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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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 ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Gore's moral obligation Why Al Gore isn't running for president	Guest author	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Mark Hertsgaard, a fellow of The Nation Institute and author of five books that have been translated into 16 languages. His next book is called Living Through the Storm: Surviving Our Future Under Global Warming. ----- Photo: Severin Nowacki As Hillary, Obama, and Edwards continue to slug it out in the early primary states, one name is conspicuously absent among the Democratic candidates to become the next president ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, elections, energy, grassroots activism, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Let the games begin Ragtag youth and ABEC face off in South Carolina	Youth Movement	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto On the eve of the South Carolina Democratic primary, some battles are being fought on stage, and others in the parking lot. This primary season, leading up to arguably the most important presidential election in recent history, has been a circus. Even outside the candidate events, voters waiting in line to cheer Huckabee or Obama might see confederate-flag-jacket-donning Ron Paul supporters espouse southern pride, orange-shirted vol ...
Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, grassroots activism, politics, presidential race 08, South Carolina (all these topics)

Damage control The widening war between activists and coal	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
According to AP, at least 48 coal plants are being contested in 29 states: From lawsuits and administrative appeals against the companies, to lobbying pressure on federal and state regulators, the coordinated offensive against coal is emerging as a pivotal front in the debate over global warming. Music to my ears. Naturally, the industry forecasts an apocalyptic future where ponies eat puppies and rainbows cry tears of blood: Industry representatives say th ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

The youth are back and badder than ever The real story at Bali	Youth Movement	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In 2005, at the U.N.'s Montreal Climate Negotiations, a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference, desperate to make sure that the world heard their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for people involved in the youth climate movement, and many date its launch to that time. In a conference notable for acronyms and obscure policy jargon, the youth activism was like a breath of fresh air. While delegates bemoaned th ...
Topics: Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Videos from PowerShift	David Roberts	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The PowerShift youth climate conference, which has been going on in D.C. all weekend, is, from all reports, kicking ass. Our own Brian Beutler is there and will be writing a report shortly. For now, the best place to read about the ongoing events is the blog Its Getting Hot In Here. Here are some cool videos:
Topics: climate, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Citizens Lead for Energy Action Now CLEAN calls for action on energy policy	Joseph Romm	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Well, they dropped a bundle to get a quarter-page 'Clean Power' ad in the Washington Post (page A21 today) so the least I can do is give them a shout out here. CLEAN is a 'clean power and coalfield state grassroots organization' circulating a comprehensive national 'call to action' on energy policy that includes: a five-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants increased investments and tax credits for stepped-up renewable energy production greater empha ...
Topics: climate, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

If you'd like to see a good energy bill this year ... Take action on the energy bill	Joseph Romm	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... go here and sign the petition. As we've seen, the bill is hanging by thread with a threatened presidential veto and partisan squabbling in the Senate. Still, if Bush is going to threaten a veto, best to actually make him do so, and force the key issues, fuel economy standards and a renewable portfolio standard, into the public eye and hopefully the presidential campaign. This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American P ...
Topics: climate, energy, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Capping carbon: Is nothing better than something? On whether to advocate weaker climate change bills	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today? -- Nancy Gibbs, TIME In Greenland today, the ice is thawing at a pace that is alarming climate scientists. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., Congress remains frozen on the issue of carbon pricing. And that may be a good thing. Carbon pricing, as most r ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

YearlyKos: Step It Up 2 The next round of McKibben's campaign	David Roberts	04 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I forgot some of the coolest (and breaking) news! At my panel earlier today, Bill McKibben "pre-announced" something exciting: On Nov. 3, a year before the presidential election, he will be organizing Step It Up 2: Revenge of the Nerds. OK, I made up the title, but not the news. At the first Step It Up, McKibben's Army asked that people gather in places likely to be affected by climate change. For Step It Up 2, people will be gathering in places that comme ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Global warming and direct action To act not to act	Jon Rynn	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I regularly receive a letter from Ted Glick, the coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council, who recently was arrested for hanging a banner on the NOAA building to protest their mishandling of climate information. He has joined with others in calling for a fast on September 4th: We are calling on thousands of Americans to voluntarily give up food for one day on September 4th, 2007. Other participants will fast even longer beginning on that date, some for weeks. Ou ...
Topics: climate, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

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