Congratulations Renewable Energy Campaign, we did it! Last week the Legislature voted to include $25 million in the Alaska budget for Renewable Energy Development! Though this was less than what we were asking, ($50 million,) $25 million will go a long way to getting a lot of really cool Renewable Energy projects up and running! Thanks for all your signature gathering, letters to the editor, interviews, and talking with your legislators that made this happen!
Now - On to Phase 2 of the Renewable Energy Campaign!
We have a lot of work to do still to educate Alaskans about the potential for Renewable Energy - and to make sure that the Governor puts more money for Renewable Energy in the budget for next year.
Currently the following people are conducting research and creating slides for the presentation:
- Nara and Robyn (Anchorage): Solar
- Noah (Healy): Biomass
- Janelle (Chefornak): Wind
- Talitha (Juneau): Hydro
They are each also getting ready to give their first presentations to their communities. We need your help to do more presentations around Alaska!
Join us at our next Teleconference Meeting on Tuesday, May 5 at 6pm to line up our summer plans and discuss where we will do our presentations! (1-800-791-2345, passcode 33749#)
Friday, April 24, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Collect Lots of Signatures in the Next Week and Win a Trip to Juneau to Deliver Them!
Campaign Call Notes from March 26
The Race is On! How many signatures can you gather on the Petition in the next week? If you gather more than anyone else, AYEA will send you to Juneau to hand-deliver the signatures to our Legislators! Report how many signatures you have to Maeve (taylorm@nwf.org) or call 339-3907 by Friday April 3.
Fax your signatures to Maeve at (907) 339-3980
or Scan and Email them to taylorm@nwf.org.
We only have a couple of weeks left to try and get the $50 million for Renewable Energy into the State Budget this year! Here are ideas on where to gather signatures:
- At your school (gather between classes, at lunch, or hold an Assembly!)
- At local businesses like the grocery store.
- At community events or meetings.
- Ask all your Friends on Facebook and MySpace to sign the online petition at www.ayea.org!
You can also help get the money in the budget by writing Letters to the Editor and to your legislators!
- To find out how to write a letter to the editor go to: http://ayea.org/WordPress/resources/action-tools/
- To find out who your legislator is look at the Blog under RE Resources and click on “Find Your Legislator”.
- Hold a Letter Writing Party with your friends next week and send out lots of letters supporting Renewable Energy!
But the Campaign won’t be over after this spring’s Legislative Session! We have lots to do to make sure that there is money in the Alaska budget next year – so we’ll be making presentations and gathering signatures all summer! Then next fall, Campaign Leaders will get to take all the signatures gathered and present them to the Governor!
Get Involved on Our Next Campaign Call – Wednesday, April 8 at 6pm (call in at 1-800-791-2345 and enter the passcode 33749#.)
The Race is On! How many signatures can you gather on the Petition in the next week? If you gather more than anyone else, AYEA will send you to Juneau to hand-deliver the signatures to our Legislators! Report how many signatures you have to Maeve (taylorm@nwf.org) or call 339-3907 by Friday April 3.
Fax your signatures to Maeve at (907) 339-3980
or Scan and Email them to taylorm@nwf.org.
We only have a couple of weeks left to try and get the $50 million for Renewable Energy into the State Budget this year! Here are ideas on where to gather signatures:
- At your school (gather between classes, at lunch, or hold an Assembly!)
- At local businesses like the grocery store.
- At community events or meetings.
- Ask all your Friends on Facebook and MySpace to sign the online petition at www.ayea.org!
You can also help get the money in the budget by writing Letters to the Editor and to your legislators!
- To find out how to write a letter to the editor go to: http://ayea.org/WordPress/resources/action-tools/
- To find out who your legislator is look at the Blog under RE Resources and click on “Find Your Legislator”.
- Hold a Letter Writing Party with your friends next week and send out lots of letters supporting Renewable Energy!
But the Campaign won’t be over after this spring’s Legislative Session! We have lots to do to make sure that there is money in the Alaska budget next year – so we’ll be making presentations and gathering signatures all summer! Then next fall, Campaign Leaders will get to take all the signatures gathered and present them to the Governor!
Get Involved on Our Next Campaign Call – Wednesday, April 8 at 6pm (call in at 1-800-791-2345 and enter the passcode 33749#.)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
CAMPAIGN UPDATE! notes and action items from the last meeting
The campaign continues as AYEA teens collect signatures across the state!!!!!!!
-Juneau will collect 500-750 signatures
-Mt Edgecumbe: 750-1,000 sigs
-Homer: 500-700
-Anchorage 1,000-1,500
-Palmer, Fairbanks, Chefornak, Fairbanks, Yakutat, and Dillingham: to be announced! (Anna, Maeve, Steph, Elena will be contacting these chapters to get their signature commitment!)
Youth are busy collecting as many signatures as possible. You can do it too! Either print out a PDF version of the petition, or forward the petition to your friends in its online version.
Strategies for collecting signatures include: Tabling at the local grocery store, collecting sigs in the classroom (check with your teachers first), EMAIL your family and friends, and make sure to sign YOURSELF! Don't forget to add your friends to the facebook cause!
A powerpoint presentation is also being created and presentations will be given as soon as is possible! Think about the audience you want to present to and the time/dates that would work well! Keep posted for the powerpoint, coming soon!
-Juneau will collect 500-750 signatures
-Mt Edgecumbe: 750-1,000 sigs
-Homer: 500-700
-Anchorage 1,000-1,500
-Palmer, Fairbanks, Chefornak, Fairbanks, Yakutat, and Dillingham: to be announced! (Anna, Maeve, Steph, Elena will be contacting these chapters to get their signature commitment!)
Youth are busy collecting as many signatures as possible. You can do it too! Either print out a PDF version of the petition, or forward the petition to your friends in its online version.
Strategies for collecting signatures include: Tabling at the local grocery store, collecting sigs in the classroom (check with your teachers first), EMAIL your family and friends, and make sure to sign YOURSELF! Don't forget to add your friends to the facebook cause!
A powerpoint presentation is also being created and presentations will be given as soon as is possible! Think about the audience you want to present to and the time/dates that would work well! Keep posted for the powerpoint, coming soon!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
green latrine
Help Alaska get renewable energy in our budget!!
Alaska Youth for Environmental Actions (AYEA)’s state wide campaign this year is:
Renewable Energy, our time is now!
Our objectives are:
1. Get 6,000 signatures from 20 different communities statewide from people who support renewable energy.
2. Getting the proposed 50 million dollars for a Renewable Energy Fund in Alaska’s budget.
Learn more and help your state by signing the petition at www.ayea.org
Alaska Youth for Environmental Actions (AYEA)’s state wide campaign this year is:
Renewable Energy, our time is now!
Our objectives are:
1. Get 6,000 signatures from 20 different communities statewide from people who support renewable energy.
2. Getting the proposed 50 million dollars for a Renewable Energy Fund in Alaska’s budget.
Learn more and help your state by signing the petition at www.ayea.org
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Campaign Meeting #3 Action Items
- The Petition is Online and in Google Docs! Print it out and start getting signatures!
- Chapter Signature Goals: JAYEA - 500 to 750; MAYEA - 750 to 1000; Homer - 500 to 700 (All chapters report goals to Steph or post on this blog.)
- Elena created a Facebook Cause for Renewable Energy - Join on and invite your friends!
- Oshi, Joe, and Charlee are working on a Powerpoint Presentation that everyone will be able to use. A rough draft will be ready by March 11.
- Elena will work with Maya to create the Green Latrine, to be finished by March 4.
- We are still doing some more research so we can make a really good case for RE. We decided to do one page research summaries of the following types of RE and how they can be used in AK:
-Tidal- Elena
-Solar - Steph
-Hydro - Talitha
-Wind - ? (maybe Daria or another volunteer?)
-Geothermal - ? (maybe Ana and Katie in Fairbanks?)
-Biomass - ? (maybe Tiaya and Mariah in Palmer?)
- Luc has offered to help all researchers! His phone number is 227-9748 and his email is lucmehl@gmail.com
- Steph and Talitha will write talking points for all of us to use during presentations and gathering signatures.
- Oshi and Elena have both written Letters to the Editor about RE. They will post these on Google Docs and the Blog and everyone can use them as examples to write their own letters.
- Everyone should think about cool stories of RE in their own or neighboring communities. Soon we will be helping people create digital stories if you have a good idea for one. Jeff and Joe are going to help train people.
- Those attending the Civics Summit will be able to show the Legislators (and maybe the Governor!) how many signatures we've collected so far. So get busy collecting signatures!
- We will do lots of presentations in March, April, and May - so start thinking about who your audiences will be for your presentations.
Next Meeting - Thursday, March 5, 6pm.
- Chapter Signature Goals: JAYEA - 500 to 750; MAYEA - 750 to 1000; Homer - 500 to 700 (All chapters report goals to Steph or post on this blog.)
- Elena created a Facebook Cause for Renewable Energy - Join on and invite your friends!
- Oshi, Joe, and Charlee are working on a Powerpoint Presentation that everyone will be able to use. A rough draft will be ready by March 11.
- Elena will work with Maya to create the Green Latrine, to be finished by March 4.
- We are still doing some more research so we can make a really good case for RE. We decided to do one page research summaries of the following types of RE and how they can be used in AK:
-Tidal- Elena
-Solar - Steph
-Hydro - Talitha
-Wind - ? (maybe Daria or another volunteer?)
-Geothermal - ? (maybe Ana and Katie in Fairbanks?)
-Biomass - ? (maybe Tiaya and Mariah in Palmer?)
- Luc has offered to help all researchers! His phone number is 227-9748 and his email is lucmehl@gmail.com
- Steph and Talitha will write talking points for all of us to use during presentations and gathering signatures.
- Oshi and Elena have both written Letters to the Editor about RE. They will post these on Google Docs and the Blog and everyone can use them as examples to write their own letters.
- Everyone should think about cool stories of RE in their own or neighboring communities. Soon we will be helping people create digital stories if you have a good idea for one. Jeff and Joe are going to help train people.
- Those attending the Civics Summit will be able to show the Legislators (and maybe the Governor!) how many signatures we've collected so far. So get busy collecting signatures!
- We will do lots of presentations in March, April, and May - so start thinking about who your audiences will be for your presentations.
Next Meeting - Thursday, March 5, 6pm.
Monday, February 23, 2009
THE PETITION
HEY:
Download the petition to start collecting signatures.
Click here to access the PDF version of the petition. Want the link to this pdf?
http://docs.google.com/a/ayea.org/fileview?id=F.e7756faf-a1c4-41c6-a9f7-1fe7a713169b
Click here to sign an online version of the petition! Want the link to this google form and doc?
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/ayea.org/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cGZMV3RuWTVKd2ZLcjFkcGhfY0dRSEE6MA..
Download the petition to start collecting signatures.
Click here to access the PDF version of the petition. Want the link to this pdf?
http://docs.google.com/a/ayea.
Click here to sign an online version of the petition! Want the link to this google form and doc?
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/ayea.org/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cGZMV3RuWTVKd2ZLcjFkcGhfY0dRSEE6MA..
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