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Speaker: Mike Ewall (on Energy and Environmental Justice issues)

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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/

Speak Out: Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films

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Speak Out works with 200 speakers and artists who represent the breadth of social movements as well as critically-acclaimed exhibits and films which inform and empower young people to take action for positive social change.

Wynona LaDuke, Media Benjamin, Boots Riley of The Coup, Howard Zinn, Van Jones, and Peggy McIntosh are just a few of the great speakers and artists that you can find on this site to bring to your campus or community. Issue topics include racism, multiculturalism, class/labor, environment, storytelling, and theater among others.

http://www.speakoutnow.org

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