MISSION TRANSITION

CLEAN ENERGY AND BEYOND

“We’re in a climate emergency, and to address it we need nothing short of a rapid and wide-reaching transition. Sierra Club BC’s podcast Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond asks some of the big and critical questions this transition brings, with insightful commentary from a spectrum of voices on how we might reimagine our energy future. This series is worth a listen.” – Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria

Nearly every day now, we hear of some new innovation moving the world toward clean energy. For many of us, this means installing solar panels, buying an electric vehicle or maybe giving up the car altogether.

But this transition raises many questions most people haven’t even started to consider. What actually counts as clean energy? Who should make decisions about how it’s produced—and how do these projects impact communities? How do we need to rethink land use in a clean energy economy?

Sierra Club BC’s podcast Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond dives into these questions and more with interviews from thinkers and doers who are all passionate about making the transition happen.

Mission Transition is hosted by award-winning former CBC journalist Susan Elrington along with Caitlyn Vernon, Campaigns Director with Sierra Club BC. Subscribe for free today on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app.

This is a conversation. Follow and tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to tell us what you think about clean energy in BC!

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Get show notes and bonus material for each episode:

Bonus Interview: Growing Food All Winter Long

March 29, 2018

Susan Elrington visits Matthias Zapatal at Northern Bioponics in Prince George to learn about aquaponics and how we can grow food locally year round.

Episode 5: Who Owns Our Power?

March 22, 2018

In Episode 5 of our podcast Mission Transition we look at who owns our power - and who should own our power.

Episode 4: First Nations Leading The Way

March 15, 2018

In Episode 4 of Mission Transition, we look at the innovative ways First Nations are producing clean energy in BC.

Bonus Interview: Skilling Up For The Next Economy

February 26, 2018

Susan Elrington sits down with Lliam Hildebrand to hear how Iron & Earth is helping oil, gas and coal workers transition to the clean energy economy.

Episode 3: Jobs in Clean Energy

February 14, 2018

In Episode 3 we challenge assumptions about energy jobs in BC and talk about what happens to jobs as we shift to the next economy. Which jobs will disappear and how will workers make the transition to clean energy?

Bonus Interview: The Lego Block House

February 8, 2018

Susan interviews the man who’s building his house out of super energy-efficient hemp lego blocks—and the man whose company makes them.

Episode 2: Building Smarter

February 7, 2018

Houses made of hemp? Buildings that cut your energy use by 90 percent? In Episode 2 of Sierra Club BC's Mission Transition, we look at how the clean energy economy will change the ways we build.

Bonus Interview: Victoria’s Vintage Iconic… Electric Buses!?

February 7, 2018

Susan talks with John and Andrew Wilson about converting Victoria's vintage 1960s double decker sightseeing buses to electric power.

Episode 1: Electric Vehicles

February 5, 2018

In the first episode of Sierra Club BC's podcast Mission Transition, we ask: what's the deal with electric vehicles in BC?

Mission Transition: Clean Energy Podcast Teaser

February 5, 2018

Mission: Transition is a Sierra Club BC podcast exploring British Columbia's move to a new clean energy economy.

How much money are you spending to subsidize the fossil fuel industry?

A lot, it turns out! Federal subsidies to oil and gas corporations have been pegged at $3.3 billion per year. Yes, you read that right. And the BC government offers provincial subsidies to oil and gas corporations to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, in the form of royalty reductions.

What else could we do with that money? How about building the infrastructure to move away from fossil fuels altogether, and supporting communities through this transition?

The new BC government promised to make climate solutions a priority. Now’s the time for action to end massive handouts in subsidies to the oil and gas industry, and invest in the clean energy economy instead.

Please send a letter calling on Premier Horgan and BC’s environment and energy ministers to keep their promise to move BC toward a green economy with well-paying jobs across the province:

Tell Premier Horgan: Power up BC's clean energy economy

Your Letter
Dear Premier Horgan, Minister Heyman and Minister Mungall, With the PowerBC Plan, your government promised to establish British Columbia as a world leader in the clean energy economy. To scale up this new economy, we need to be investing in the solutions to climate change—not the causes of it. I am calling on you to keep your promise and move BC toward a strong clean energy economy by: • Shifting BC subsidies away from oil and gas and investing instead in wind, solar, geothermal, small-scale hydro and other emerging renewable energy technologies in partnership with First Nations • Saving taxpayers money with energy efficiency retrofits to public buildings like schools and hospitals • Promoting energy conservation programs for homes and commercial buildings • Providing the funding communities need to establish strong public transit infrastructure and an expanded network of electric vehicle charging stations • Providing protection to workers and a just transition to a green economy with apprenticeship and training programs that lead to long term, well-paying jobs in communities across BC • Ensuring that BC’s energy transition is based in justice for Indigenous communities and in line with BC’s commitments to reconciliation and upholding the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Taking meaningful climate action can make BC’s economy stronger if we do it right. Please act now to ensure a genuinely green future for this province. Thank you.
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