The past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting here at Focus the Nation HQ. We’ve doubled our staff, thanks in part to the MySpace Impact award you helped us win. We’ve hired a Director of Media and Public Relations, Garett Brennan, and three new Organizers, Alex Tinker, Laura Westwood and Minna Brown. Now we’re gearing up for the fall, and strapping ourselves in for what is sure to be an exciting ride.
As the first of many exciting mileposts on that ride, we kicked off our Green Torch sign-ups yesterday at Lewis & Clark College. Students from PSU, University of Portland, Lewis & Clark and Willamette University will all be signing this “official invitation” to our representatives and senators, asking them to attend a Focus The Nation event on January 31, 2008. To deliver the invitation, teams of students from all the schools will participate in the Green Torch relay from Portland to the steps of the capitol. Starting October 21 teams will be running, biking, paddling the Willamette, and hopefully even skateboarding across the state to make the delivery.
If you want to get involved in a Green Torch event, or if you want to organize one of your own, shoot us an email: info -at- focusthenation -dot- org.
Hey Ben!
I am a junior at St. Lawrence University and I am currently the president of the SLU Coalition on Climate Change. I have been trying to coordinate a Green Torch Relay here in New York State (from Canton, NY to Albany) and I was wondering if you knew of some good ways to get such a movement started.
We’re hoping to work with the following colleges in this 200+ mile bike relay:
Clarkson
SUNY Canton/Potsdam/Albany
Paul Smith’s
Adirondack Community College
North Country Community College in Saranac Lake
Skidmore
Union
RPI
Russel Sage
The Beacon Institute
Do you know of any people in any of these schools that we shoiuld contact about this event?
Thanks for the help!
~Nigel Fellman Greene ’09
nafell05@stlawu.edu