Al Weinrub is Coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA), the Bay Area’s largest clean energy coalition. The LCEA, which hosts an annual Clean Power, Healthy Communities conference, sees the development of local energy resources as key to growing sustainable business, advancing social equity, and promoting community resilience. Al authored the highly-acclaimed report Community Power: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California and has conducted energy policy briefings for many organizations and national conferences. Al also serves on the Steering Committee of the Oakland Climate Action Coalition and is a member of the Sierra Club California Energy-Climate Committee. He is a former national officer and member the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, AFL-CIO. Al lives in Oakland.