Powershift 2011

This Thursday I am headed off to Washington D.C. to attend Powershift 2011. Powershift's focus is to bring young leaders together to organize and educated them on environmental issues and how to bring that environmental leadership back to their campuses, communities and states.

A quick break down of what I will be doing while I'm gone:

Thursday:
Evening drive drive drive to DC
Friday:
1:00pm-2:00pm Orientation
2:00pm-5:30pm Generation Wake Up (music games and things)
6:00pm-9:00pm Key Note Speakers (Al Gore and Van Jones)
9:00pm-12:00am Movies about clean energy
Saturday:
9:00am-1:00pm Movement Building Sessions (we meet regionally to talk about making change)
1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch in the City (pay for your own)
2:15pm-3:15pm Session 1
3:30pm-4:30pm Session 2
4:45pm-5:45pm Session 3
6:00pm-7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm-11:00pm Concert
Sunday:
9:00am-1:00pm Movement Building Sessions
1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch in the City (pay for your own)
2:00pm-3:30pm State Break out
3:30pm-6:30pm Nonviolent direct action training
8:00pm-10:00pm Art/Music/Movies


Mostly I am excited to:
1. Be in D.C.
2. Go to the sessions on Saturday, there are some good ones
3. Non-violence direct action training brought to you by Greenpeace... awesome

Cortney and I plan on taking tons of photos and an abundance of videos which I will use to make these posts more entertaining.

Quest for Peace USA edition here I come!

http://www.powershift2011.org/ <-- powershift 2011 website