
The Active Students for a Healthy Environment organization recently announced a day of action that will occur December 1 in Asheville's Pritchard Park to promote clean energy in North Carolina.
The event will follow a speech that will be given by environmentalist Bill McKibben at the University of North Carolina-Asheville on the day prior to the planned rally.
City Council member Cecil Bothwell and the Sierra Club's Ken Brame will both speak at the rally, which is aimed at directing attention towards the significant potential of green energy resources in North Carolina, such as offshore wind energy.
Organizers of the event are aiming to win a commitment from Bank of America to begin funding clean energy sources, as opposed to the estimated $3.9 billion the company invested in the coal industry in 2010.
The day of action will be sponsored by environmental groups from the North Carolina area, such as the Rainforest Action Network, Occupy Asheville's Meet Talk Act Affinity Group and other individuals who are advocates for clean energy in the state.
Students also organized a rally in Asheville in November, at which they advocated for clean energy to be used more in the state and protested plans to build a controversial oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

