CT Colleges Organizing at University of Hartford March 28

Dear readers:

Please see the message below regarding follow-up to Powershift. There will be an open meeting at University of Hartford on March 28th at 1 pm, lasting no later than 3 pm, currently focused on getting students involved in advocating (federal?) renewable energy legislation. I myself think that some time should be spent on state legislation. Also note that March 28th is the day of Earth Hour, when everyone turns off their lights for an hour at 8:30 pm to acknowledge the carbon footprint of electricity.

Message:

Hi everyone,

We are so happy that you decided to stay in touch, and we want to jump right in by all gathering at the University of Hartford (CT) in just about two weeks on Saturday, March 28th at 1pm. We have the space booked till 3, and we will just take the time we need within that frame.

This will be a pretty nuts and bolts meeting that will be really important for establishing both our coalition and an infrastructure for communication between schools going forward. We are planning to make federal climate policy the backbone of our work, and we can be a crucial voice for getting a strong climate bill passed before talks in December!

We would love to have at least two representatives from each school in CT and really want to reach out to universities which weren't represented at Powershift. If anyone has contacts in those schools that I should target for getting people there, please let me know.

If you are from a school outside of CT but want to keep in touch, offer resources that might be helpful to us going forward or want to discuss collaboration, please be in touch! This crucial work won't happen without the voices of engaged and committed groups, so please come and help us lay the groundwork for a needed and dynamic coalition.

When: Saturday, March 28th at 1pm
Where: University of Hartford, Room 333 in the Gengras Student Union
What: Statewide coalition of students committed to pushing for a strong climate bill and clean,
renewable solutions
Why: If not you, who?

Directions are here: http://www.hartford.edu/about/info.asp?item=driving
Campus Map is here: http://www.hartford.edu/about/map/buildings.asp
Gengras Student union is building #25.

Thanks so much and call/ email with questions!

Jacqueline Rowland
Clean Water Action
CTCleanEnergyCampus
860.232.6232

Tyler Dunham
Renewable Energy Club
Connecticut College
tdunham@conncoll.edu