Voice Your Opinion at the Federal Level

Join the Virtual March to Stop Global Warming!

Visit www.stopglobalwarming.org and add your name to the list of 450,000+ people who wish to join the fight against global warming! The site has latest headlines and other information to help you get the word out to others about global warming.

 

Let Others Hear Your Thoughts at the State Level

Speak out on Global Warming

Find contact information for your state senator here.

Read up on current state legislation regarding energy and environmental issues on the Alaska Conservation Voters' website.

 

Be Heard at the Local Level

Urge your mayor to adopt the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

The mayors that join this agreement pledge to attempt to follow the Kyoto Protocol's emissions reductions goal in their own community. They also agree to urge their congressmen and senators to ratify the Kyoto protocol on a national level and to pass legislation that would create an emissions cap-and-trade program in the United States.

  • Mayors from Anchorage, Juneau, North Pole, and Shishmaref have already signed on to the agreement. Urge other Alaskan mayors to follow suit.
  • To help your mayor implement the terms of this agreement, urge them to work with ICLEI on emission reductions. ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) aids local communities in achieving sustainability through a number of programs.
  • View a sample letter to Alaska Mayors here.
  • View a sample letter to Non-Alaskan Mayors here.

  

Tell Your Utilities How You Want Things to Be Run

Urge your utility to adopt a net metering policy

A net metering policy allows residents who have their own renewable energy systems, such as solar or wind, to sell back unused energy to their utility. Golden Valley Electic Association has already adopted a net metering program called “SNAP.” Urge your companies to follow this standard and adopt net metering policy.

Urge your utility to use renewable energy

Alaska Energy Authority has created a "Renewable Energy Atlas" for Alaska. It is available online here for download. You can also contact REAP at 929-7770 for free print copies. This atlas shows potential energy resources all over Alaska. See what potential resources are in your area and urge your utility to pursue development of them. Learn how much of your energy comes from renewables by using our carbon calculator.

 

Youth: Get Involved

Join or form a local chapter of AYEA!

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) is a high school leadership program of the National Wildlife Federation that empowers teens to impact environmental issues through skills training, community action projects, and civic engagement opportunities. Six teenagers founded AYEA in 1998; today over 1,000 youth from over 25 communities have participated in the program.

AYEA has six regional chapters in Yakutat, Sitka/Mt. Edgecumbe, Anchorage, Homer, Fairbanks, and Juneau. Teens can form chapters with the support of program staff. AYEA teens have implemented successful projects addressing pesticides and toxics, subsistence, recycling and waste reduction, air quality, and most recently, global warming.

For more information email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 907-339-3907.

Meetings:

  • Anchorage AYEA meetings are held every other Wednesday from 5-6:30pm at the Alaska Center for the Environment, 807 G Street, Suite 100, Anchorage. Call 339-3907 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   for exact dates.
  • To learn about AYEA meetings within your community or to start a local chapter please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or 339-3907.
  • Read AYEA's event blog here!
  • AYEA's website is now available at http://www.ayea.org.

Participate in the Campus Climate Challenge at your high school or college!

"The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from our high schools and colleges down to zero, and leading our society to a clean energy future." -www.climatechallenge.org.

The Campus Climate Challenge has teamed up with MTV for the "Break the Addiction Challenge," which breaks down the Campus Climate Challenge into simple steps and offers prizes for campuses who achieve these steps. Learn more about the Campus Climate Challenge and the Break the Addiction Challenge at www.climatechallenge.org.

 
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