Published

1 year ago

December 24, 2024

Alice Rush

This post is part of a series of blogs examining where 2024 Southeastern candidates for state and federal offices stand on key energy and climate issues.

Note: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy does not support or oppose candidates or political parties. Links to reports, candidate websites and outside sources are provided as citizen education tools.

In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Lucia Baez-Geller, the Democratic Party candidate running to represent Florida Congressional District 27 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in this series, we profile Republican candidate Maria Elvira Salazar. Election Day is November 5, 2024.

Lucia Baez-Geller is a former educator and school board member. For 15 years, she taught English and Language Arts at a public high school in Miami. In 2020, she was elected to represent District 3 on the Miami-Dade County School Board.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Baez-Geller has stated on X (formerly Twitter), “We must also pass legislation to support and speed up our nation’s transition towards renewable energy.”

While serving District 3 on the Miami-Dade County School Board, Lucia Baez-Geller co-sponsored a resolution for the school board to acknowledge the urgency of 100% clean energy use by 2030 and the creation of a task force to develop policy recommendations, accountability processes, and an accompanying implementation plan.

Climate Change

In an interview with the Miami Herald Baez-Geller shared that if elected, she hopes to address climate change. “Look at the heat waves, hurricanes and the weather patterns over the last few years,” she said. “We need to protect our oceans, our water supply and ensure that our community is a healthy place to live.”

For Earth Day, she shared this message reminding Floridians that a commitment to protecting the planet includes supporting policies that combat climate.

Electric Transportation

We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.

Energy Equity and Energy Burden

We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.

High-Risk Energy: Coal, Nuclear, Oil, Gas

We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.

Voting Information

Election Day is November 5. Here are important dates and deadlines to consider, from the Florida Division of Elections:

Oct. 7, 2024: Voter registration deadline
Oct. 24, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot request deadline (5:00 pm)
Oct. 26, 2024: Mandatory in-person early voting period begins
Nov. 2, 2024: Mandatory in-person early voting period ends
Nov. 5, 2024: General Election Day
Nov. 5, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot return deadline (7:00 pm)
Nov. 15, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot return deadline for military and overseas citizen voters

*Visit Vote-by-Mail and Military and Overseas Citizens Voting for information about deadlines to send a vote-by-mail ballot, to request a vote-by-mail ballot and to return vote by a mail ballot.

** Due to Hurricane Helene, Governor DeSantis has issued Executive Order 24-212 making changes to election rules for some residents of the counties most affected by Helene. Hurricane Milton may affect voting as well. Check here for the latest information.

Find additional important election information here.

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Lucia Baez-Geller on Climate & Energy

Renewable Energy

Homeschooling

Published

8 hours ago

March 1, 2026

Alice Rush

Decent and intelligent people respect the rights of parents to homeschool their children, but there are two reasons for concern: a) socialization, failure to expose children to their peers, so that they may make friends and come to understand the norms of society, and b) the quality of the education itself.

Almost all homeschooling in the United States is conducted on the basis of a radical rightwing viewpoint, normally a blend of evangelical Christianity and Trumpism.

Homeschooling

Renewable Energy

The Positive Effects We’ve Had on Others Are Profound, Whether We Know It or Not

Published

19 hours ago

February 28, 2026

Alice Rush

There’s a theory that most people underestimate the positive effects they’ve had on other people.

Yes, that’s the theme of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but it’s also the core of the 1995 film “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” in which a music teacher who deemed that his life had been a failure because he never completed writing a great symphony, is gently and beautifully corrected. Please see below.

The Positive Effects We’ve Had on Others Are Profound, Whether We Know It or Not

Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Concepts Can’t Violate the Laws of Physics

Published

1 day ago

February 28, 2026

Alice Rush

In the early days of 2GreenEnergy, my people and I were vigorously engaged in finding solid ideas in cleantech that needed funding in order to move forward.

I vividly remember a conversation with a guy in Maryland who was trying to explain the (ostensible) breakthrough that he and his team had made in hydrokinetics. When I was having trouble visualizing what we was talking about, he asked me to “think of it as a river in a box.”

“Oh!” I exclaimed. “You mean you take a box full of standing water, add energy to it get it moving, then extract that energy, leaving you with more energy that you added to it.”

“Exactly.”

I politely explained that the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, make this impossible.

He wasn’t through, however, and insisted that, in his office, his people had constructed a “working model.”

Here’s where my tone descended into something less than 100% polite. I told him that he may think he has a working model, but he’s wrong; if he believes this, he’s ignorant; if he doesn’t, but is conducting this conversation anyway, he’s a fraud.

“But don’t you want to come see it?” he implored.

“No. Not only would not fly across the country to see whatever it is you claim to have built, I wouldn’t walk across the street to a “working model” of something that is theoretically impossible.”

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I tell this story because the claim made at the upper left is essentially identical. You’re pumping water up out of a stream, and then claiming to extract more energy when the water flows back into the stream.

Of course, social media today is rife with complete crap like this. We’ve devolved to a point where defrauding money out of idiots is rapidly replacing baseball as our national pastime.