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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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Powerpoint or PDF.  This a combination of the slides used for EJN's presentations on nuclear power, coal, energy and environmental justice / how energy impacts communities and the presentations on clean energy solutions in both the electricity and transportation sectors.

http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/

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This is a great introductory to purchasing green power.  It lays out the benefits of buying renewables and outlines common transaction types.  This resource will help students engage administration in a more sophisticated way and avoid common stumbling blocks to achieving renewable purchasing goals.

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/pdfs/purchase_green_power.pdf

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Invite Toolkit

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Check out the National Wildlife Federation's new report, The Business Case for Climate Action on Campus, which provides the ammunition to convince even the most skeptical and conservative decision-makers that clean energy is not only better for the planet, it’s also better for the bottom line.  100+ case studies from 32 states about clean energy.  Download the report, press release, and list of schools included here:

http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/BusinessCase/index.cfm

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Growing Green Collar Jobs explores how sustainability can be an economic engine for New York City. We define green-collar jobs as work in an environmental sector that provides family-sustaining wages, workplace safety and health, and chances for advancement. Prepared for the New York City Apollo Alliance, the report looks at the opportunities for creating new green-collar jobs, the importance of retooling existing jobs to incorporate environmental practices, and the barriers to green-collar job creation.

http://www.urbanagenda.org/projects.htm#growing

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environmentaleducator.org

 has the 39 minute educational film the world needs to see, because it has the information that will change people's way of thinking. Then people can get a free daily education, to end environmental illiteracy the biggest environmental problem we have today. The movie even contains a letter from Al stating he is impressed with this work.

environmentaleducator.org

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Energy Bill 2007 Toolkit: A resource guide to help influence members of congress to pass a VERY strong Energy Bill. Get ideas, call scripts, and critical materials to help ensure that we make lots of noise on this critical piece of legislation.

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Test Resources

http://climatechallenge.org

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This workshop provides an introduction to community organizing for youth/student activists, and is based on the Energy Justice Network's Campus-Community Organizing Guide (CCOG), available at http://www.energyjustice.net/campus/ccog.pdf. It is an introductory workshop, though it can be valuable for folks with a more advanced analysis and skill set.

http://www.energyjustice.net/campus/solidarity.doc