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THE essential Youth Power Shift campaign resource. This guide for running a clean energy campaign on your campus provides the student activist with advice and resources related to energy audits, environmental justice work, conservation, green building, clean energy purchasing, and more.

A Table of Contents

  1. Introduction Youth Power Shift Campaign Summary
  2. Project Specifics
    1. Greenhouse Gas Audits & Emissions Reductions Pledges
    2. Supporting Environmental Justice Fights
    3. Running Energy Conservation Campaigns
    4. Implementing Green Building Policies for New Building Projects
    5. Buying Clean Energy from a Clean Energy Company
    6. Installing Solar Panels or Windmills On-Site
    7. Transportation Solutions
    8. International Solidarity - "Leapfrog" Energy Development in Africa
  3. Instituting & Funding Your Goals
    1. Building Your Organization
    2. Setting Goals
    3. Running a Direct Action Campaign
    4. Running a Ballot/Legislative Campaign

Appendices

  1. Sample Materials
  2. Other Resources

Credits

This packet was written by Marie Bergen (University of South Carolina Students Allied for a Greener Earth), Dave Carhart (Wesleyan University Environmental Organizers' Network), Nick Algee (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy), and Joshua Lynch (Student Environmental Action Coalition). Layout and graphics were done by Geoff Ower (Illinois State University) and Karl Zehr (Youngstown State University). Advice and editing was given by Mike Ewall, a long time SEACer and environmental justice activist who lives in Philadelphia and co-runs an activist training house with his partner, Traci Confer. Thanks to all the other youth and student activists who provided additional edits and advice for this packet.

The following resources were used in compiling this packet:
  • Workbook for a Clean Energy Campus by The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies and The University of Colorado-Boulder Environmental Center
  • Clean Energy Now: Campus Guide by the Greenpeace Clean Energy Now campaign staff
  • $mart $avings: Cost Effective Environmental Solutions for Schools and Universities by Courtney Blodgett (University of Rhode Island)
  • How to Get Your School to Buy Wind Energy a guide by Kathleen Shaffer (Mt. Holyoke College).
  • Student Environmental Action Coalition Organizing Guide by Aaron Kreider (Notre Dame University)

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