Al Gore Webcast Part of UMaine Outing Club Event Tonight
Contact: Robert Goodwin, (518) 578-6235
ORONO — Free pizza and a Webcast by former vice president and global warming authority Al Gore will be part of a program scheduled tonight at the Memorial Union’s Bangor Room in conjunction with a get-out-the-vote effort by the Maine Outing Club at UMaine.
The event is free and open to the public. It is intended to raise awareness about the need for new and alternative energy sources, according to outing club president Rob Goodwin.
Beginning at 8:30 p.m., Gore’s talk will be shown on the big screen as he addresses more than 200 college campuses across the county via a live Webcast from the website of powervote.org, a national organization dedicated to demanding of political candidates “real solutions to global warming,” according to its website.
Over the past two weeks, the University of Maine Powervote Movement, organized by student Amy Marchessault and sponsored by the University of Maine Green Team, has collected more than 500 Powervote pledges, with more being gathered by the day, says Goodwin.
Goodwin is encouraging members of the university and surrounding communities to log on to www.powervote.org for more information about the movement and specifics of the clean energy, climate justice, green jobs and no coal platform.
The top goal for tonight’s event is to encourage UMaine students to vote on Nov. 4 and to encourage students to vote with the knowledge of the Powervote platform, Goodwin says.
“Goal number three is to encourage students to take some action as soon as they can to promote clean energy, green jobs, no coal, and climate justice,” he adds.
From 8-8:30 p.m., free pizza will be provided courtesy of the National Energy Action Coalition, while environmental groups on campus use Marketplace tables to promote their causes. Gore will speak at 8:30 for 20-30 minutes, and will be followed by a talk by UMaine alum and state Rep. Emily Cain, D-Orono.
For additional information, Goodwin can be reached at 518-578-6235 or by email on FirstClass.