About Us
The Southern Energy Network was formed after the first SSREC in 2004 to continue the momentum year-round.
SEN facilitates state networks, trains student leaders, and builds the grassroots student movement in the South for a clean energy future. For example...
Our Georgia branch, Georgia Youth for Energy Solutions (GA YES), is part of a state-wide coalition to defeat three proposed coal-fired power plants that will further pollute Georgia's air, consume critical water supplies in a drought-prone state, and place the burden of burning coal for power on rural communities while shipping the power to affluent suburbs of Atlanta.
Florida Youth for Environmental Sustainability (FL YES), our Florida branch, has worked successfully to bring the Student Green Energy Fund to campuses across the state, while fighting new offshore oil drilling and pushing for clean energy projects in the Sunshine State.
SEN works with students and young people across the South to support campus campaign work on the most critical fights against dirty energy and in support of clean energy.
Mission
SEN works to combat climate change, advance renewable energy, and promote a smart, just energy economy by building a diverse movement of young people in the Southeast. We organize grassroots campaigns and provide education and training to empower new leaders and cultivate regional progress.
Values
While striving in its daily practices to meet the formidable challenges laid out before it, the Southern Energy Network vows to act under a set of values which emphasize a global perspective, holistic sustainability, inclusiveness, awareness-raising through education, community empowerment, youth leadership development, and which deems the interests of environmental and humanitarian justice priority over economic costs.
Vision
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The Southern Energy Network envisions a future that is:
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The Southeast is plagued by dirty energy. Dirty coal plants pollute our communities and climate, while...
