Dirty to Clean Energy Transition.

The Shale Gas Rush: Issues, Impacts, and Action , Nadia Stenizor, Earthworks Oil & Gas Accountability Project 

• First, an overview of what natural gas development using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) means for communities, landowners, air and water quality, and public health. The gas rush underway across the Marcellus Shale region–including Virginia–is closely tied to the energy choices before us, and highlights the importance of citizen awareness and action.

Special Panel on the Surry Coal Plant, CCAN, Appalachian Voices, Betsy Shepard (9:30AM; 40 mins)

Social Sustainability.

Free Yoga, Chanel and Holly, 9-10 AM, Drillfield

• The way you approach your mat is often then way you approach events in your life.

How to start your own chapter of New Forest Earth, Andon Zebal, New Forest Earth 

• New Forest Earth helps indigenous cooperatives preserve their cultures and their forests by providing a source of income that requires that they sacrifice neither. In this workshop, you’ll learn how YOU can be the connection between an amazon hunter gatherer tribe and your college campus.

Leadership & Movement Building.

Self Actualization and Professionalism, Jackie Pontious, NRCERT

• Usually by the time we are finishing our college degrees and figuring out our next steps we start are asking ourselves, “What is my purpose? What do I want to do with my life?” This workshop will provide you with tools to take an inventory of yourself, your passions and your skills and translate those qualities in to tools to help identify and pursue your career as a young professional. This workshop will challenge you to take those questions a step further and ask yourself, “Why am I here and how do I get paid to do it?”

Canvassing for fundraising and support on an issue, Ryan Bowen

Anti-Oppression-Power, Privilege and Who makes the rules, Bill Price, Sierra Club (Environmental Justice)

• How do you analyze where you are personally and organizationaly with anti-oppression work. How do you analyze how power and privelege plays out in your life and work. How do you become active anti-oppresion advocates in the organizations/schools you are involved with.