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Give Credit Where Credit is Due!
Perhaps a mention might be in order of the youth activists that fought for the greening of their campuses. The changes on these campuses did not come easy, they came after massive, effective grassroots organizing.
The 10s of thousands of student activists working on the Campus Climate Challenge deserve some credit for their role in creating these green campuses.
Check out their work at: http://climatechallenge.org/Also, read their stories firsthand at It's Getting Hot in Here - dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
Just wait for next year! We are organizing the second year of the campus climate challenge and kicking it off with Power Shift 2007 - Rising to the Climate Challenge: http://powershift07.org/
This fall, youth from across the country will convene in Washington, DC to change the climate on global warming in the United States. Together, we will create a shift in the fight for a clean and just energy future.
Guess Where? The University of Maryland!On 15 Green Colleges and Universities posted 2 years, 2 months ago 62 Responses
Thanks a lot!
I really appreciate that!
-Richard Graves
Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
On China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse posted 2 years, 3 months ago 6 ResponsesHow can China go Green?
China cannot go green, in other words, without political change. - This is the critical sentence.
We have to look at our role in turning China into an Environmental sacrifice zone for the global economy.
Read our response to this issue:
In China, Global Environmental Injustice Kills Millions.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/26/in-china-global ...Also, our vision of how to get there!
The New Development
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/27/the-new-develop ...Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
On China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse posted 2 years, 3 months ago 6 ResponsesHey, Harry Reid can be quoted on it now!
There's not a coal-fired plant in America that's clean. They're all dirty. - Harry Reid
Harry Reid Says No New Coal
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/19/harry-reid-says ...Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
On Why does everyone assume that coal mining in Appalachia must continue? posted 2 years, 3 months ago 8 ResponsesThe Real Story is Pollution in China.
In the West, we fundamentally misunderstand the role of pollution and the environment in China. We also don't recognize the global injustice being conducted in the name of our prosperity in China. China has become the environmental sacrifice zone for the global economy. Toxic air and water are killing an estimated 710,000 to 760,000 Chinese each year.
In China, Global Environmental Injustice Kills Millions.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/26/in-china-global ...Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
On A blast across coal's bow in the Washington Post posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 ResponsesYouth Climate Movement responds
Check out our response to Al Gore's call for civil disobedience...right after our activists were arrested for protesting a bank funding coal plants.
Maybe he could post bail for our friends who were arrested for their nonviolent protest?
Did Al Gore Just Tell You Off?
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/08/16/did-al-gore-jus ...Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
On Against climate polluters posted 2 years, 3 months ago 13 ResponsesNew Grassroots Protest, New Grassroots Media
Bill McKibben is right to highlight how these climate marches, along with Step It Up and other grassroots actions, inaugurate a new phase in the fight against Global Warming.
However, we are also launching Grassroots new media to tell our story...without the false balance of traditional media or the passiveness of press releases. We are telling our story through innovative open-source media. Like It's Getting Hot in Here - dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement. The marchers are using new media to tell their stories as well, at the Climate Summer Blog. On Climate marches kick off in New Hampshire and Iowa posted 2 years, 4 months ago 1 Response
Youth have taken a lead on fighting Global Warming
Michael,
Your parties may have been full of Boomers and we welcome you to the fight, but youth have been organizing on this issue en masse for years. Youth Climate Activists have taken the lead in kickstarting the clean energy revolution, organizing on over 900 campuses across the country and serving as the shocktroops to pass state clean energy legislation and local, city, and state ordinances. We have sent delegations to the Kyoto Protocol meetings, served as the conscience of the nation on this issue, and sacrificed our free time during college to educate our peers and communities.
MoveOn organizes a demographic that is older, boomer, educated, and richer. We need you desperately in this fight, so I am not critisizing you and I am happy that you went to the MoveOn party. A lot of young people are not that comfortable going to a party with people their parent's age. I went to a MoveOn party in DC, with over around a 180 young people in Washington DC, at a club MCCCXXIII. It rocked!
If you want to see all the amazing things young people are doing across the country and world, check out It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement We would welcome you there!
On Where were younger people at Live Earth house parties? posted 2 years, 4 months ago 19 ResponsesMinnesota goes Green - Don'tcha Know?
Well, before you move to Minnesota...you should go meet some of the people who are making change. I don't think there is a more engaged bunch of students than in Minnesota. People point to California and Vermont, but change doesn't just come from the coasts. Read about them here!
Does Minnesota Know How to Bring it? You Betcha!Check out dispatches from the youth climate movement: http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/ On Who knew the stoic people of Minnesota were so advanced? posted 2 years, 6 months ago 13 Responses
Pathetic, simply Pathetic.
I just have to say, I have never heard such a pathetic, wussy approach to climate change. I mean, I know his music is weak...but 'light green'???!!! Hell, this isn't green, it's feel-good consumerism where you drive your SUV, bring a canvas bag and feel good about yourself. I mean lifestyle changes are only a small part of the community and legislative action that is necessary. This is actually not a step forward, but rather two steps backward. Instead of calling for the vision and leadership to make a crisis into an opportunity to build a better world, people will feel satisfied because they sorted their newspaper from their empty tuna cans. This type of celebrity 'endorsement' hurts us more than it helps.On From pop star John Mayer posted 2 years, 7 months ago 31 Responses