The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) is an important event that brings hundreds of students from across the Southeast together for a weekend of essential skills trainings, inspiring keynote speakers, collaborative state network meetings, and movement building. Since its establishment in 2003, the SSREC has served as a platform for Southern students to build a region-wide movement to promote a clean, sustainable energy future. The Southern Energy Network (SEN) was formed from discussions and connections coming out of the 2004 SSREC, hosted at the University of North Carolina and Duke University.
The South is one of the largest contributors to the problems of dirty energy and global warming, and our politicians are some of the most resistant to boldly addressing global warming pollution and climate change. For this reason, building and strengthening the movement of Southern youth fighting for a clean energy future is some of the most important work we can be doing. And that’s where the SSREC comes in!
We’re excited to host the 6th SSREC at the University of Georgia this fall. This year, we’ll be training even more awesome young people to fight dirty energy in their communities, and to promote clean, just, sustainable solutions. We’ll be connecting hundreds of new organizers to each other, growing the youth climate movement regionally and nationally. The conference will provide hope and motivation in a region that can seem very reluctant to change, as well as provide context around the effects of climate change in the Southeast and why this work is so urgent and important.
This year’s SSREC will be October 1 – 3, 2010 in Athens, Georgia, and is co-hosted by SEN and the UGA Go Green Alliance.
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