New: Campus-Community Organizing Guide « It’s Getting Hot In Here

The Energy Justice Network has released its Campus-Community Organizing Guide: Building Power for Lasting Change in the Youth Movement for Clean Energy, prepared for the Energy Action Coalition and the Campus Climate Challenge August 2007.

It’s online and available for download – check it out today.

The guide’s main sections include 4 Great Ways to Help Communities, The Work Ahead, and Overcoming Obstacles. The Appendix has several resources, including such things as Examples of Campus-Community Collaboration, and the Principles of Working Together.

Download the guide and get started.

About Mattie

Mattie is a member of the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition's Steering Committee, an organization he founded at Power Shift 07. He is proud to support a growing statewide network of student groups working for a clean, safe, and just future for all. Mattie originally got involved as a Syracuse University student who saw a pressing need for climate action, later as an Energy Justice Network intern who began to realize the human impacts of coal, and finally as an OSEC organizer committed to building an economy and climate worth fighting for. He also has a degree in women's studies and sociology, is a founding member of the Mountain Justice Spring Break Planning Collective and an intentional community in Columbus, and is the convener of the Energy Action Coalition's Anti-Oppression working group.

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