dirty energy

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Overview:
This facilitator's guide provides an introduction to fighting dirty facilities through grassroots community organizing. It is intermediate level, and can be used to form an ambitious and effective campaign.

Focus/Goals:
-Provide grassroots community activists and organizations with the tools and advice they need to defeat proposed dirty energy and waste facilities in their own backyards
-Develop participant's understanding and articulation of their own motivations for the issues at hand
-Develop action items for a collaborative campaign

 

Full workshop available at http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities.pdf
Handouts available at http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities-handout.pdf

http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/fighting-facilities.pdf

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Mike Ewall is founder and director of the Energy Justice Network, one of the Energy Action Coalition's founding members. EJN helps grassroots community groups around the U.S. and beyond in their efforts to stop polluting energy and waste industries. Ewall has worked extensively with student and community environmental groups since getting involved in 10th grade in high school in 1990. A skillful public speaker and organizer, he's been a national leader in developing networks of students and community members seeking to stop proposed coal power plants, incinerators and numerous other damaging energy industries. He has led winning campaigns to stop proposed nuclear waste dumps, incinerators, liquefied natural gas terminals and much more. Through his research and networking, he has educated many students and community groups on the hazards posed by dirty energy generation and has helped them work together in campaigns to protect vulnerable communities.

Topics include:

• Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism
• Energy and Environmental Justice
• Replacing all Dirty Power with Clean Energy Within our Lifetime
• Don't Nuke the Climate!
• Green Energy or Green Scam? -- "Green Energy" Marketing and Biomass
• The Burning Issues with Biomass and Biofuels
• Beyond Combustion Engines: Breaking the Oil Addiction with Clean Energy in Transportation
• No New Coal Plants!
• Global Warming Loopholes

Contact info and descriptions of these and other workshop topics can be found here:

http://www.actionpa.org/speaking/

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A well-researched one-page assessment of all energy sources, from best to worst.

http://www.energyjustice.net/technologies.pdf

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"The whole, condensed truth on waste coal"

http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/wastecoal/

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"The whole, condensed truth on hydrogen"

http://www.energyjustice.net/hydrogen

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A clean and useful one-pager from the Energy Justice Network, covering the environmental justice-related consequences of dirty energy technologies.

http://www.energyjustice.net/ej/energy-ej.pdf

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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), with the support of Clear the Air, issued this report, which found that more than 7 out of 10 Hispanic Americans are breathing air that violates federal pollution standards. Hispanic Americans face a threat 16 percent greater than the overall population.

http://www.cleartheair.org/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=25660

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Most African Americans live near a power plant. Sixty-eight percent of African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant — the distance within which the maximum effects of the smokestack plume are expected to occur. By comparison, about 56% of the white population live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant. This report from Clear the Air details the disproportionate affects of power plant pollution on African Americans in the United States. 

http://www.cleartheair.org/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=23900