Webcam Meeting

I met with Amy last night again, and we caught up on the stance of my letter and how to schedule a meeting. I haven't been the most active in my volunteership work this week, but I did get my letter sent in to Susan Davis. I also talked about how I had problems getting my letter uploaded to the Million Letter March website, but that is now resolved. This week, I will be preparing a brief outline of how I would run a meeting with a congressperson, and reading an article about the struggles of passing climate change legislation. It turn out another member of CCL will actually be scheduling the meeting. Also, I will be practicing some laser talks with Megan, another member of CCL on the east coast. Total: 17 hours.

Another Meeting

We discussed all the work I did this week, and planned what I would be doing this week. I will be uploading my letter to the million letter march website, scheduling an actual meeting with a government official, and practicing a laser talk in front of Meghan, another member of the organization. Total: 15 hours

Sending In My Final Letter

A week ago, I had a webcam call with Amy, and she had some suggestions to make my letter even shorter for the 150 word maximum to submit to the Union Tribune. Well, I did it, and it's now submitted. Before tonight's meeting, I will also be calling up the local office of Susan Davis to learn the protocol for scheduling a meeting with her. I won't be actually scheduling it yet, but I will be learning how to do it. After tonight's webcam meeting, I will have a total of 15 volunteership hours.

3rd Meeting

I forgot to post this right after my last webcam call with Amy. We pretty much talked about my letter to Susan Davis, and how I could revise it to make it more friendly and concise. I worked on that this week. We also briefly talked about how to schedule a meeting with a congressperson.

National Conference Call

On Saturday, October 2nd, I went to a house near UCSD for a national conference call. When I finally found the place, I was greeted by a member of CCL named Rick, but to my surprise, no Amy. It went fine regardless. We talked about music, our reasons for joining CCL, and engineering for a while, and then the call began. Bill McKibben and the woman who is running the million letter march were the guest speakers. Bill talked about climate centered events going on around the world, including one in China, where a thousand mechanics went around fixing bikes so people couldn't have the excuse that their bike didn't work. He also talked about going straight for the political reform, not expecting social reform, political reform in return. The million letter march was also talked about. For this, CCL is asking that each of its members write a letter to a Congressperson about climate change and ask 5 or more friends to write one as well. At the end of the call, chapters from around the nation pledged how many letters they would be responsible for. Rick and I practiced this month's laser talk, which describes the million letter march, and then I left. Tonight, I wrote the first draft of my letter. I now have 9 volunteership hours.