Energy Action Coalition

Energy Action Coalition includes more than 40 youth and student organizations from the US and Canada to help support and strengthen the clean energy and climate movements in North America. It is formally allied with 350.org.


 * Jessy Tolkan - former Executive Director

Founding
The Coalition was formed in June 2004 when local and national groups came together concerned about our addiction to fossil fuels. The Coalition was a "way to increase coordination for national and international actions and to strengthen the growing climate movement. The coalition's founding meeting was held in Washington, DC and included representatives from almost twenty groups. Attendees quickly reached a consensus on forming an American and Canadian coalition with unified messaging and coordinated actions."

In January 2005, a second meeting was held which included Energy Action partners and students from Canada and the U.S.

Coalition partners
Partners include:
 * Campus Progress
 * Chesapeake Climate Action Network
 * Green For All
 * Indigenous Environmental Network
 * National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology program
 * NJPIRG New Jersey Students Public Interest Research Group
 * Responsible Endowments Coalition
 * Student Environmental Action Coalition

Personnel
Accessed January 2011:
 * Courtney Hight, Executive Director
 * Adam Hlava, Operations Director
 * Anjali Helferty, Managing Director
 * Ethan Nuss, Co-Field Director
 * Lilian Molina, Environmental Justice Director
 * Whit Jones, Co-Field Director

Website
http://energyactioncoalition.org

Resources

 * Jeffrey St. Clair, The Post-Modern Protest Blues, Designer Protests and Vanity Arrests in DC, CounterPunch, April 12, 2013.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Citizen groups working on coal issues
 * Coal moratorium
 * Global warming
 * Michael Cox
 * Jake Brewer
 * Billy Parish - cofounder

External resources

 * ClimateChallenge.org, a project of Energy Action Coalition.
 * VIDEO: State of the Union Question, Energy Action Coalition, accessed January 2011.
 * Georges Dyer, "Energy Action Coalition Launches Power Vote 2010", Advancing Education for Sustainability, July 12, 2010.