100 Actions: A Drumbeat So Loud It Can't Be Ignored

Millions of young people are impacted by dirty energy every day — more than half a million from coal-fired power plants right on their college campuses.

This is unacceptable, and we are excited to launch a new campaign push with partners across the country to take this injustice head on: 100 Actions for 100% Clean Energy.

This October, over 100 local actions will challenge our university administrators and local officials to move beyond dirty energy, and unite the voices of our generation behind the call for 100% clean energy solutions.

Students from Washington, DC and the Greenpeace Student Network created this video to show the power we have when we come together.

Here’s how it works:

  • Through the month of October we will organize local actions to demand university and local officials commit to 100% clean energy — demanding the solutions we need with massive demonstrations at coal plants and creative actions at decision-makers’ doorsteps.

  • We’ll tell our stories and support one another on WeArePowerShift.org (you can already find some great action ideas and toolkits posted there to help you get started).

  • Put together, these 100 actions will showcase the power of our movement. We’ll use our stories and actions to demand President Obama stand up to Big Polluters on the Keystone XL pipeline and make good on his promises to advance critical EPA public health protections.

It’s a big and ambitious plan, and it starts with you: put your campus or community on the map!

We’re kicking things off next Tuesday on a national call with two of the leading figures in the fight to move beyond coal. Mike Brune and Phil Radford, the Executive Directors of the Sierra Club and Greenpeace will join us, along with youth leaders from across the country planning bold actions for October.

Not sure what an action on your campus could look like? This is the perfect opportunity to get ideas! RSVP to join the call next Tuesday at 9 PM ET.

Last April, we saw that when 10,000 of us come together in the nation’s capital our presence is felt. But history tells us that the real power shift won’t come from DC, it starts on your campus and in your community. This October, when hundreds of us come together at hundreds of actions, we will create a drumbeat of action so loud that it will be impossible to ignore.

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