SSREC and NCSEN info!!! meeting at my house next week!
Elizabeth Goyer
the same but I'll double check. thanks for kicking ass guys! Also - If
you think you want a specific role for SSREC planning (fundpitching,
planning a funraising (ok and fundraising...) concert, on campus
recruitment, housing, getting in touch with local nonprofits that we
might want to use workshops) let me know. ALSO I'm going to start
having a hosting school call with Anjali from SEN soon, if you want to
be on those calls please let me know a good time that works!!! Thanks
guys! I love you all and I will attempt bring a hoard of sexy
environmentalist ladies to the meeting next week...
Lets plan to have the meeting at my house next week at 7:30...I'll try
to leave work early to be on time. My address is 41 Cumberland Circle
Asheville 28801.
Elizabeth
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From: Carly Queen <que...@nwf.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Subject: NC Student Energy Network - Info and First Call May 2 at 8:30pm
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Cc: Brinkley Hutchings <brink...@gmail.com>, "emg...@unca.edu"
<emg...@unca.edu>, "sbo...@email.unc.edu" <sbo...@email.unc.edu>
Hi everyone!!
This is the first official NC Student Energy Network weekly email!!!
Thanks everyone for being a part of this; we are unbelievably excited
to be forming a cohesive state group that will be used to help us plan
statewide actions and support each other on our local campaigns.
If you signed up to be a NCSEN representative for your school, please
plan to be on the first conference call next week! This call will
happen next Tuesday night (May 2) at 8:30 PM. We know this may be in
the middle of exams for some of you but please plan ahead and let’s
try to have both reps from each school on this call. More info below.
If your school wasn’t at the state breakout but you want to be a
campus rep for the NCSEN, let us know by sending your info to:
stewar...@gmail.com. Even if you’re not a designated campus rep, if
you want to bring Power Shift back to your campus then get on the
call!
Conference Call Info:
Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7000
Participant Access Code: 505541#
From what we’ve heard, everyone seems to be bringing the Power Shift
energy back to their campuses in awesome ways!
At UNC-Asheville, we are launching a Beyond Coal campaign! Last week
we collected almost 500 signatures (this is over 1/7th of our student
body) on a petition and are planning to pressure our administration to
do an energy audit of residence halls. Getting UNCA off coal is going
to be incredibly difficult because we don’t have our own coal plant or
an obvious alternative but we plan to get the ball rolling now!
Students from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University attended the NC
General Assembly’s final Joint Regulatory Reform Committee hearing in
Raleigh, speaking out for environmental protections and standing up
against GOP-led efforts to roll back renewable energy standards in
North Carolina and underfund the Dept. of Environment and Natural
Resources. As NC Sierra Club state director Molly Diggins said, “Our
challenges are great but our resolve is unflagging.”
At UNC-Wilmington, two days after Power Shift, students acted out a
mock oil spill cleanup in hazmat suits for an offshore drilling
protest at Wrightsville Beach. They also made over 100 phone calls on
that same day into their local Congressman’s office to ban offshore
drilling and push for wind energy off NC’s coast!
These are great stories, but we want to hear more from all of you! To
stay tuned in on Facebook and let people know what’s happening on your
campus, join the NC Student Energy Network Facebook group here. We
already have 100+ members and counting, but there were 500 of you at
Power Shift last weekend!
NCSEN: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_177029578999101
Also join the email list if you haven’t already and want to continue
receiving emails about once a week! Email Carly at que...@nwf.org if
you are having trouble joining.
Thanks y’all! Can’t wait to talk on next Tuesday’s conference call!
Elizabeth Goyer, Stewart Boss and Brinkley Hutchings
NCSEN
Jason Rafferty
other stuff from the last meeting:
Fundraising for the SSREC: We'll definitely want to contact local
sympathetic groups and tell them what we're doing (and hopefully get
their money!) a few that came up: Sierra Club (I'll be going to their
next meeting with... Ian? Someone volunteered as well, I forget.
Anyone else that wants to come is welcome.) Greendrinks, Heartwood
grants, and local "Green" businesses.
UNCA Student recruitment: We have two fairly large lists of people,
500 or so that signed the powershift petition and about 400 that
signed our school mountaintop-removal petition. At the beginning of
the school year we can spam these people with tons of emails about
SSREC to make them want to come! (kidding)
ALSO, very important, I showed a concept image for a logo for the FLIP
DA SWITCH campaign. I'll be tweaking it this week based on some great
feedback from the meeting (thanks for that everyone.) We also have a
sticker concept of a light bulb screwed into a ruined mountain, so
I'll be working on that over the next few weeks as well. Taylor and I
will be scouting out some local companies that may give us a dealio on
some stickers.
Also, the site www.transitionasheville.org was mentioned to me. This
is very cool, based on using the community's collective knowledge to
navigate the transition toward local food, oil use reduction, and
energy conservation. you all should definitely check it out, amongst
their mission statement I found:
Support the creation of smaller action groups which will focus on
particular areas of interest and initiate positive, visible projects.
Wow! Golly! That's us gang! We should definitely keep these guys on
our radar and tell them about what we've got going on. I just signed
up for an account on there. http://www.transitionasheville.org/content/welcome
Here's a link that gives more basic info.
That's about it, Sunday's the next NC Student Energy Network
conference call, Ian and I will be on from his house and everyone that
can should. 8:30 pm,
- Conference Dial-in Number: 1-800-791-2345
- Participant Access Code: 54729#
Thanks brothas and sistas!
Jason R