{"id":10575,"date":"2019-01-10T23:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/d-c-just-made-fossil-free-history__trashed-copy\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:29:26","slug":"d-c-just-made-fossil-free-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/d-c-just-made-fossil-free-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How D.C. Made Fossil Free History."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. just made climate history last month by passing a <a href=\"http:\/\/lims.dccouncil.us\/Legislation\/B22-0904?FromSearchResults=true\">landmark bill<\/a> that will allow the city to undergo a rapid, just transition away from dirty fossil fuels to a 100% clean, renewable energy future.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years of coalition-building with local climate, energy, and environmental justice leaders, made the bill a victory for climate justice and social equity. The success of this Fossil Free campaign was largely attributed to intentional coalition building with low income community members, in order to ensure\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that all voices were considered in pushing for this victory.\u00a0CCAN, Sierra Club, Interfaith Power and Light, NRDC, Citizen Climate Lobby and more were essential to this effort along with 350 DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4HIXNZOvX8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We caught up with <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">350 D.C. organizer, Barbara Briggs, who offered her insights as to how the D.C. coalition was able to successfully execute their Fossil Free campaign. Barbara discusses the importance of equity and coalition building in creating campaigns that are inclusive, comprehensive, and powerful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWkkmzRE42g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the recent IPCC report on climate change that indicated there\u2019s only a little over a decade left to avoid climate catastrophe, it is extremely important that local communities take action. It is time for us to lead Fossil Free campaigns across the world and to reclaim the future we want &#8211; one with a just transition away from dirty fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy that provides jobs and well-being to the communities most impacted by the climate crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sign up below to join our email list and learn more about how you can get involved in the fight for a Fossil Free world. <a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/#map\">To find a campaign near you or start one of your own, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\nlabel.rsform__field--label {<br \/>    color: #0f81e8;<br \/>    display: block;<br \/>    font-weight: bold;<br \/>    padding: 0.5em 0.6em 0;<br \/>    font-size: 0.75em;<br \/>    letter-spacing: 0.05em;<br \/>    text-transform: uppercase;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>.rsform--custom_html {<br \/>    font-size: 65%;<br \/>    font-style: italic;<br \/>    padding-bottom: 14px;<br \/>    padding-top: 8px;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>input.rsform--submit__btn:hover {<br \/>    box-shadow: 0 0 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);<br \/>    color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8) !important;<br \/>    text-decoration: none;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<p>p.rs_success {<br \/>    font-weight: bold;<br \/>}<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"form-text\">\n<h3>Build a Fossil Free World<\/h3>\n<div class=\"form-intro\">\n<p>Sign up here to get plugged into local organizing for a Fossil Free world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/\/\/\/ This is an Action Kit form that syncs mobile phone #s to Revere Mobile (for SMS blasting) \/\/\/\/ The Action Kit form will render inside the div --><\/p>\n<div id=\"revere-sync\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/sync.revmsg.net\/form\/v2\/d89206c0-5aa9-4f15-bcd1-5f6bc859b6eb\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Washington D.C. passed one of the most ambitious pieces of climate legislation in U.S. history &#8211; The\u00a0Clean Energy DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018 &#8211; which requires the city to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2032 and to invest millions of dollars in clean energy and sustainability projects that will benefit all D.C. residents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":10587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}