy.