Public Invited to UMaine ‘Energy Action Day’ Nov. 14
Contact: Rob Goodwin, 518-578-6235; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — UMaine’s student-led Green Team is organizing “Energy Action Day” on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, featuring a lecture, exhibits, discussions, food and entertainment.
The event is free and open to the public. The day’s activities are being organized to connect students and the community with the clean energy and energy conservation initiatives that exist in the state of Maine, according to Rob Goodwin, president of the Maine Outing Club and an Energy Action Day co-organizer.
The Green Team at UMaine was formed last year ago to involve greater numbers of UMaine students with sustainability efforts on campus.
“Youth have been at the forefront of change when our nation has faced challenges like opposing the war, the civil rights movement and women’s suffrage,” says one of the Energy Action Day presenters, Morgan Goodwin, a Sierra Student Coalition founder and community organizer, and student at Williams College in Massachusetts. “Today we face a climate and energy crisis which seems daunting in its scale, and yet we must seize the opportunity to create a just and sustainable society now. We will share stories of people creating change, discuss what it means to be effective — get stuff done — and maybe even leave with a plan to save the world.”
Scheduled events include:
2-4 p.m.
Morgan Goodwin and Zo Tobi, the Sierra Student Coalition, Washington, D.C., a Community Organizing Forum
4-5 p.m.
A keynote address by Habib Dagher, professor of civil engineering and director of Advance Engineering Wood Composite and an expert on offshore wind energy, “A Comprehensive Energy Plan for Maine”
5-6 p.m.
Music by the Marsh Island String Band and Tavi Merrill and Michael C. Moody; light snacks will be served
An organization fair presented by the: Society for Conservation Biology; Campus Health and Environment Network; Green Team; Progressive Student Alliance; and Green Campus Initiative
And Bill Drinkwater, director of EVMaine.org, will promote affordable, fun and zero-emissions electric cars in Maine, and Gary Westerman, representing the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s Climate Action Plan, will have a guest exhibit.
Additional information is available by calling co-organizer Rob Goodwin at 518-578-6235.