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I Stand With the Gulf Day of Action!

Posted on April 20

by Liz Kazal

Posted in: Mississippi Alumni and Students for Sustainability

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill, will you Stand With the Gulf?

With rising tides, declining ecosystems, and more pollution than ever, it is time we stand up to dirty energy and start Cleaning Up the Dirty South! We need to tell big polluters that we will no longer accept their fossil fuel future. We need to tell our elected officials to stand up for what WE want. We need to fight for a just, clean energy future.

Just 2 short months ago, a group of students from Mississippi (Mississippi Alumni and Students for Sustainability) were reflecting on how we could come together as a state and show our support for the people and environment still affected by the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Thus, Oil Spill: Black Out was born. Now we have students from across the southeast who have signed their campuses up to host a Black Out event and stand in solidarity with the Gulf.

SSREC is almost here y'all!!

Posted on October 27

by Maria Rosales, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Posted in: Tennessee Alumni and Students Sustainable Campuses

SSREC 2011 is almost here! In less than 2 weeks, November 4-6, hundreds of youth from across the Southeast will come together in Asheville, NC for the Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference. SSREC will take place exactly a year from the 2012 Presidential Campaign, so now more than ever, we need grassroots leaders to step up and take a stand for clean energy and climate justice. At the SSREC, we will come together to learn the skills we need to make that happen. Over 300 students will be making plans for clean energy campaigns to call on Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, but more importantly to show collective power for clean energy, not just a candidate.

A call to action from the Southeast: We're ready to hit the battleground!

Posted on August 17

by Maria Rosales, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Posted in: Tennessee Alumni and Students Sustainable Campuses

This post was crossed from the Campus Clean Energy blog.

Earlier this month, a group of climate deniers called CFACT staged a “conference” as a direct response to the “radical and alarmist agenda of the leftist PowerShift movement” Featured speakers included Lord Monckton, Marc Morano, clean coal reps, energy lobbyists, etc. They claim that the conference was a huge success with less than a couple dozen people in attendance. CFATC writes, “The CFACT conference stands as the kickoff to our direct response to the dangerous agenda of PowerShift 2011…they want to return America to the standard of living we enjoyed in 1882. PowerShift’s platform is frightening. America cannot function on just wind, solar, and geothermal. The world economy will come crashing to its knees, and life as we know it will come to a screeching, green halt.”