President-elect Obama is encouraging everyone to take a day on, instead of a day off, on MLK day to volunteer to do something for our communities. To get involved on National Day of Service, search for an event here. “Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”– Martin Luther King, [...]

Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on UF campus on Thursday, February 5 @ 7:00 pm in the Reitz Union Room 357 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change. Please RSVP if you are [...]

There is campus-wide support for the University of Florida Renewable Energy Fee. 78 percent of students voted for it in the spring 2007 election and, after the fee has been approved at UF, we need only to get it through the Florida legislature. The Renewable Energy Fee has been endorsed by: Dedee Delongpre, UF Director [...]

Are you going to Power Shift in Washington, D.C. from Feb 27 to Mar 2? 10,000 people have signed up to gather in front of the Capitol and show support for clean, renewable energy. We’ll be taking a charter bus up to Washington and sleeping in a church all four nights. The total cost of [...]

Read today’s Alligator article about Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan’s State of the City address, where she discussed Wild Spaces, Public Places and GRU’s proposed solar feed-in tariff.