On Monday a team of college students from across Massachusetts and around the world bicycled into Edgartown to engage the community to push for bold solutions to the climate crisis. The students will host the Awakening the Dreamer symposium, a workshop that will engage local community members in the fight for clean energy, on Saturday, July 11, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs Public Library.

The three components of the symposium are environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment, and the symposium will demonstrate the inter-related nature of these three aspects. The symposium also includes opportunities for participants to network with other interested members of their community.

The six students traveling town to town via bicycle are part of a group of 20 youths volunteering two months with Massachusetts Power Shift’s Mass Climate Summer to hail the urgency of the climate crisis.

They are asking citizens to demand the re-powering of America with 100 per cent clean electricity in the next decade. “It’s a win-win-win situation,” said Jeff Gang, a recent graduate of Amherst College. “We can create millions of green jobs, become independent of foreign oil, and create a clean and prosperous future for generations to come.”