Safe Energy Communication
Council
Safe Energy Communication
Council
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This is a proposal to create a national coalition of
online safe energy (anti-nuclear) groups! The Safe Energy Communications Council was a movement resource. It is no longer active. Many groups are already working informally together to help counter the nuclear industry agenda. Yet, its time that these groups create a united front against the socalled nuke 2.0 renaissance. This is a model webpage! |
| International call for an online coalition:
We need to change the appearance of disunity within the the anti-nuclear community! We need a coalition website that doesn't tie any group down to something they're uncomfortable with. We need the latest web 2.0 services that enhance our ability to work online as well as support our offline organizing needs. We want a community where individuals can go to get support and feel part of a larger community! We want action from groups who are claiming to be our leaders yet don't seem to see the urgent need of creating a unified front! We need a focal point where we can come together; Stopping nuclear proliferation of weapons and power is critical for a sane future!
Many groups have been slow to adapt to the new Web 2.0 online resources. Paying several thousand dollars or learning how to design and build a new website is a lot more complex than it used to be. Yet, these new designs are exactly what young people expect to see and are attracted to, as well as a key to bringing them onboard this issue! There are now many online examples of web 2.0 resources, with the most important being the blog within a blog structure where any group or person can have their own home page. There are many popular versions of this like, Myspace, Twitter, or Facebook, but one of the most innovative design sites that is due to come out with a new set of sophisticated addon services is NING! Here is the link to the NING Picken's Plan as a good example. Just as Al Gore put together his Repowering America blog within a blog coalition, we need the same kind of cutting edge project. In fact, we all should be calling for a grand coalition of groups that bring all the energy issues we face, from transportation/cars, peak oil, climate change, coal, renewables and nuclear, and make it international in scope! Our German brothers and sisters created Die Grunen 30 years ago and sought to bring all of the energy and ecology issues together, we need to do the same here. But this is the USA not Germany. We don't have a parliamentary system that would ever allow a Green politician to show their face in DC. But, unlike 30 years ago we have the potential of inspiring an online community if done right. Today, we have many visions like the Picken's Plan, Apollo Alliance, Gore's Repowering America or Lester Brown's Plan B. Similarly we see a perceived unwillingness of environmental groups to come together to support a unified front on any of the growing energy and environmental issues publicly! There has been little done to try and unite these ideas into some form of larger alliance. If we don't do something like this soon, opposing nuclear power won't have a whole lot of meaning if much of the Eastern Seaboard is under water and western civilization is heading back to the stone age due to resource depletion issues. We have our work cut out for us if we are to make it through the next decade. It should be our number one priority to break the media ceiling on this issue and begin a process of bringing people together on our energy future. The anti-nuclear movement of thirty years ago took center stage in calling for a renewable energy future, as Amory Lovins would dub it the Soft Energy Path. Today, we should assert our historic roll in moving this energy paradigm shift onto the national and international community. There shouldn't be a single anti-nuclear website in this country or the world that doesn't speak to this fact and call for the media tactics against us and the role we once played and should rightfully assert once again. Let's shed some light on the Dark Age of Energy and how it has come to nearly destroy life as we know it. The internet has created a whole new organizing challenge for environmentalists. Every one of us should have read the "Death of Environmentalism" and the dramatic points this seminal work makes! And not just about the climate change issue. Here's the core of the problem. Both the Picken's Plan and Gore's Repowering America campaigns are approaching membership sizes as big as the old environmental groups. Environmental groups have gotten themselves trapped into a dance with Washington DC politics and need to be challenged to look outside the box. It should be this community that of all people have seen what has been coming. Just like what is happening to our country's collapsing newspaper industry, people have shifted their attention and interests online for community, and information. Anybody remember ABC's Nightline national townhall forum on healthcare in 1992? It ignited the country when doctors got up and spoke of our broken health care system. Nothing new right. Where the hell is the push to do a similar townhall forum on energy and I mean a real one that isn't locked down by monied politicians or the corporate media. Every environmentalist in this country should be calling for the Senate and Congress to stop their back room lobbying game that is dooming this country into the same old, same old on every major single energy issue in this country. Its as if the very groups that once had the vision to call for Earth Day have been trapped into being just another lobbying group in DC. We've all been warned folks. We only have a couple years to pull this off, and I'm not talking about the republicans taking back power. 2nd draft! Suggested input appreciated |
The above list is not exhaustive nor does it represent any current coalition of groups. |
Friends of the Earth 
Phycisians for Social
Responsibility
World Information Service
on Energy
Aliance for Nuclear Accountability
Musicians United for
Safe Energy
Nuclear Information Resource Service
Beyond Nuclear
Union of Concerned Scientists 
Public Citizen's Critical Mass Project
Rocky
Mountain Institute 
Institute
for Energy an Environmental Research
Committee to Bridge the Gap
Blue
Ridgen Environmental Defense Leauge
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility 