This is a report from the Energy Action Bonnaroo crew! We are heading to the mother of music festivals, Bonnaroo, in Manchester, Tennessee to mobilize students and music lovers to join us in working for a clean energy revolution. One of the first rules of organizing I ever learned was that you have to start where people are rather than where you are. This is true for both your message and your physical location, I have found. Well, we are going to where people are! Over 100,000 people – especially young people we want to talk to – are coming to enjoy the music, have fun, and be asked to take action to stop global warming.
Bonnaroo has taken a huge step in putting together a solar stage and inviting people from StopGlobalWarming.org, the NRDC, and Energy Action to come on down and show people how they can make a difference. We will be collecting signatures for the Youth Climate Pledge, that all you guys should sign up for and asking them to make tackling global warming the priority for the 2008 election.
Come check out our reports as we liveblog from Bonnaroo, as we roadtrip there in a Flexcar Hybrid, and get people all riled up! We will be with the awesome crew from the Southern Energy Network and we are excited to see them in action.
Definitely sad I can’t be there with you while I battle tonsillitis from my nook in the basement, but I know you’ll do some amazing work. Have fun and make me proud.
Richard, my country is melting. Do something…
Frederik,
I know it is … how about you send me a post of what you want the It’s Getting Hot in Here to do about the fact that your country is melting and talk about what we can do. Because we can do a lot!
The Solar Stage was great with all the electrical power from a 2KW solar trailer provided by Big Frog Mountain again. They had to work at keeping the dust off the solar panels though since its drought conditions right now!