The Summer of Solutions Wants You! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Looking for an amazing experience working with other youth leaders of the climate movement this summer? Check out the Summer of Solutions:

We’ll be using the principles of Open Space organizing to empower participants to engage in creative action on their own terms, yet as vital members of the team. As student climate organizers at Macalester College, the organizers have been building grassroots community partnerships and strategic initiatives around green manufacturing, entrepreneurial community energy efficiency, community-based clean energy development, and much more for the past two years. Using this base and our collective skills and insights, we will work together to advance these initiatives and create more while building a base of young leaders ready to lead their communities all across the country towards a sustainable future. We will realize the Climate Positive Vision by using “a mind-set that engages eagerly in the opportunities inherent in solving the climate crisis” to generate the solutions that will get us there. In the process, we’ll meet lots of amazing people, discuss so many amazing things, build skills that will last a life-time, and have lots of fun!

The Summer of Solutions will be June 1 - Aug 1 in St. Paul, MN. If you’re interested in helping build innovative solutions to climate change, fill out the simple application by one of the priority deadlines: April 1, 15, or 29 - PLEASE apply ASAP! After you apply, we’ll help you figure out how to get paid through various programs/ fundraising that we’ll help you with. The application and much more info can be found at
http://grandaspirations.org/summerofsol/summerofsolutions.html.

Questions (AND Applications) can be sent to summerofsolutions@gmail.com. We hope you can join us!

If this won’t fit your schedule, but you’re looking for other amazing options, check out the Summer Opportunities Page.

About Timothy

Timothy is a student climate leader at Macalester College in St. Paul. He's all about people power, and being the changes we actually want to see. I've been heavily involved in community development and using climate solutions as incredible opportunities for local economic activity, collective empowerment, and self-determination. Timothy works on campus, state, and global policy, runs community energy initiatives from wind, to ground source heat, to energy efficiency, and does lots of network building with buddies in the youth movement as well as labor, faith, agricultural, small business, and neighborhood groups.

2 Responses to “The Summer of Solutions Wants You!”

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1 Laurabhill Mar 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Yay!! Summer of Solutions will be awesome… I’ll be there, you should be too!
I’m going to be interning at the Bell Museum of Natural History. I’ll be studying the intersections of science and culture, and working with their Cafe Scientifique program to encourage citizen science and challenge hierarchal expert-based institutionalized Science around the Twin Cities. Sweet! See you there!
2 Jesse Jenkins Mar 31st, 2008 at 10:07 pm

We’re also scheming a similar summer insitutue, a “Think and Do Tank” here in Portland, OR if you are more west-coast oriented this summer. More details soon, but check out the Summer Opportunities tab at the top for more.

BTW, big hair, Timothy! Nice fro!

Rock on my SOL brothers in MN,

Jesse