Power Shift Network

Power Shift Network
Founded2004
Washington, D.C., United States
Type501(c)(3)
FocusEnvironmentalism, global warming, renewable energy, climate justice
Location
  • United States
MethodDirect action, lobbying, petition, demonstration
Key people
Eriqah Vincent, Co-Executive Director,
Saren Glenn, Co-Executive Director
Websitepowershift.org
Formerly called
Energy Action Coalition

Power Shift Network is a North American non-profit organization made up of a network of youth-led social and environmental justice organizations working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement. It runs campaigns in the United States and Canada to build grassroots power and advocate for tangible changes on climate change and social justice at local, state, national and international levels in North America. The organization changed its name from Energy Action Coalition in July 2016[1] in order to reflect its new leadership and it shift from a coalition to a network structure. The Power Shift Network's members, which include other non-profit organizations and student groups focused on environmental justice, social justice, and climate change, focus their organizing and campaigns on campuses, communities, corporate practices, and politics. The Power Shift Network is part of the Global Youth Climate Movement.[2]

The Power Shift Network was founded (as Energy Action Coalition) in June 2004 at a meeting of representatives from almost 20 environmental groups in Washington, D.C. The founding of the organization was a result of the coordination of many local and national environmental networks in a day of action on April 1, 2004, called Fossil Fools Day which advocated for reducing dependence for energy on fossil fuels, with more than 125 registered actions around the U.S.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Power Shift Network
  2. ^ "Energy Action Coalition". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  3. ^ Kim Teplitzky (October 25, 2004), "Declaring Independence from Dirty Energy." Wiretap Magazine. "WireTap Magazine - Declaring Independence from Dirty Energy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  4. ^ “The Story of Energy Action Coalition”
  5. ^ Fred Durso, Jr. "Clean Energy Goes to College." E/The Environmental Magazine. [1] Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine