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http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/ - Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, staffers from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) were in Oregon to assess the environmental impact that proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals will have on our region. When they got here, the youth climate movement of my home state was ...
Environment
Oregon
Global Warming
Climate Change
Yesterday morning before the Youth Clean Energy forum I awoke at 6AM and couldn’t sleep. The anticipation of our movement’s historic opportunity swirled loudly in my head. This was our chance to talk directly to the Obama administration and let them know what we think. In the dim early ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Barack Obama
United States
Global Warming
(Jon Carson was the field director for the Obama campaign and is now the chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality. He moderated the White House’s Youth Clean Energy Economy Forum that took place on December 2nd)
Dear Jon Carson,
I would like to say thank you for helping ...
Environment
Climate Change
United States
Global Warming
Is an international 350 rap battle heating up between MCs in Beijing and Berlin? Kelly just posted a blog that introduced a video from Valdivia and her Dot Dot Dash crew in Berlin as the “Official 350.org Rap Video.” And I gotta admit, it’s pretty hot, featuring bikes, ...
Environment
Global Warming
Hooo boy, please note this amazing dispatch from one of the most powerful Senators -
West Virginia Blue has posted the full copy of this important new dispatch from Senator Byrd, in which he asks important, if difficult, questions about mountaintop removal and the economies relying on the ...
Environment
Global Warming
West Virginia
Our Political Liaison and Lisa Jackson
This is a cross-post from my friend Davey Rogner, a former member of the University of Maryland student activist group UMD for Clean Energy , who wrote this on his blog The Harvest Collective . I also posted it on my blog . ...
Environment
Lisa Jackson
Energy Efficiency
Climate Change
Maryland
I went to the White House today, as one of 150 youth climate leaders invited to take part in the Clean Energy Forum .
Let me repeat that: youth activists were invited to discuss climate policy with 4 cabinet secretaries. This is not the same movement it was two years ago, and I think the ...
Environment
Climate Change
Power Shift
Energy Efficiency
We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
As I get ready to head to Copenhagen this Saturday for the international climate negotiations, I’m thrilled to see the success of The Leadership Campaign and their efforts to have Massachusetts use 100% clean ...
Environment
Climate Change
Massachusetts
Deval Patrick
Hey everyone! Take a minute to get over to Huffington Post and vote for longtime youth activist, blogger, and cyclist David Kroodsma to come to the Copenhagen Climate Conference as a Hopenhagen Ambassador. Check out his video below and vote before the contest closes on Friday!
I first ...
Environment
David Paterson
Global Warming
Huffington Post
Climate Action Network
LA’s Youth Climate Heroes are the Real Stars!
By John Bernhardt – cross posted from the ACE Blog
On November 21st, 23 high school students from the LA area gathered at the Environmental Charter High School to spend their Saturday afternoon learning how to really Raise their ...
Environment
United States
Global Warming
A friend of mine attending the Youth Clean Energy Forum tomorrow asked me to suggest some talking points (for the administration and fellow youth leaders) and pre-readings. Here’s what I wrote:
I. Any successful global climate treaty has to go beyond the traditional framework of ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Climate Change
We’ll spend over $70 Billion in Afghanistan next year, nearly $20 billion more than last year. Isn’t it time we were putting up solar panels instead of dropping bombs?
Source: New York Times.
Posted in global warming
Environment
Afghanistan
New York
Climate Change
Global Warming
Reporting for Project Survival Media in Romania.
By Andrada Farcău with images by Mihai Giurgiu .
©Mihai Giurgiu
Romania was a land of diversity. We used to have four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Now we are having two seasons. So, what can be the reason of changing? ...
Environment
Romania
Global Warming
The third sit-in at a Conservative MPs constituency office took place today in Jim Flaherty’s Whitby, Ontario office. These sit-ins are organized by groups of concerned people for climate justice , and will not end until the Conservative government takes strong action on climate change, ...
Environment
Climate Change
Canada
I have a column out today in the UMD newspaper The Diamondback about the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations, along with a call for the US to do more. It’s difficult to write about Copenhagen in only 550 words given the complexities, along with the reality that the readers don’t ...
Environment
Climate Change
United States
China
During PowerShift 2009, I was lucky enough to be able to speak these words to Representative Markey’s Select Committee on Global Warming:
“The $100,000 Clean Energy Revolving Fund I helped build at Macalester College invests in efficiency projects on campus and puts the savings ...
Environment
Green Grid
Global Warming
United States
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where dozens of activists blockaded the doors all around the building. Over 200 rallied and marched, while ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
The Avaaz aliens are baa-acck!
Since the aliens first arrived on Planet Earth to make an intergalatic intervention at the Barcelona climate meeting earlier this month, they have been roaming the Earth searching for real climate leaders.
When the Avaaz aliens heard that the Danish Prime ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
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Photos coming soon! Chicago climate activists returned to
the streets today – this time in the financial...
district in downtown Chicago – in a colorful demonstration against cap and trade, carbon offsets and other “false solutions” to climate ...
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Chicago Climate Activists target Carbon Trading for ...
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Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Department of Public Health and Environment in Protest over Coal
Group calls on the Air Quality Control Commission to deny the Cherokee coal plant’s ‘permit to pollute’
Denver, CO – This morning, approximately fifteen local citizens,
representing a diverse ...
