Canada’s hot ticket for Bonn, and the new spirit of Canadian leadership via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Fight Against Coal Moves West: Five Activists Temporarily Halt Leasing of Montana Coal Tracts via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Activists Disrupt Canadian Business Conference in DC, Says “No Tar Sands” via It's Getting Hot In Here
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“Build Build” Our Clean Energy Future via It's Getting Hot In Here
(Sent today from Al Gore and our friends at the We Campaign)
We need you to call your members of Congress NOW to demand new, clean energy. Will you make a call?
Call your member of Congress today!
This week Congress will consider energy legislation. Of course, the oil industry is pushing its “drill, drill” slogan with all its might - and some are hoping to use this for political advantage.
Meanwhile, tax credits for investments in renewables have not been extended, and the growing renewables business that just made America the largest producer of wind power in the world, is on the verge of shutting down huge planned projects all over the country.
Billions in private investment, thousands of megawatts of new, clean energy, and more than 100,000 new jobs expected for 2009 will... Bush Administration Proposes $10 Billion Christmas Present From Joe Taxpayer to Big Oil via It's Getting Hot In Here
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: EPA Hides Behind Weakened Energy Bill to Deny California Tailpipe Standard Waiver via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Yuletide Gifts from Washington D.C.: Reflections on a Frustrating Week of Federal Energy, Climate Politics via It's Getting Hot In Here
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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
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Our Urgent Opportunity: Fighting for a Sustainable, Just, and Prosperous Future via It's Getting Hot In Here
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“Young Activists are Shifting the Power” Says Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi via It's Getting Hot In Here
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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
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
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,...
Attention Nordhaus and Schellenberger: Time to Call A Cease-Fire! via It's Getting Hot In Here
In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger released their provocative and much-discussed essay, “The Death of Environmentalism,” in which they criticized the environmental movements lack of progress towards global warming solutions and argued that a fundamental shift in philosophy, messaging and tactics was necessary to capture the American public’s interest and build a successful movement for climate solutions.
Now, the two “bad boys of environmentalism” are back with a new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and they’re making waves again with their provocative and arguably inflammatory style.
In my opinion, “The Death of Environmentalism” presented a crucially important and valid...