About Us

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CREEDemocracy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting existing and emerging clean renewable energy technologies and helping to empower democracy in America and globally. Our name reflects our deeply held belief – our creed – that Clean Renewable Energy Empowers Democracy by allowing individuals, responsible businesses, and nations to live their lives freely without being unduly controlled by hostile, corrupt, or inept governments and greedy or unreliable energy providers.  

EIN #33-3365753

Gary Jonesi, Founder, Executive Director, President of Board of Directors

Gary Jonesi is a national leader on environmental protection and clean energy issues. He spent almost 40 years as an attorney, manager, and visionary at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC. 

After managing key parts of the federal government’s legal efforts in response to the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill and working on groundbreaking cases such as the Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal, he decided in 2015 that discouraging dirty fossil fuel energy was not enough. He designed and led the EPA's Clean Renewable Energy Opportunities (CREO) program that successfully transformed an ad hoc enforcement case strategy process into one in which clean renewables are routinely required to be considered in every environmental enforcement case resolution. His CREO leadership efforts earned him the EPA’s prestigious Russell Train Award for Sustainability (named after the second EPA Administrator and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner) and other accolades, and led to more than doubling the average annual number of EPA enforcement cases incorporating wind, solar, and other clean renewable energy projects. 

Since leaving EPA in January 2025, Gary has been speaking out about the Trump Administration's shameless attacks on environmental protection, the federal workforce, and the rule of law.

Greg has spent his career keeping people safe from harm caused by man-made and natural disasters. He has over 35 years of experience coordinating emergency operations and training new emergency response recruits and students. He served as the Director of Emergency Management for Northwestern University, Fire Chief for the City of Evanston, Illinois, and as an Adjunct Professor of Public Safety. He has consulted on Covid-19 pandemic response and recovery efforts and delivered FEMA-compliant disaster planning and recovery operations. Greg earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Greg lives with his wife Nancy in Golden, Colorado.

Jon is an expert in understanding the human psyche, a critical skill in today’s perilous world. He has worked in the mental health field for 35 years as a clinician and in leadership positions. Jon served as the Executive Director of Urban Peak, a center for runaway and homeless teens in Denver, Colorado, as Executive Director for the Poyama Day Treatment Center in Salem, Oregon, and as CEO of The Internal Family Therapy Institute. Jon earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Macalester College and a Master of Counseling Education from The College of Idaho. Jon lives with his wife Sara in Littleton, Colorado, and Tucson, Arizona. 

We promote clean renewables that require no fuel, such as wind, solar, geothermal, motion energy, and other nonpolluting energy generation (and associated energy storage that aids in such efforts).  We highlight and praise innovators and leaders who support our goals and expose those who pollute the public square with disinformation and threaten democracy or the necessary and inexorable transition to clean renewables. 

We emphasize distributed (i.e., off-grid) clean renewables and the economic, reliability, independence, and democracy benefits of fossil-free clean renewables and associated energy storage. 

Energy users have diverse views on politics and climate change, but few would disagree that spending less money while obtaining reliable energy and not enriching hostile energy providers or being vulnerable to energy supply chain disruptions is a worthy goal.  Energy security concerns have existed at least since the rise of OPEC in the 1970’s and the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The importance of how we power our lives has become an even more pressing concern since the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine. and the Trump Administration's 2026 wars against Venezuela and Iran.

Simply put, we need to clean and democratize our energy supply system by eroding the monopoly that governments, oligarchs, and utilities have on energy generation largely via overreliance on centralized grids and transportation of polluting fuels to those grids. We seek to catalyze those changes through education and advocacy.