VA Coal Campaign: What you can do
CCAN Virginia Volunteer Campaign Positions
Leadership to Stop Coal
- Join the Truth Squad - The Virginia Global Warming Media Truth Squad is a list of on call volunteers who want to help frame the issue of global warming to our local newspapers as the emergency it is by writing letters to the editor. Learn more>>
- No Coal Resolution Advocate - We need community leaders to become Resolution Advocates, people who are willing to meet with their local elected officials to let them know that the Wise County power plant is a BIG ISSUE to their constituency. Learn more>>
- No Coal Petition Leader - As a petition leader, your responsibilities will include petitioning, recruiting petitioners to help you, identifying hot sites to petition at, and acting as a liaison for people that need assistance with basic petitioning. Learn more>>
- Chapter Facilitator - Chapter leaders call for meetings, facilitate discussions, brainstorm, and help ensure the chapter remains active in the fight to stop coal and global warming. Learn more>>
- Clean Energy House Partier - House parties are a great opportunity for friends, neighbors and community members to get together in an informal setting to discuss an issue of shared concern – coal and global warming. Learn more>>
- No Coal Lobby Leader - Do you feel most comfortable dressed up, discussing global warming and coal with the people that have the power to change our laws? Learn more>>
- Letter to Leaders - Taking the time to write a letter to your elected officials shows that you care about an issue and that your level of commitment goes past point and click e-activism. Learn more>>
Do you ever get frustrated with the mainstream media’s portrayal of global warming? Do you yearn for the opportunity to get up on a soapbox and let people know what the truth about global warming is? The Virginia Global Warming Media Truth Squad is a list of on call volunteers who want to help frame the issue of global warming to our local newspapers as the emergency it is by writing letters to the editor. The letters to the editor section of the newspaper is the second most read part of the newspaper and a great opportunity to get some good press. By joining this campaign you will receive email updates and talking points every other week, personal help with you letters on demand, and you will get the satisfaction of seeing your name in the paper when your letter gets published.
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information and to sign up for this campaign.
Part of our strategy to fight the Wise County power plant and coal in Virginia is to get every local government to sign on to a resolution that states (oversimplified and in short): we don’t need more coal energy! Our goal is to get every City Council and every County Board to parlay their local power into pressure on their state legislator to stop this plant. We need community leaders to become Resolution Advocates, people who are willing to meet with their local elected officials to let them know that the Wise County power plant is a BIG ISSUE to their constituency. CCAN will help to prepare you for the meeting by briefing you on the subject, providing you with fact sheets and information, and we can even be present at the meeting to give you organizational support.
Contact steve@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
To stop the proposed coal power plant, we need 100,000 signatures on a mile long petition in order to prove that we have the overwhelming support of Virginian’s in opposition to the plant. We need outgoing and energetic leaders to step up and help us reach our lofty goals. As a petition leader, your responsibilities will include petitioning, recruiting petitioners to help you, identifying hot sites to petition at, and acting as a liaison for people that need assistance with basic petitioning. This is a great way to build your leadership skills within the movement and help us inch closer to a mile long petition and a clean energy future.
Sign up to be a Coal Petition Leader>>
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
In order to gain the momentum needed to sustain a real social movement, we need people that want to create a network of self reinforcing and semi-autonomous groups of activists – chapters. All good chapters need good leaders to call for meetings, facilitate discussions, brainstorm, and help ensure the chapter remains active in the fight to stop coal and global warming. Chapter facilitators are outgoing, motivated and helpful people – sounds like you, right?
Sign up to be a Chapter Facilitator>>
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
As anyone that has ever watched a good college movie from the 80s and 90s knows, partying is the solution to all of our problems. House parties are a great opportunity for friends, neighbors and community members to get together in an informal setting to discuss an issue of shared concern – coal and global warming. If you like mingling, watching great documentaries, and talking about global warming over cocktails, then it is time to become an official clean energy house partier.
Sign up to be a House Partier>>
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
Do you feel most comfortable dressed up, discussing global warming and coal with the people that have the power to change our laws? There is no shortage of elected officials to meet with – from our County Board members to our State Delegates and Senators – all it takes is a little bit of time and a small group of constituents. Flex your political muscle and savvy, become a lobby leader today!
Sign up to be a No Coal Lobby Leader>>
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
One of the most influential tools that activists possess is the hand written letter. Taking the time to write a letter to your elected officials shows that you care about an issue and that your level of commitment goes past point and click e-activism. We can provide you with talking points and the information that you need to write a convincing and effective letter about coal and global warming – all you have to do is write it and mail it.
Sign up to be write letters to leaders>>
Contact antigone@chesapeakeclimate.org for more information.
