Power Shift Regional Summits Around the Corner and Making News!

The first regional Power Shift Summits are around the corner, building steam, and making news!

I just arrived in Michigan to help out the organizers here, and as I walked into their office, sitting on the doorstep was copies of the Lansing State Journal and the Detroit News. We opened it up to find two prominently placed articles featuring this weekends Summit!

Check out the articles:

Lansing State Journal – “Up to 1,000 expected at ‘green’ summit in Lansing
Detroit News – “Youth unite for green summit in Lansing”

By organizing this massive mobilization, young people across Michigan are making their voices heard and demonstrating demand for their vision of a clean energy economy. As Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition organizer Scott Meloeny said in one the articles, “by the end of the summit, Meloeny said participants will be equipped to ‘”organize and work with communities and the media to run successful campaigns in their communities.”‘

“We will focus on local and statewide issues such as getting Michigan back to work with green jobs, clean energy and community infrastructure,” he said.

About Whit

Whit is the Deputy Field Director of Energy Action Coalition. He got his start in youth organizing at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. Whit helped organize the March to ReEnergize IA with the SSC, was a fellow for Power Shift 2007, and has been working with Energy Action ever since, focusing on field efforts for the Power Vote Campaign and Power Shift 2009. He is at the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen - follow him at www.twitter.com/whitjones