From Sierra Club:

As you know, we are big supporters of moving to EV's and believe strongly we need to engage young people into the process.  In fact, we are just editing a new show, shot at a high school, that profiles teams of students creating new, sustainable companies.

For now we profile a recent release from Sierra Club:

"I am impressed and wanted to share with you an opportunity to help a group of high school students from Kansas City, MO make a 2,400 mile journey from San Diego, CA to Jacksonville, FL in a prototype ultra-high-efficiency plug-in electric vehicle that they designed and built.  The group, MINDDRIVE, is an educational program for at-risk urban high school students focused on hands-on activities in an automotive design class.  After a successful trip in 2010, this year’s class is making the trip to showcase the benefits of EVs and their accomplishment of designing a fully electric really cool-looking vehicle converted from a 1977 Lotus Espirit.    

If you think you could help provide for the students a place to charge the vehicle, food, media coverage, or an audience for a presentation in or near any of the cities listed below, then please contact: Linda Buchner (linda@minddrive.org) and Jim Huntington (jhuntingt@aol.com).

Areas where group plans to stop:

6/11/12 El Centro, CA

6/12/12 Crystal Sand, AZ 

6/12/12 Phoenix, AZ

6/13/12 Tucson, AZ 

6/13/12 Willcox, AZ

6/13/12 Lordsburg, NM

6/14/12 Deming, NM 

6/14/12 El Paso, TX

6/15/12 Van Horn, TX 

6/15/12 Fort Stockton, TX

6/16/12 Ozona, TX

6/16/12 Junction, TX

6/16/12 San Antonio, TX

6/17/12 Luling, TX

6/17/12 Houston, TX

6/18/12 Beaumont, TX 

6/18/12 Lafayette, LA

6/19/12 Baton Rouge, LA 

6/19/12 Gulfport, MS

6/20/12 Mobile, AL 

6/20/12 Defuniak Springs, FL

6/21/12 Tallahassee, FL

On a separate note, you're invited to read the Sierra Club's most recent EV blog post: Los Angeles to Electrify Freight and Cut Oil."