April Share the Plate: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
Our April Share the Plate partner is the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), a nonprofit organization that promotes responsible and equitable energy choices to ensure clean, safe, and healthy communities throughout the Southeast. As a leading voice for energy policy in our region, SACE is a regional organization focused on transforming the way we produce and consume energy in the Southeast.
Who We Are
Founded in 1985, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has over 30 years’ experience as a leading voice calling for smart energy policies in our region that help protect our quality of life and treasured places. Our expert staff is uniquely poised to tackle energy challenges and promote equitable outcomes that help our region’s communities harness the environmental and economic opportunities presented by clean, renewable energy.
SACE is one of the few organizations in the Southeast with the analytical capacity to approach utilities and decision makers with multi-disciplinary arguments showcasing the true costs of high risk energy sources, and the real values of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources like solar and wind. In addition to our technical and policy advocacy work, SACE is also on the ground in local communities throughout our region working to mobilize concerned citizens and to elevate the conversation around the dangers of climate change and the importance of clean energy choices.
Our Values
Protecting Treasured Places
Promoting Energy Independence
Advancing a Clean Energy Economy
Creating Job Opportunities
Saving Energy and Saving Money
Empowering Diverse Constituencies
Ensuring Safe, Healthy Communities
Please give generously to our April partner, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, whose goals are so closely aligned with our own UU values. Quoting from the 2023 Business Resolution from the UUA General Assembly, advocating for complete divestment of UUA funds from fossil fuels:
“WHEREAS, we as Unitarian Universalists are grounded in love and guided by our fundamental principles that uphold the worth of every living being; call for justice in human affairs; support the right of conscience and the democratic process; support a world community with peace and liberty for all; declare respect for the interdependent web of existence; and dismantle racism and other oppressions, and WHEREAS, the Earth’s systems among which we make our homes are threatened and destabilized by rising sea levels, warming average temperatures, the acidification of oceans, the depletion of nutrients in our soils, the pollution of land, air and water; and WHEREAS, people living at the intersection of multiple systems of oppression, including people of color, poor people, disabled people, queer people and young people are disproportionately exposed and vulnerable to environmental injustice; and WHEREAS, the impending and ongoing collapse of these ecological systems will fundamentally change the lives of our children, our children’s children, our children’s children’s children, and so on; and WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found that emissions of Carbon Dioxide contribute dominantly to global climate change, and WHEREAS, greenhouse gasses are released “by burning fossil fuels and by certain industrial and resource extraction processes” such as fracking, offshore drilling, boring, and mining.”