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White Center Energy Festival & Prosperity Project
Seattle, WA
September 27, 2008 08:00AM to 06:00PM
Hosted by Stacy Noland
Are you ready to Weatherize and Solarize America? To create Green Jobs that pay a family wages? To remove barriers that prevent historically disadvantaged communities from achieving prosperity?
If so, we invite you to invest 4-hours of your time and turn WORDS into ACTION! Volunteers are needed from 8am to 12pm AND 11am to 3pm.
The Moontown Foundation and its partners need 200+ volunteers to blanket the White Center Community to knock on over 7000 doors and educate residents on home energy efficiency, resource conservation…and how to SAVE SOME MONEY on their utility bills.
AS A VOLUNTEER YOU WILL…
- Give out FREE Ecobags, with compact florescent light bulbs and tips on saving energy
- Give away a FREE home energy efficiency audit (valued at $500)
- Spread the word on GREEN JOBS
- Learn how to get training to install solar panels or become an energy efficiency auditor
- Meet representatives from colleges and trade schools that provide GREEN JOB training
- Explore an Eco Village, complete with a demonstration solar roof & Green living experts
- Get a limited edition GOT GREEN t-shirt, fed, informed & inspired
- Register people to VOTE
- Jam to the sounds of DJ KUN LUV and GlobalHeat after your hard work
- Earn service learning credits
- Help build the new GREEN ECONOMY
For more information contact Stacy @ 206.201.2314 or info@moontownfoundation.org
10015 6th Ave SW
Metro bus routes 20, 22, 54, 60, 85, 113, 128, 125, 136 and 137 link White Center with Seattle and other areas. Info: 206-553-3000 Click Here For Map to White Center Heights Elementary
Attachments From Host:
Helping people protect the planet and pursue social and economic prosperity.
Volunteer Will Robinson of the Got Green Project and Seattle resident.
Seattle Vocational Institute (Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training Program) students and their instructor Bob Markholt show the demonstration solar roof that they built for the White Center Energy Festival (with panels lent by Shoreline Community Coll
Michelle Gregoire, daughter of Washington governor Christine Gregoire, with volunteers at the White Center Energy Festival in front of the demonstration solar roof.
Mirbel, 2, and Aminta, 6, with their father Hainzle Malcolm.
Mara Palmer (King County Housing Authority) and her daughter Mari Lilly, 8, Leschi Elementary School student.
Volunteers explaining the Green Jobs Now petition to a White Center resident and signing her up to a win an energy audit.
VAN'S NEW BOOK
Van Jones has released his first book, The Green Collar Economy. Check out Van's plan for solving our economic and environmental problems -- at the same time.
