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Welcome to Volunteer Central for our Virginia Clean Energy Campaign!

 

This site is designed as a resource for our volunteers working to build a Virginia Clean Energy Future.  Here you will find sample and published letters to the editor, lists of big public events to canvass, links to our fact sheets, and much more.  Explore all you want! You're bound to be inspired and matched with the best volunteer job possible!  It all starts here!

 

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Check out what our Sierra Club volunteers have been up to lately.  Then click here to find that volunteer job that works for you!

December:

Nancy Strumm pens Dominion backs coal-powered cars in the Virginian-Pilot

Seth Heald pens Ineffective gift in the Virginian-Pilot

Bill Fleming pens Dominion rules in the Virginian-Pilot

November:

Fifty volunteers Rally for Renewables at Dominion HQ and deliver 2,500 clean energy petitions to state regulators demanding that Dominion put renewables into their long-range plan

 

Richard Good, Solar Services pens Don't extend monopoly to the sun in the Virginian-Pilot
Jim Jacobs pens Dominion should reduce fee in the Virginian-Pilot

Jim Melton pens We need to shift from coal to renewables in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Ivy Main pens Squelching sun power in the Virginian-Pilot
Dottie Holtz pens Dominion's sunshine tax in the Virginian-Pilot

Over a dozen volunteers rally in Northern Virginia against Dominion's punitive stand-by charges

James S. Phillips-Farley pens Yorktown in Daily Press.

David Stanford pens Old and new Dominion in the Virginian-Pilot.

Mary Picardi tabled with our offshore wind materials at Lynnhaven River NOW Fall Festival.

October:

Ivy Main gives Offshore Wind Roadshow presentation at Temple Rodef Shalom.

Daniel Walfield pens Pursue Renewables in the Alexandria Gazette.

Seth Heald pens Let's start talking about renewables in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Tyla Matteson, Eva Winters, Shelly Simonds man an offshore wind table at NASA Langley Energy Awareness Expo.

September:

Susan Stillman presents our Offshore Wind Road Show to group at Unitarian church in Burke.

Numerous Sierra Club volunteers participate in Moving Planet events throughout Virginia.

Shelly Simonds and Patricia VonOhlen staff Sierra Club table at Newport News GoGreen Expo.

Dozens of volunteers agree to put our VA4Wind bumper stickers on their cars.

Ivy Main, Linda Burkfiel, and others attend Alexandria kick-off of our Dominion/SCC campaign.

Susan Priddy pens Look offshore, a letter to the editor published in the Virginian-Pilot.

Eighteen sign up as volunteers for our Virginia Clean Energy Campaign.

Laurie Wagner, Fran Adams and Kristina Saltzman help organize activities at Sierra Club Family Picnic in VA Beach.

Joe Cooks speaks out to Dominion at Sierra Club press conference in Norfolk.

Here's some immediate volunteer jobs.  Email Eileen if you can help out!

Thurs., Jan. 19, 2012 - We need volunteers to help with our 2nd annual Clean Energy Business Lobby Day in Richmond. 

Thurs., Dec. 15, 2011 - Give a two-minute "elevator speech" on offshore wind at Virginia Beach Green Drinks, 6pm at Croc's. 

Check out our human wind turbines!

 

Virginia Beach's Gary Medlin says "Come on, Dominion. Let's get this thing blowing". Click here to see what human wind turbine we could feature next!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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