Clean Energy Rally photos!

We had a great clean energy rally on Thursday at 12:30 in front of the Central Heating Plant on Fee Lane. Thank you everyone who came out and a special thank you to our speakers: Professor Maurice Manning and Senior Terrence Ellison!

In case you missed it check out some of the photos below!

Check out some coverage of Coal Free Campus Rallies across the country:

Penn State

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, movie of the rally

University of Minnesota

University of North Dakota

SUNY Binghamton

Guerrilla Theater: Coal Free Man vs King Coal

Check out our group’s guerrilla theater team performance on October 16th in the IMU food court as part of the Bloomington 350 Week of Actions on Climate Change!

 

 

Coal Free IU at Bloomington 350

Check out some of our photos from Bloomington 350~

(You can find more on our photo website!)

Green Potluck Slideshow in the IDS!

Thanks again to everyone who made it out to the Green Potluck! We had a really great time eating locally donated foods, carving pumpkins and taking some photo and video petitions. The IDS came out to cover our event and took some really great photos, check them out here or below:

Photo credit: Thomas Miller, IDS

(Note: click on the pictures above to advance!)

 

Green Potluck TODAY!!

Join us today (Wednesday) for our green potluck!!! We will have tons of food and pumpkin carving so come on over to the peoples Park on Kirkwood anytime from 5pm to 7pm! See you soon!

Join us tomorrow: Bloomington 350

Tomorrow as part of a national day of action people from all over the world representing over 177 countries will come together to take action on climate change. Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe upper limit for humanity. We are currently over 387.

Coal is the #1  contributor to CO2 emissions nationwide, accounting for over 30% of global warming pollution in the United States. That means a lot for us living in Bloomington. Indiana’s carbon dioxide emission per capita is number one in the country, with a significant portion of that coming from coal-fired plants including IU’s Central Heating Plant on Fee Lane.

Bloomington residents and IU students are coming together this Saturday to take action and call for change. Join Coal Free IU and the Bloomington 350 Coalition for a day full of events:

• Mayor Mark Kruzan will kick off the event at 12:00pm at the Bloomington Community’s Farmers Market
• Then join the parade to Third Street Park at 12:30pm
• From 1pm – 5pm join us for speakers, music, and artistic demonstrations in Third Street Park

Make sure to come find the Coal Free IU Campaign and take a photo petition to call for transitioning IU beyond coal to 100% clean, renewable energy! We will be wearing our yellow Beyond Coal shirts and buttons!

Also, check out the coverage of the event in the IDS!

Sign our Petition–online!

Our postcard petition is now online!!

http://tinyurl.com/CoalFreeIUPetition

Campaign Update: We have collected over 1,000 signatures to President McRobbie!

The Bloomington Alternative and ways to join our campaign

Check out a new article by the Bloomington Alternative talking about our campaign!

There are still a ton of ways to get involved!

Join one of our committees:

• Grassroots Campaign (collect signatures on our petitions and organize call in days)
• Media Coverage (help run press conference, pitch reporters and get our campaign more coverage–like in the article above)
• Media Publications (be a voice behind the campaign and write your own stories)
• Coalitions with Student and Community Groups (build alliances with other organizations and community members)
• Coalitions with Faculty and Administration (build alliances within the institution)
• Events Coordinating (help plan events in any of our subgroups: visual arts, theater, music, and educational events)
• Visibility (design fliers, online communications, and more!)

Email us at coalfreeiu@gmail.com for more information on how to get involved!

National Day of Action: Photo Petition Drive–another HUGE SUCCESS!

On Tuesday, Sept 29 we held a National Day of Action Photo Petition drive outside of Ballantine Hall from 10am–3pm. Thanks to everyone who came out! In a few hours we were able to collect over 300 photograph petitions for our campaign. This was an action that was part of the National Day of Action with events happening across the country. On Tuesday over 2,400 photo petitions were taken and will be sent to the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and the White House.

Find your photo on our website: http://coalfreeiu.shutterfly.com/

One of our coordinators, James McClatchie, even made it into the second page of the IDS yesterday!!

If you missed us look out for more photo petition events next week. (More information to follow.)