The RFP
“We need heroes. Build them, dont put your fist up, fill them. Fight with tools.”
These lyrics by a popular band out of Denver, The Flobots, embodies the type of change we need within the youth movement to obtain what we want most; a holistic clean energy economy. The easy question is, how do we do this? The answer, if we do our part together, might not be as difficult as you think.
First, we need to to address our cities and communities that are no longer transforming themselves. The good news is there are those that have already started to do this. Heroes, as we call them. They are individuals who have brought about areas of positive change because they envision something greater. Each of these heroes are people just like you, links of a chain bounded together by community or organization, each with a story to tell, each empowered to make a positive difference.
These are the types of stories and individuals that create the positive synergy within a movement that turns a vision into a reality. There’s no question visions such as these have been plagued with the apathy and skepticism. Radical change has many opponents. But now is the time to work with communities on finding answers to problems that continue to plague them.
This Summer, the Energy Action Coalition is listening. Communities such as yours will have the opportunity to connect to something bigger, something that can be leveraged for relevant, real policy change. This will aide the movement in scaling-up to become a size needed to achieve the kind of positive transformation our cities and communities crave.
Download the application to include and receive support for your community’s summer project.
We know there are so many problems that need to be addressed. We also know solutions to these problems are only shackled by the limits of our imagination. That’s what makes this summer so exciting. Organizations, communities and individuals will be able to collaborate to understand how to shift the power back to us. These summer programs will be inclusive, practical, hands-on and transpartent so that local stories, skills and experiences can be shared nationally for all to take part in. The holistic and developmental progression of these programs will be what comes to successfully define us in the next ten years.
We have some great projects coming together for this in Michigan. I know that the Summer of Solutions have some good examples that should apply as well.
This summer is our time to prove the clean energy economy is real.