Indigenous Environmental Network

Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Toolkit: Click Image to download the Toolkit. Power Shift 2009 Power Shift 2009 Aftermath! From February 27 to March 2, over 11,000 young people gathered in Washington DC to lobby U.S. Congress on climate change, clean energy and green jobs! Among them were 200 Native American students from the U.S. and Canada who participated in the largest youth climate conference ever! Black Mesa Water Coalition took about 40 Indigenous students from the southwest. Thank you to all who supported these students in the fund raising effort to get them to and from Washington DC safely. Please visit the website for Power Shift, www.powershift09.org/ and/or www.blackmesawatercoalition.org for more info. Watch the videos below from this incredible week of youth taking charge and demanding positive change!

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2009 MARIO SAVIO YOUNG ACTIVIST AWARD - Deadline for nominations: June 30, 2009 INDIGENOUS STUDENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Youth Climate: Green Jobs, Clean Futures BioTour Bus to Visit United Tribes SEEDS NEWSLETTER - April/May 2008 Students of the EAC's Power Shift Rally 2007 MHA Times Article on IEN Boys and Girls Club, Fort Berthold TCCC Summit, March 2008

Kandi Mosset | Power Shift Congressional Testimony

Kandi Mosset of the Indigenous Environmental Network gives an emotional and extraordinarily compelling testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Thank You To All Who Signed the Pledge!

Thank you to everyone that helped the Indigenous Environmental Network in our goal to get out the Native Vote through Power Vote! The campaign was a success in getting clean energy on the agenda and in getting record numbers of youth voter turnout. Sometimes we may seem overwhelmed with what lies ahead in the struggle for clean and just energy but the success of this campaign proves that we can be victorious and that even the little things we do add up to make a big difference! Thank you all so much for signing the pledge and for helping in the fight to help protect our Mother Earth.

Lets keep the momentum going as we head to Washington D.C. February 27th-March 2nd to hold our leaders accountable for clean and just energy during Power Shift 2009, www.powershift09.org. Be on the lookout for updates about Power Shift 2009 and if you are student interested in attending please contact Kandi Mossett at iencampusclimate@igc.org or at (701) 214-1389. Thank you!

To view larger images from Power Vote 2008, click thumbnails below...

Power Vote at United Tribes Technical College	Power Vote at 2008 Bioneers Conference
Power Vote at Fort Berthold Community College	Power Vote at Sitting Bull College

Tribal Campus Climate Challenge

The Tribal Campus Climate Challenge is a project created in partnership with the Energy Action Coalitions Campus Climate Challenge; which leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across the US and Canada to win 100% clean energy policies at their schools. The Tribal Campus Climate Challenge focuses on working with students in Tribal community colleges and is slated to involve more than 40 tribal and community colleges across the US. The Indigenous Thought Concept Paper was put together to explain why the Indigenous Environmental Network has chosen to take part in the Campus Climate Challenge.

About the Campus Climate Challenge

So far there are over 600 colleges and universities that have signed on to take part in the Campus Climate Challenge with 22 of those being tribal college and high school groups. The Indigenous Environmental Network is one of 46 partners within the Energy Action Coalition that works on creating and implementing just energy policies in schools and communities nationwide. Please visit www.climatechallenge.org to learn more and to find a group near you!

Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Schools and Where they are located across the US:

Fossil Fools Day

Fossil Fools Day has been a tradition for the last 3 years, getting youth out on the streets and into communities to stand in opposition to dirty energy, show support for climate justice, strong legislation and corporate responsibility. TCCC in Fort Berthold got involved - Read the Article page 1.
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Get Ready for Fossil Fools Day 2009!

Power Vote Campaign

Power Vote On campuses and in communities nationwide, youth are leading the way in responding to the global climate crisis. Now “Power Vote,” a national non-partisan effort spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, seeks to elevate the issue of climate change in the 2008 election by mobilizing one million young “climate voters.” To do this, the Energy Action Coalition and its more than forty partner organizations are organizing young people across the United States to pledge their vote "for clean and just energy.