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Out With the Red Pen, in With the Green House passes bill to green up schools		05 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 05 Jun 2008 The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would put more than $20 billion over the next five years toward improving energy efficiency in schools. Democrats say the modestly named 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act would save school districts billions in energy costs. In addition, said Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) ...
Topics: education, energy efficiency, legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Climate and service Obama's commencement speech calls for service to the country, planet on climate front	Kate Sheppard	27 May 2008	Gristmill
David beat me to a post on Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan on Sunday. The part about climate change and clean energy was good, but what I found most encouraging was at the beginning, when climate change was cited, along with hunger, war, and economic strife, as an area where our personal lives and the life of the nation should be aligned: [Y]ou are about to enter a world that makes it easy to get caught up in the notion that there are actually two dif ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, education, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Call to service Obama calls for clean energy activists in commencement speech	David Roberts	27 May 2008	Gristmill
From Barack Obama's commencement speech at Wesleyan University, 25 May 2008 (he was standing in for Ted Kennedy): At a time when our ice caps are melting and our oceans are rising, we need you to help lead a green revolution. We still have time to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change if we get serious about investing in renewable sources of energy, and if we get a generation of volunteers to work on renewable energy projects, and teach folks about ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate change mitigation, education, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Undriving Miss Daisy Focus the Nation events aim for interactivity, accountability	Sarah van Schagen	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This week, college campuses across the country held events for Focus the Nation, a major education and action campaign around climate change. To see what it was all about, I headed to Seattle's University of Washington campus to find out if the students behind Focus the Nation could teach me a thing or two. The event was originally billed as a teach-in, and I imagined students walking out of class protest-style or professors stopping their lectures mid-algorithm ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, ecological footprint, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

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)

We don't need no thought control Schools should be talking about climate change solutions	Nathan Wyeth	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
At some point in the 1980s or 1990s, environmental issues became hopelessly and depressingly politicized. By 'politicized,' I mean it stopped being acceptable to talk about environmental issues in, for instance, a high-school setting, in the same way that evolution was made into a controversial subject to talk about in many school settings. I'm not sure when I would pinpoint that this politicization really sunk in, but I'd be interested in what those who were around at ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, climate change mitigation, education, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Focus the Nation, save the planet -- now! Eban Goodstein invites you to join in the largest climate teach-in ever	Guest author	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Eban Goodstein. Goodstein is a professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., and director of Focus the Nation. ----- 'If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we will do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.' -- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change If these words don't get you off your butt ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, education, 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)

What's Up, Doc? U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 03 Oct 2007 A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressiona ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, education, England, litigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Dimmockery British citizen sues government over distribution of climate-change film to schools		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:09 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In July, a judge ruled that the British government's decision to send Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary to 3,500 English secondary schools did not constitute political indoctrination of children. British citizen and fun-name owner Stewart Dimmock disagrees, and is suing his government to quash the dastardly distribution. Dimmock claims the "irredeemable&quo ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, dimwittery, education, litigation, news, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Grist gets results	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
When I interviewed Richard Louv -- author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder -- back in 2006, he jokingly said, "If we were really interested in education reform we'd have a 'No Child Left Inside' movement." Well lookee here: John Sarbanes (D-Md.) has just introduced the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007. (via GreenOptions)
Topics: education, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Left and Fright Is there a place for fear in environmentalism?		29 Aug 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: education, politics (all these topics)

School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline		09 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline What happens if you make funding for rural schools and roads dependent on revenues from a declining resource industry? What's that you say? Nobody would be stupid enough to do that? Ha ha. Readers, meet the federal government. A federal program that had tied rural funding to logging revenue led, as logging revenues ...
Topics: education, logging, news, politics (all these topics)

Integrate Expectations An interview with integration advocate Sheryll Cashin	Jon Christensen	21 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Space is the place where race, poverty, and the environment get sorted out, for better or worse. And the spaces where we live, work, learn, and play are the places where integration succeeds or fails, argues Sheryll Cashin. The Georgetown University law professor wrote 2004's The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, one of the most important and p ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, heroes, interview, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Don't Think of the Environment Enviros recruit Lakoff for reframing project, but concerns mount that he might leave them in the lurch	Amanda Griscom Little	29 Mar 2005	Muckraker
George Lakoff may be the new darling of the Democratic Party, but how sweet is he on the environmental movement? George Lakoff. Photo: Bonnie Azab Powell, U.C. Berkeley. A onetime adviser to Howard Dean, who hails him as "one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement," Lakoff is author of ...
Topics: education, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Sze Matters Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers readers' questions		19 Nov 2004	InterActivist
Julie Sze, professor in American Studies at U.C.-Davis Where do you see the environmental-justice movement heading in the future?�� -- Max Weintraub, Oakland, Calif. Max, Max, Max! Max Weintraub is a friend and colleague of mine, who has founded an excellent organization called Environmental Justice and Health Union. This question is huge, and many actors will be involved in answering it: commun ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Say, Can You Sze? Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers Grist's questions		15 Nov 2004	InterActivist
What work do you do? I'm an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of California at Davis. How does it relate to the environment? My research and teaching interests are in environmental justice, race and science, the politics of the urban environment, health and risk, social movements, and community activism. What do you really do, on a day-to-day basis? I do a combina ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

James Gustave Speth, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies A veteran enviro leader answers readers' questions		05 Mar 2004	InterActivist
James Gustave Speth, dean of Yale's environment school. What should be the role of academics in supporting environmental causes and policies? Do you think that just doing the research is enough, or should they advocate from their conscience? �� -- Roger Smith, West Hartford, Conn. Scientists have got to become more outspoken. Today's issues demand leadership fr ...
Topics: education, heroes, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

James Gustave Speth, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies A veteran enviro leader answers Grist's questions		01 Mar 2004	InterActivist
What organization are you affiliated with? What does it do? I'm the dean at the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The school is working to become "a truly global school of the environment." We have around 235 students in our professional master's degree programs in environmental management, forestry, and environmental scien ...
Topics: education, heroes, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

A Few of Your Favorite Things The Grist Inbox Is Brimming With Opinions on Biodiesel, Urinals, More		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, energy, green living, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Freedom Riders		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, politics (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

I Scream!		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, politics (all these topics)

Science Fry Day		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Science Fry Day A $10 million annual fellowship program that provides money to graduate students in environmental science, policy, and engineering has been eliminated by the Bush administration, officials announced late last week. The fellowships, which were part of the U.S. EPA's Science to Achieve Results program, were the only federal monies specifically earmarked to fund environmental studies students. Prior to being axed, ...
Topics: education, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Year of Living Dangerously		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: climate, education, politics (all these topics)

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