SAVE THE DATE: NAACP Emerging Leadership Summit on Energy Justice

[Jacqui Patterson]

SAVE THE DATE!! SAVE THE DATE!! SAVE THE DATE!! SAVE THE DATE!! SAVE THE DATE!!

 

Emerging Leadership Summit on Energy Justice

At the

NAACP Annual Leadership 500 Summit (a.k.a. “L5”)

http://l500.org/

 

WHEN?

Leadership 500-----May 26^th-28^th 2011

Energy Justice Summit--May, 27^th 2011

 

WHERE?

Westin Diplomat Hotel

3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood, FL 33019

954-602-6000

 

What’s It All About?

The Leadership 500 Summit was conceived 5 years ago as a forum for convening emerging leaders to engage in agenda setting on the critical issues that comprise NAACP’s civil rights agenda, including health, education, criminal justice, economic development, and now, environmental and climate justice.

Within this framework, the National Leadership Summit on Energy Justice will assemble leaders from NAACP membership, the environmental and climate justice community, the energy industry, federal agencies, social justice organizations, and others, to discuss the energy crisis, implications for communities of color, and how NAACP can engage new leadership in heralding the new energy future based on principles which uphold human and civil rights through conservation, renewable energy, community ownership and leadership, and economic, health, and social justice.

Discussion topics will include energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, impact of US energy choices on communities of color, models of community activism, policy landscape on energy and energy efficiency, legal safeguards, models for community ownership of utilities, and seizing economic opportunities in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Participants will emerge informed, educated, energized, connected, and motivated to take action!

 

For Early Bird Rates, Please Register by April 15^th

https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/2446/t/9459/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=87

 

For More Information:

 

Jacqueline Patterson

Director, Climate Justice Department

NAACP

4805 Mt. Hope Drive

Baltimore, MD 21215

443-465-9809(cell)

443-647-0054 (fax)

jpatt...@naacpnet.org

http://www.naacp.org/programs/entry/climate-justice

http://climatejusticeinitiative.wordpress.com (Climate Justice Blog)