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Promote Smart Energy Use and Stop Global Warming

Conserve Energy in Your Daily Life

The Northeast Florida Group of the Sierra Club works with the Jacksonville Electric Authority on their Clean (Green) Power program. In 1999, JEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sierra Club and the American Lung Association of Florida that details a commitment to generate at least 7.5 percent of our electric capacity from clean and green energy sources by 2015.  Learn more about JEA's Clean Power program.

What's your Carbon Footprint? 

There are many on-line carbon footprint calculators. Try this one that was featured at our April-08 Jacksonville General Meeting, the Clearwater Carbon Calculator (an Excel worksheet). You'll need to collect some data about your family's activities--make some estimates if need be--then you can consider the results and make some changes.  Tell other people about what you discover.  Reduce, Reuse and Recycle--AND eat local food! If you would recommend additions to our community references, please share with us your advice.  Further, become part of the Jacksonville Carbon Neutral Initiative (JCNI).

Our Northeast Florida Energy Future 

We have embarked on a quest--to develop a vision of our community's energy future. We meet in circles of interest as part of our Cool Cities campaign commitment. Help us draw the map and learn about our prospective story by getting involved with our campaign. See the following links to learn the facts about global warming and how they relate to our local environment.

Read our white paper about Energy and Global Warming (also see documentation related to this paper). You can also download this information in a trifold brochure format. (All documents in PDF format).

Contact Tom Larson if you want to get involved with our Cool Cities camapaign.

Featured Articles

• Cool Your City
  by Tom Larson --2006
  All over America, communities are taking action to help solve global warming. The Cool Cities campaign helps cities turn their commitments into action by pushing for smart energy solutions.
  

• Mayor takes first step to making Jacksonville a Cool City
  08-17-2007
  Several weeks ago, in an unannounced, so-far unpublicized action, Mayor Peyton signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement (USMCPA).
  

• Make Your Home a Cool Home
  01-11-2007
  You can take control of global warming with your own actions right at home. Use the checklist for good ideas to cool down your home.
  

• Are You Still Being Fooled by Bottled Water?
  by Cate Dobbins, Loretto Environmental Club Parent Advisor 05--2008
  Bottled water marketing is just about the most unbelievable ploy ever devised to fool a consumer -- and the bottles are a huge waste of oil and energy.
  

• Recycle your electronic waste!
  01-27-2008
  Replacing a computer, television, fax machine? Read this before you toss it to the curb! Your electronics contain possibly hazardous materials that should be recycled.
  

• St. Augustine Beach signs up for Cool Cities
  11-20-2007
  St. Augustine Beach has made the commitment! Let's make all of Northeast Florida Cool. It’s time for citizen action. We need you to join in the campaign to help our local cities and counties to get green. Across Northeast Florida, we are forming Cool Cities campaign teams to help our mayors to undertake the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
  

• Energy Conservation In the Home
  by Janet Stanko --
  Our own Janet Stanko writes a regular column in the Florida Times-Union about how you can conserve energy in your home.
  

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