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Heating up? It's boiling!
When Dr. Eban Goodstein thought up Focus the Nation in the fall of 2006, his colleagues said, "you must be crazy!"
Then, when Focus the Nation hit the 1,000 event mark in November of 2007, they thought, "maybe he wasn't so crazy after all" and took notice.
But now, with the 1,700 Focus the Nation events just one day away, they must be scratching their heads thinking, "looks like that idea was just crazy enough to make the difference."
With the participation of IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri, 50 U.S. Senators and Congresspeople including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, thousands of local student, faculty, faith, community, business and political leaders, and lest we forget, Edward Norton, Focus the Nation will engage MILLIONS of Americans in the neccessary conversation on the steps we must take to address climate change in a just, economically viable and environmentally sound way.
And that, my friends, is going to feel great.On Focus the Nation events to heat up campuses across the U.S. posted 1 year, 10 months ago 5 Responses