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Answering the college
Focus the Nation events to heat up campuses across the U.S. |
Todd Hymas Samkara |
29 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Focus the Nation, a series of climate-change-focused educational events on over 1,000 campuses across the United States, is basically the student-centered cousin of Step It Up. And if you were one of the thousands who attended SIU (or SIU 2), you know that raising climate consciousness doesn't have to be a drab affair. It can be a colorful, creative, youth-infused party of a time. Enter Focus the Nation. Hoping to pick up where SIU left off, Focu ... |
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| Topics: campus activism, climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics) |
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From Campus: Making a power shift
Students organize summit on climate change |
Nathan Wyeth |
30 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| You know how some days you just get so wrapped up with those new Facebook apps that you barely notice when columnists in the nation's newspaper of note are talking shit about you behind your back? Earlier this month, Tom Friedman wrote: America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage ... of Generation Q [for 'Quiet']. That's what twentysomethings are for -- to light a fire under the country. But they can't email it in, and an online petition or a mou ... |
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| Topics: climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics) |
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