it’s gettin’ hot in GA: student lobby day video

check out this awesome video made by Emory’s Environmental Alliance on the 50 person lobby day that Georgia students’ organized last Friday after Focus the Nation. Students from a number of Atlanta area schools attended and were able to discuss global warming with a variety of lawmakers from those who know we need to act on global warming now to those who don’t even think it’s a problem (I’m serious!) GA legislators even had a “Global Warming: Fact or Fiction” hearing last summer and they weren’t able to come to a conclusion.

About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

It’s Getting Hot In Here