MAKE A DIFFERENCE – VOLUNTEER!
All hands on deck! Being an active Boston CAN volunteer can be fun, social, creative, and empowering. Boston CAN is what you make it: 99.9% of our activity is done by volunteers.
Here are some of the basic campaigns we’ve been working on. Let us know how you’d like to plug in and any special skills you can add to the mix.
Low Carbon Living: supporting home energy conservation groups in neighborhoods throughout Boston. Groups are active now in Dorchester, Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain. You can become a Low Carbon Living leader in just four meetings, usually held on weekends or evenings. For more information on Low Carbon Living, see the MCAN Low Carbon Living pages.
Green Jobs coalition: connecting climate action with job creation for Boston residents. We need researchers and organizers for short-term projects, and campaign planners and folks who can attend daytime coalition meetings for longer commitments. For more on green jobs, see http://massclu.org/boston_green_justice.
350 campaign: building popular acceptance for the goal of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the framing principle of the international climate treaty being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Accords – to be signed in Dec. 2009. This is a great committee for creative folks and those with marketing and communications skills. For more on this, see http://www.350.org/4/.
Membership development, fundraising, and communications: engaging new people in climate activism through house parties and public events, and facilitating communication through email and this website. If you’ve got skills like event planning, bookkeeping, organizational development, writing, or web design, this is a committee that could use your help, either for a couple of weeks or longer!
Contact us!
call: 617-278-1885
email: bostonclimateaction[at]gmail.com
or write to: BCAN, PO Box 300984, Boston, MA 02130
Many thanks to Lisa Chase of Lucky Fish Communications for volunteering to train BostonCAN members in WordPress blogging!
