CE - Clean Energy, Bright Futures

BEF is honored to be a collaborative partner on the Heart Butte Community Solar team, which received The Department of Energy's Sunny Award for Equitable Community Solar! 🌞

You can read more about Heart Butte School and this important project below!

Facing Budget Shortfalls, These Schools Are Turning to the Sun Public schools are increasingly using savings from solar energy to upgrade facilities, help their communities, and give teachers raises — often with no cost to taxpayers.

OR/SW WA Teachers: Join us for Exploring Renewable Gas workshop 1/21 in Portland! Featuring fundamentals of clean energy & teacher-designed curriculum focused on the role of renewable biogas and renewable hydrogen in clean energy.

Register here: https://bit.ly/CErenewablegas

Got Crypto? We now accept crypto donations through
The Giving Block! Help the next generation of clean energy leaders thrive and lead in a clean energy economy. See the BEF website for details: https://store.b-e-f.org/donate/.

Today we are incredibly proud and honored to receive the Green Power Leadership Award for Leadership in Green Power Education, presented by the Center for Resource Solutions and EPA. https://resource-solutions.org/programs/gpla/

In the face of intensive educational barriers due to the COVID-19 pandemic, BEF's CE program, along with partners such as the , , Constellation, Allegheny Intermediate Unit, and , our Clean Energy Fellows, and educators across the country, all pivoted to meet the challenges of the moment to inspire students and keep them engaged with resources and materials despite not being in their typical classroom setting.

At a time when many narratives centered around learning loss, our CE staff kicked into high gear to provide learning materials and resources to students in their homes, provide educators with effective distance learning tools, and provide support to our Clean Energy Fellows.

Kathy Hall is truly a rock star, she has the hair to prove it! Way to go Tacoma Middle School students!

BEF is searching for two outstanding individuals committed to education for an equitable clean energy, low carbon future to join the CE - Clean Energy. Bright Futures. program team.

Check the BEF website for links to each of the applications (hosted by Indeed.com) here: http://www.b-e-f.org/why-bef/careers/. We will review applications weekly - so don't delay in applying! Both listings will close on May 26th, 2021.

The need for a resilient and equitable clean energy future is clear. CE supports Clean Energy Fellows across grades K-12 in developing local programs and curriculum to elevate the genius of the next generation of energy leaders.

If you are interested in applying to be a Clean Energy Fellow for the 2021/22 school year, visit our website for more information and to apply. https://cebrightfutures.org/apply-2021-2022-cohort

If you missed CE’s informational webinar on the 2021/22 Clean Energy Fellows program, we have posted it on CE’s YouTube channel. It answers many of the questions you might have on the details of becoming a Clean Energy Fellow.

2021/22 Clean Energy Fellows Informational Webinar For partners and educators that wish to learn more about the Clean ENergy Fellows cohorts for 2021/22 school year. Includes basic information about the Fello...

PacNW educators, three opportunities with our CE program!

We are proud to announce that we are opening applications for our THREE new cohorts of Clean Energy Fellows or the 2021/22 school year!

https://cebrightfutures.org/apply-2021-2022-cohort

These programs are open to ALL educators in BPA territory - we actively welcome educators from ALL disciplines and ALL grades K-12, as well as out of school time educators. In particular, we are looking for educators from Montana, Idaho, the Oregon Coast, Central & Eastern Oregon, and Central and Eastern Washington.

Check out the website for more info!

We are proud to announce that we are opening applications for our THREE new cohorts of Clean Energy Fellows or the 2021/22 school year!

https://cebrightfutures.org/apply-2021-2022-cohort

These programs are open to ALL educators in BPA territory - we actively welcome educators from ALL disciplines and ALL grades K-12, as well as out of school time educators. In particular, we are looking for educators from Montana, Idaho, the Oregon Coast, Central & Eastern Oregon, and Central and Eastern Washington.

Check out the website for more info!

Educators and Students: Join
in partnership with Vision 2030, a collaborative initiative facilitated by Senior Advocates for Generational Equity for a Climate Careers Summit on 12/2/2020!

https://www.pps.net/Page/16553

CE's Sr. Director explored a virtual conference tech experience while on panel with & on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Renewable Energy at Virtual Oregon Solar Energy Conference hosted by
Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association.

We took a closer look at real-world industry practices, including the virtual conference platform technology used at OSEC. Digitalization of business and linkage to the rollout of clean technology provides an opportunity to design innovations to be more inclusive and avoid the "source code error" of embedding inequities into advanced energy technology and communications. While jobs in the renewable energy fields continue to grow at a rapid pace according to the IREA, women and people of color still can't seem to break through the "PV" ceiling. Finally, alliances are starting to form to try to address a cultural shift in the RE field, and many organizations are launching their own internal DEI teams and even fully employed positions.
https://www.oseia.org/osec