About Us
Our Mission
CREEDemocracy is a 501(c)(3) 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.
Who We Are
Our Founder and Executive Director, 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.
What We Do
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, and they became an even more pressing and global concern since the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine.
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.
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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and fund our mission. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization and your contributions are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.