Hey Atlanta!
My first week at my placement has been very eventful and interesting. I am working in Austin at Public Citizen’s Texas Office, which advocates for consumer rights and environmental issues (www.citizen.org). There are 7 other interns and we are all assigned to a staff member to work on their specific issue area—mine is energy efficiency. Having 8 interns is part of a big growing period for this office; not long ago they only have 3 staff people, now they have 6, so we are a little cramped in our office space, which is the 3rd floor of an old house. It's nice and cozy though.
This week I started out by learning about energy efficiency—I had no idea how much I didn’t know! It’s a little bit difficult to get a grasp on the technical aspects like megawatts and demand savings, but I am working on it. I have also been researching electric co-ops, which are member-owned utility companies, to see how we can get them to improve their energy efficiency programs. I think I will also be working on some media outreach, but I haven’t started that yet.
On Thursday, I went down to San Antonio for a meeting of the anti-nuclear coalition there. The coalition is trying to prevent the city from building a nuclear plant and to improve their energy efficiency programs instead. They can save as much power as the plant would supply, without spending about $10 billion and without producing radioactive waste and all.
I won’t be working as much every week, but I wanted to get as much as possible out of the first week, and I think I did. Anyway, everyone turn off your lights when you leave a room and I hope everything is well in Georgia!
P.S. Sorry about this blog being a day late—I left my laptop in the office overnight. =(
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