This is What a Clean Energy Future Looks Like

Whew!  We just got back from a whole week with the organizers, leaders, and front-line activists of the Power Vote campaign, training them on the skills needed to successfully fight for a clean energy future on their campuses and in their communities. The goal of their campaign:  get one million pledges from young people that they will vote this November and make clean energy a top issue in this election.

200 young people from all over the country (and Canada!) gathered in St. Paul for an in-depth, hands-on skills training on everything from executing a press event, to having one-to-one meetings with fellow students, and confronting candidates on the issues.

Check out these two videos from the event.  The first one gives you a small taste of the week and what the students were doing in their interactive sessions.  The second one is an example of the awesome simulated Youtube videos that students came up with to get their message out on campus.

We need to think harder, work harder and ask more questions!!

Submitted by Private Information (not verified) on September 29, 2008 - 2:58pm.

Top questions for all of us to think about today: 1. Are we as American voters convinced that we have to vote for either McCain or Obama as our next president in November,08? 2. Are you convinced that there will be no other person in the entire United States that can serve us better than McCain or Obama? 3. Why would Obama gain so much more support than say Joe Biden during primary election especially when Joe Biden appeared to be so much more qualified than Obama? What is the message here? 4. How has our democratic election process embraced the idealism of equal opportunity? 5. What does it tell you about McCain's judgement and decision when he decides to pick Sarah Palin as his VP? Comment: It seems to me both Republican and Democratic Parties put their interns to work before they even complete their intership assuming there is such a thing called presidential and vice presidential internship. .

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