Renewable Energy in Alaska: Our Time is Now!

We Did It! $25 Million for Renewable Energy in 09 Alaska Budget!

2009-04-24T10:01:00.002-08:00

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#)

Collect Lots of Signatures in the Next Week and Win a Trip to Juneau to Deliver Them!

2009-03-27T11:21:00.001-08:00

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#.)

CAMPAIGN UPDATE! notes and action items from the last meeting

2009-03-10T20:47:00.005-08:00

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!

green latrine

2009-03-04T20:27:00.001-09:00

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

Join the Facebook Cause

2009-03-02T22:24:00.002-09:00

Campaign Meeting #3 Action Items

2009-02-26T11:16:00.002-09:00

- 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.

THE PETITION

2009-02-23T22:52:00.003-09:00

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..

ACTION ITEMS from FEBRUARY 12th to 25th

2009-02-15T22:43:00.000-09:00

everyone edit peition and make final edits, mariah makes final petition on tuesday, maeve will send out final draft to everyone
each chapter presents their # of sig goals
elena researchs making facebook cause
nara and anna turn petition into online petition in google docs and publish on website
oshi and joe will work on making a power point presentation by using research on the blog
maya makes a green latrine that whole state can use
luc will talk to highschool class about potential collaboration and ask anna, elena, steph if he needs help
researchers continue researching and look at the blog for additional resources!

CONTRIBUTE TO THE BLOG

2009-02-15T22:18:00.002-09:00

If you have been invited to "contribute" to the blog, you can! In order to "POST" you need to log in with a Google Account. Unfortunately, you cannot use member@ayea.org to log in. You must have a GMAIL account. If you don't have one, and don't want to create one, please email Anna at barnwella@ayea.org to find out how you can log in and post.

You can also contribute to the blog by making a "COMMENT". Click below any of the published posts and make your "comment". When it asks for a profile, just pick "Anonymous" or, click "Name/URL" and enter your name (no URL is needed).

Contact Anna at barnwella@ayea.org with ANY questions or to have her post information/links/random things for you. THANKS! -- Anna

2nd Campaign Meeting: Thursday, Feb 12th 6pm

2009-02-11T11:40:00.007-09:00

Please join us for the 2nd CAMPAIGN MEETING

in the AYEA Conference room or via Teleconference:
1-800-791-2345, the passcode is 33749#.
This meeting should take about 45 minutes.

Please look at the AGENDA to prepare yourself for the meeting.
If you weren't able to join us for the 1st meeting,
check out the meeting notes to see what we talked about.

Also, if you want to be reminded of what is going on,
check out the campaign outline that was created at the SWLR.
Click here for Contact Info and Roles for the Campaign Leadership Team,
consisting of both AYEA Members and Adult Mentors.