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John McCain Stumps on Climate from Stumptown, Oregon via It's Getting Hot In Here May 13th, 2008 at 08:48

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Billy Parish Tells Congress “This Young Generation is Ready to Carry Out a Historic Power Shift” via It's Getting Hot In Here November 23rd, 2007 at 23:37

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Court Rejects Weak Fuel Economy Regulations, We Want More! via It's Getting Hot In Here November 17th, 2007 at 00:47

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NWF Campaign Targets “Final 50″ House Lawmakers to Sponsor Global Warming Bills via It's Getting Hot In Here November 14th, 2007 at 22:11

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“Young Activists are Shifting the Power” Says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi via It's Getting Hot In Here November 14th, 2007 at 21:16

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Watch Out for the Echo-Boom: Why Politicians Had Better Start Paying Attention to the Millennial Generation via It's Getting Hot In Here October 24th, 2007 at 22:46

80 million teens and twenty-somethings are ready to make their mark on American politics. Is the growing youth climate movement - now poised to explode off campuses and into the nation’s capitol for Power Shift 2007, the first national youth climate summit - the vanguard of a new progressive, pro-environment youth political movement? By 2010, another 17.3 million young Americans will come of age, swelling the already sizable ranks of voting-age “Millennials” – those teens and twenty-somethings coming to age in the early years of the 21st century. At 80 million strong, the Millennial generation outnumbers even the Baby Boomers by 3 million and represents the single-largest demographic age group in electoral politics, according to a recent Mother Jones article...

Generation Anything-But-Quiet: Just Wait for the Noise at Power Shift 2007! via It's Getting Hot In Here October 23rd, 2007 at 02:31

The Youth Climate Movement is poised to explode off of campuses and into our nation’s capitol for PowerShift 2007, November 2nd-5th. Thomas Friedman, the popular New York Times columnist, recently labeled teens and twenty-somethings coming to age in the early years of the 21st century the “Quiet Generation.” Accusing today’s young people of being “too quiet, too online for [their] own good, and for the country’s own good,” Friedman went on to say that today’s students and youth are “so much less radical and politically engaged than they need to be.” (See “‘Generation Q’ - the Quiet Americans,” New York Times, Oct. 10th, 2007) Well, in two weeks, Mr. Friedman – and the rest of the nation – will hear what this young generation really sounds like,...