Hey all, the solar trip is less than a week away and our excitement is growing everyday!
Who are we?
We are three students from Unity College in Maine who will be taking a road trip to Washington D.C. with a historic solar panel to urge President Obama to fulfill his promise of a clean energy future. We will need your help all along the journey and well after.
The Jimmy Carter solar panels on our cafeteria roof have become a regular sight for the students here. We never imagined that we would have the opportunity to take one of these panels down and bring it back to the White House so it could give the country another chance to take that road to an energy independent future.
Our campaign got started with the launch of our website and the announcement of our trip on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night. During the show, Bill McKibben called on President Obama to be expecting us next week, and to set an example for the nation by installing solar panels on the White House.
In only a matter of days, Bill McKibben will join us in loading the historic solar panel, piling into the van, and waving goodbye to our supporters as we head off on our journey.
As college students we have become very familiar with exams, but if there was ever a test that mattered for our generation and the future of life on earth, this would be it. It’s up to the youth and the youth-spirited to seize this clean energy campaign now in order to turn the tide on a climate that is already burning up our future.
We won’t succeed alone. We need your help so that this trip will make a difference.
- If you are able, please join us at the launch event at Unity College, as well as in Boston, New York City, and for the pre-delivery event in D.C. We are very excited to meet anyone who willing to help with our mission. Check out the list of road trip stop times and locations on our website.
- Wherever you are in the world: follow along, and share your voice. We’ll be live-blogging, live-twittering, and facebook-ing to let you know what’s going on. Tell Obama to Put Solar On It!—and stay tuned at putsolaron.it/road-trip
- Make a poster that says “Put Solar On It!” and hold it high on your roof, your bicycle, or your car. Send the photo to photos@putsolaron.it to be featured on the trip website.
If our education at Unity College has taught us anything, we have learned that if we want to make difference, we need a strong social movement now. That’s why after the road trip, we’re urging folks to go all-out for 10/10/10, a massive planet-wide day to take action on climate change and demand our leaders to do the same. We hope you’ll sign up your town! Check out 350.org/1010.
We’ll see you along the northeast coast, all over the web, and everywhere you can look up and see the power of the sun, still waiting for us to take full advantage of it.
Let’s get the ball rolling—and get solar back on the White House!
Amanda, Jamie, Jean, Jason, Jesse, & Bill