For Immediate Release
October 4, 2008
Contact: Brianna Cayo Cotter, Communications Director, Energy Action Coalition
E-Mail: Brianna@energyaction.net
Phone: (415) 305 1943
"Power Vote" Wind Turbine Tailgating Party at UT Game Today
University of Tennessee-Knoxville students bring national wind power art installation to Claxton Courtyard Tailgating party
KNOXVILLE, TN – The "Power Vote" Debate Tour Bus is rolling into Knoxville to help local students make a dramatic visual statement about clean energy. Members of SPEAK (Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville) from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, will present a "clean energy" art installation of nine-foot tall windmills at the Claxton Courtyard all day.
WHO: "Power Vote" activists from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, members of Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK) and representatives from the national Power Vote campaign.
WHAT: Presenting a "clean energy" art installation of nine-foot tall windmills and
WHERE: Claxton Courtyard (off of Volunteer Blvd, near the seal)
WHEN: Saturday, October 4, 1-6 PM
VISUALS: Nine-foot tall windmills, student "Power Vote" activists
Spearheaded by the youth-led Energy Action Coalition, Power Vote is a national non-partisan initiative to elevate the issue of climate change this election season. Power Vote aims to unite young "climate voters" behind a platform centered on combating global warming pollution, creating millions of new green jobs, and ensuring our nation's energy independence by transitioning to a dynamic new clean
energy economy.
At the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Students Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville (SPEAK) is running one of the country's top Power Vote campaigns. Nearly 2000 students have taken the "Power Vote Pledge" to "vote for clean and just energy."
"Young people are already successfully fighting for a clean energy future on their campuses and in their communities," says Reagan Richmond, a Power Vote student leader at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. "We need an economy that moves us beyond dirty energy, creates green jobs for all, and secures our climate. As we head to the polls in record numbers this November, that's what we'll
be voting for."
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The Energy Action Coalition unites 48 organizations, over 600 local groups, and tens of thousands of young people in 56 states and provinces in an alliance that supports and strengthens the clean energy movement among students and young people in the United States and Canada. The partners of Energy Action work together to build a clean, efficient, just and renewable energy future.
