Clean Power Now!

Yesterday evening the cape cod team arrived in barnstable after meeting our sixth teammate Jeff! it was a beautiful and relaxed ride along the canal followed by windy roads through salt marshes and cranberry bogs. With the team finally in tact we began to realize that this is really happening and we are going to bring the climate movement to Massachusetts' favorite vacation- The Cape! When we arrived at our destination we were amazed at how beautiful the church we are staying at is and how nice and hospitable the people are. We were provided with dinner, comfortable beds and good conversation while in the mean time setting up plans to present a symposium. After our dinner we spent some time teaching Jeff about the different team roles and what climate summer is all about, we are all very happy to have him here.

Earlier today we met in Hyannis with an organization called Clean Power Now who is working very hard to make the cape wind project, a proposed off shore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, happen. The Cape Wind project would provide 75% of the energy needs for Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard through the harvest of clean and renewable wind power. For those of us who are informed and awake it seems like a no-brainer, Cape Wind is the way to go, but there are still the special interests of the wealthy owners of beach front property (Ted Kennedy for example) who are opposing the project with all their might. These people are worried about the wind turbines ruining the beauty of the beloved Nantucket sound but, in reality, the project would be barely visible from shore and more than that... wind turbines are cool looking!

Barbara Hill, the director of Clean Power Now, has worked hard to find housing for our team on the cape and continues to help us in every way possible. She is even letting us stay at her house this weekend! I am excited to hear more of her ideas and for mass climate summer to become more closely involved with her, and many other's, initiative to have Massachusetts be the first (but definitely not the last) state in the country to have a beautifully beneficial off shore wind farm, perhaps the first step to re-powering America with 100% clean electricity in 10 years.

More to come-

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