By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

This series of videos highlights several speakers from the “RePower LA” community meeting at the Pacoima Community Center on November 5, 2011. Speakers include Ricardo De Los Santos, a DWP trainee weatherizing low-income homes for energy efficiency; Eric Garcetti, the president of the Los Angeles City Council; Kent Minault, volunteer coordinator for the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign; and Ron Nichols, the general manager of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.

By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

A coalition of civil society groups, including the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Pacoima Beautiful, and the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, meet in the Pacoima Community Center on November 5, 2011 in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, CA, to share the thinking behind the RePower LA project, which seeks to achieve financial and environmental savings by improving energy-efficiency in the homes of area residents, and creating hundreds of new “green” jobs in the process.

By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

Kent Minault, the Volunteer Coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign in the San Fernando Valley discusses the economic benefits of moving LA away from coal as an energy source, the steps to increasing our energy efficiency, and the rise of the Beyond Coal movement, a volunteer-driven effort that is gaining momentum across the city.

By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

Citizens organize a petition drive in the San Fernando Valley of northern Los Angeles on September 24, 2011, as part of the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. Los Angeles currently gets around 40% of its electricity from two dirty coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Utah, and while the city already has a plan to move away from coal over time, the Sierra Club wants to accelerate the pace of change, so that LA is beyond coal by 2020.