Flanked by Majora Carter, Jessy Tolkan, Billy Parish, and Kal Penn, Erica Williams of Campus Progress kicked off today’s College Democrats of America’s panel on climate change at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO.
A more accomplished panel speaking on behalf of the youth climate movement would be near impossible to put together. (photo right: Kal Penn signing the Power Vote pledge)
The panelists began by speaking a bit about their personal stories which led to their work in the clean energy movement. It was a particularly poignant and important starting point as it provides the backbone for the extraordinary nature of what the panelists are doing throughout the United States.
Billy Parish – a co-founder of Energy Action Coalition – described the point at which he...
IGHIH is reporting from the sweet new media building a few blocks from the Democratic Convention called The Big Tent. This week you can expect a variety of dispatches from the bloggers stationed here, on the Convention floor, and at various happening around Denver. Below is the first of many posts covering the climate change panels that the hosts of The Big Tent have put together.
Van Jones: Nothing Radical Here
Big Tent is playing to a select audience of activists and journalists. We don’t need the basics, dire warnings of impending doom, or lofty rhetoric about the need to work together. Oakland area activist Van Jones wastes no time getting to the heart of how clean energy can be sold as a pragmatic solution in the current political climate, and he does so by tipping his hat to...