Starting Date: 06-02-2006
Ending Date: 06-04-2006
Boulder, Colorado 80301
United States
303-245-8637By now, we have all heard the warnings: North American temperatures up 7-14� F in our children�s lifetimes. Increasing risk of catastrophic sea level rise. A world altered beyond recognition.
This does not have to be our future. And the next few years will determine if we can turn the corner.
We can stop global warming, but it will demand a powerful social movement to overcome political and corporate inertia, and catalyze a clean energy revolution. At the same time, a new wave of new coal-fired plants has been proposed. Their construction will aggravate dangerous levels of mercury and other air pollutants, and make it even more difficult to achieve stabilization of the global climate.
Join us at a weekend organizing and skills training workshop to pull together existing efforts to fight coal plants, promote clean energy, and help build the grassroots movement that can stop global warming.
Join Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Leslie Glustrom, Clean Energy Action; Eban Goodstein, Green House Network; Billy Parrish, Energy Action; Meg Boyle, Climate Campaign; Dan Worth, National Association of Environmental Law Societies, and lots more.
Who should come? All folks concerned about global warming and interested in stopping a proposed new generation of dirty coal plants. The workshop will provide the perspective of experienced activists on how to work with the media, the legal system, and grassroots organizing to build the clean energy movement and anti-coal plant campaigns. Examples of other successful coal plant and climate change movements will be presented. Connections with other activists will be made and strengthened. You will have a set of tools to use in building or strengthening global warming and anti-coal plant campaigns in your state.
NOTE: Past participants have included artists, engineers, students, clergy members, retirees, nurses, architects, college professors, and scientists. Graduates of former GHN training workshops are encouraged to participate!
June 2-4, 2006
Calwood Education Center
Jamestown, Colorado
Free For Students! Other folks: registration fee of $100 includes food and lodging for Friday and Saturday nights. Full and partial scholarships available.
To register or for more information, e-mail Leslie Glustrom lglustrom at qwest.net, or call call 303-245-8637.
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