Brooks, Eric

Brooks is a grassroots organizer and San Francisco Community Choice advocate. He began with Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) in the mid 1980's and is now coordinator of the San Francisco based environmental, consumer protection, and social justice organization, Our City: www.our-city.org. Panel Power by the People: How to Get Local Clean Energy Do you want your community powered by windmills and solar panels, and freed from its dependence on private corporations? Through a program called Community Choice, your city can choose locally produced, city-owned, renewable energy. Hear about San Francisco’s pioneering plan to provide its residents with at least 50 percent renewable energy by 2017. You’ll come away empowered to support local clean energy in your community.