History
No Nukes, Go Solar! Campaign - Florida students will be pressuring the Florida Public Service Commission and elected officials to stop all proposed new nuclear reactors by teaming up with Florida activists and allied organizations. Four new reactors have been proposed through Florida Power and Light and Progress Energy, and not only are these proposed nuclear reactors going to cost billions of taxpayer dollars, but anti-consumer legislation in Florida even allows these corporations to bill their ratepayers now for new reactors that have not been licensed yet. This process is called early-cost recovery, and with new reactors costing as much as $42 billion, we can only expect ratepayers to be hit with higher energy rates as utilities continue to pursue new nuclear. Students have already felt this affect in Florida, particularly on those campuses serviced by these utility companies.
Florida students will be pushing for more investment in solar power through their Student Green Energy Fund work and a divestment in nuclear energy on their campuses. Florida students will also be pressuring their elected officials by demonstrating their leadership for a clean energy economy and demanding a clean energy future for Florida. Students will be asking their University Presidents to sign a commitment for clean and safe energy through their Student Green Energy Fund work, to ensure that campuses embrace real, clean energy solutions – not false solutions like nuclear.
Power Vote 2008 and 2010 - During the past two election years, Florida youth and Southern Energy Network have collaborated with the Energy Action Coalition on their Power Vote campaign. Most recently Florida youth included voter registration into the tradition voter engagement campaign. In 2010 Youth In Florida registered over 2,000 voters, engaged 3000 currently registered voters, and made 3,000 Get out the vote phone calls.
Power Shift 2011 - Hundreds of Florida students attended Power Shift 2011, which is hosted by the Energy Action Coalition and supported by Southern Energy Network. Florida Youth raised more than $30,000 to support 250 students attending Power Shift in Washington, DC. Florida YES leaders served as Coaches and Facilitators in the nation’s largest movement building and grassroots organizing training, organized by New Organizing Institute in partnership with Energy Action Coalition.
BP Oil Disaster Response - Florida youth hosted energy independence events in July. Students at FGCU, UF and FIU got very involved within the larger community in holding buzz cuts for the Gulf and collecting hair while constructing hair boom. Several campuses received campus and community media hits around the work they did. Students also wrote LTEs, made phones calls, and lobbied the state legislator around this issue.
Florida students will be pushing for more investment in solar power through their Student Green Energy Fund work and a divestment in nuclear energy on their campuses. Florida students will also be pressuring their elected officials by demonstrating their leadership for a clean energy economy and demanding a clean energy future for Florida. Students will be asking their University Presidents to sign a commitment for clean and safe energy through their Student Green Energy Fund work, to ensure that campuses embrace real, clean energy solutions – not false solutions like nuclear.
Power Vote 2008 and 2010 - During the past two election years, Florida youth and Southern Energy Network have collaborated with the Energy Action Coalition on their Power Vote campaign. Most recently Florida youth included voter registration into the tradition voter engagement campaign. In 2010 Youth In Florida registered over 2,000 voters, engaged 3000 currently registered voters, and made 3,000 Get out the vote phone calls.
Power Shift 2011 - Hundreds of Florida students attended Power Shift 2011, which is hosted by the Energy Action Coalition and supported by Southern Energy Network. Florida Youth raised more than $30,000 to support 250 students attending Power Shift in Washington, DC. Florida YES leaders served as Coaches and Facilitators in the nation’s largest movement building and grassroots organizing training, organized by New Organizing Institute in partnership with Energy Action Coalition.
BP Oil Disaster Response - Florida youth hosted energy independence events in July. Students at FGCU, UF and FIU got very involved within the larger community in holding buzz cuts for the Gulf and collecting hair while constructing hair boom. Several campuses received campus and community media hits around the work they did. Students also wrote LTEs, made phones calls, and lobbied the state legislator around this issue.