Speakers, Panelists, and Groups Represented at the Jamboree

Information on Groups Tabling at Jamboree

Alaska Rising Tide

Alaskan communities are on the front lines of both climate change and fossil fuel extraction. Alaska Rising Tide is a grassroots organization empowering people to take action against extraction as a means of confronting the root causes of climate change. Alaska Rising Tide is part of the Rising Tide North America network. Alaska Rising Tide is an all volunteer, decentralized network of groups and individuals confronting root causes of climate change in our communities.

For more on Alaska Rising Tide, visit their website at https://www.facebook.com/alaskarisingtide

Alaska Workers Association

AWA is an all volunteer, membership organization in which members works together to end poverty. We recognize that major changes need to happen in our society so that we can address the linked problems of poverty and environmental destruction.

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) is a program of Alaska Center for the Environment that inspires and trains rural and urban youth leaders to impact environmental issues by providing leadership skills training and supporting youth-led community action projects and campaigns. We are committed to a youth-led model, in which teens choose the issues AYEA works on, and teens are the leaders in all AYEA campaigns and projects. Adult mentors and staff provide essential support to help the teens learn the skills they need to successfully reach their project goals.

Each year, 15-20 AYEA teens step up to serve as our Youth Organizers for the year. These teens work closely with AYEA staff to choose the issue to focus on for our statewide campaign and come together for an intensive four-day summit in the fall, to strategize, learn, teach, and plan AYEA’s statewide campaign. This year, the Youth Organizers will continue with the second year of their climate change campaign. For more on AYEA, check out http://akcenter.org/ayea/.

Anchorage Friends Meeting

We are a Quaker community who sees the challenge of climate change as a call to conscience, recognizing a personal and collective responsibility to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable peoples now, and all our future generations, do not suffer as a consequence of our actions.

Anchorage Friends Meeting views anthropogenic (due to human activities) climate change as a symptom of a greater challenge: how to live sustainably and justly on this Earth. In our work, we approach climate change as a peace and justice concern.

For more information on Anchorage Friends Meeting, visit http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/quaker-finder/anchorage-friends-meeting.

Castle Mountain Coalition (CMC)

Formed out of the grassroots organizing efforts of community members in Chickaloon, Castle Mountain Coalition is a local group that works to promote ecological integrity, economic sustainability, and quality of life in the Matanuska Watershed. Over the past 10 years CMC has worked generate opposition to proposed coal mining in the Matanuska coal field to protect our immediate community, while preventing further exacerbation of climate change through the burning of coal. We believe coal development is incompatible with the sanctity of our homes, the purity of our air and water, and the health and safety of our families. It is wrong to sacrifice the things we value most for the short term profit of corporations. We have a moral obligation to stand opposed to coal extraction in the communities of the Matanuska Valley. 

For more on Castle Mountain Coalition, visit, http://www.castlemountain.org/.

Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL)

Politicians don’t create political will, they respond to it. CCL believes citizens who are well-trained, and with a good system of support, can positively influence the political process. CCL bases all its work on showing respect for all viewpoints, even for those who oppose us. Based on what climate scientists and economists tell us, CCL believes that Carbon Fee and Dividend is the best first step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while growing the economy.

CCL lobbies in support of their Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal through friendly relationships with federally elected representatives, with respect, appreciation and gratitude for their service. CCL members write letters to the editor and op-eds, and meet with editorial boards to gain their editorial endorsement. They also facilitate presentations and table at events to promote CCL and introduce others to their Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal. CCL supports their volunteer chapters with monthly conference calls, and supports the leaders of those chapters with weekly conference calls.

For more on CCL, check out https://citizensclimatelobby.org/about-ccl/.

Yukon Presbyterians for Earth Care

Yukon Presbyterians for Earth Care is the Alaska collective of the national, grassroots organization to support people of faith working towards "environmental wholeness with social justice." For over fifteen years, PEC has helped the church to fulfill its current environmental policies, to create new environmentally responsible policies and practices, and to equip and educate Presbyterians about earth care ministry.

Honoring this great heritage, the leaders and members have responded to the growing national awareness of global climate change with a renewed vision, a new name and a timely mission. PEC has stepped up its capacity to connect and equip the environmental movement in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through a new website, database, social networking sites and a new coordinator. For more information on Presbyterians for Earth Care, check out http://presbyearthcare.org/.

Student Conservation Association (SCA)

SCA’s mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of the environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land. Every year SCA motivates and deploys thousands of young people who care passionately about improving their natural world. They put them to work in our parks and public lands and urban green spaces to make improvements and learn conservation and sustainability practices. SCA teaches them how to plan, enact, and lead, all while making a tangible impact in conservation. 

SCA members are age 15 to young adults, high school and college students, or recent graduates interested in green careers, and from all 50 states and from all socio-economic backgrounds. SCA members protect, enhance, and restore national parks, marine sanctuaries, cultural landmarks, and urban green spaces across the United States. They serve year-round in programs lasting anywhere from two weeks to twelve months. For more on the Student Conservation Association, check out http://www.thesca.org/.