9.24.2007

A Greener Eph: MYCA


On Sunday four Williams students and one Mt. Greylock student attended the kick-off summit of Massachusetts Youth Climate Action, or MYCA.

I worked with five other SSC people to get this conference to happen, and it turned out to be a huge success. Instead of a conference to come share skills and get inspired from speeches, this was a conference for planning. Our 7 hour marathon meeting resulted in an amazing campaign plan and an organizational structure. We're off and rolling.

We decided on a campaign goal of passing the Global Warming Solutions act with language about Green Jobs and No New Coal. After that, we move on to bigger things.

Sasha, Adam, Adriann, Davy and I drove in a college Prius all the way there, listening to Regina Spektor. Driving home, still listening to Regina Spector, we were all bubbling from excitement from the conference. How crazy is it for 40 students to get together in a room somewhere and decide to shape the way we deal with global warming in our state.

Getting home was punctuated by a jump in the Green river, of course, before heading off to the inevitable stack of emails and homework. Ah, Williams.

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