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 Dear friends and colleagues,

This year, we have an extraordinary opportunity to engage students directly in a critical, national conversation on climate, happening in every state.

Join us Wednesday at noon eastern on a call to learn about the Power Dialog.  Next April, on 4.4.16, we will help 10,000 young people, in every state capitol, to talk directly, face-to-face, with state officials in charge of cutting global warming pollution under the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Senior Researcher at Resources for the Future, and steering committee member of the Power Dialog, will be on the call discussing student engagement in the policy process.  We will also talk nuts and bolts of organizing a Power Dialog in your state.

The Power Dialog is not a lobbying effort. There is no position that we are advocating. Rather, it is a chance for students from hundreds of campuses nationally to hear directly about their state's efforts, and offer their ideas and comments to policy-makers.

The Power Dialog is easy. The simple model involves a two-hour, evening meeting of students from acrosseach state at a university auditorium in the state capitol. Faculty teaching related courses-in environmental studies, politics, economics, sociology or international affairs-- take their students on a field trip to their state dialog. The Power Dialog is providing teaching resources including a series of webinars to prep students for the discussions.

Power Dialogs can also happen on individual campuses: more on that on the call.

Power Dialog teams are developing in over a dozen states, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Maryland, Delaware, New York and Texas. Help empower students in your state to have a voice in the decisions so critical to their future.

Dial-in at noon eastern Wednesday:

845-746-2287          No conference code needed.

At the Paris meetings in December, President Obama will commit the US to 32% reductions by 2030. Whether those reductions materialize depends on critical decisions being made now in the states. As educators, we have a responsibility to engage our students in these decisions that will so profoundly affect their future.

Join us Wednesday to learn how your college or university, and your students, can get involved.

Thanks for the work you are doing,

 Eban