GM Goes Grassroots. A Son is Torn via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Coal industry oddly introspective at Hofstra debate; hand out band aids via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Leading New Energy Leaders Speak at Democratic National Convention via It's Getting Hot In Here
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... Reporting from the Big Tent in Denver via It's Getting Hot In Here
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... Energy Action’s Jessy Tolkan on Al Jazeera’s Inside USA: “America’s Real Black Gold” via It's Getting Hot In Here
Brianna and I were stoked this week to get a piece back from Al Jazeera’s “Inside USA,” featuring Energy Action executive director Jessy Tolkan talking about America’s dependence on coal.
The Inside USA team traveled to the coal mines of Illinois to look at the personalities and the politics behind the fossil fuel. Half of America’s electricity is generated by coal; an amount that produces 40 percent of the country’s greenhouse gases. With this in mind, advocates - including those those taking part in Power Vote - have joined leading climate scientists in calling for a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants, saying that addressing global warming means addressing America’s dependence on coal as a top priority.
Juxtaposed to the proposed... Majora Carter Says Showing Up For Climate Solutions is MORE Than Half the Battle via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Michael Shellenberger Says It’s Time for a Breakthrough on Climate Change (Part 2) via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Michael Shellenberger Says It’s Time For A Breakthrough via It's Getting Hot In Here
Youth climate activists must shift their focus from simply avoiding the impending global warming apocalypse to articulating a vision of a new prosperous and sustainable clean energy economy, says Michael Shellenberger, Power Shift 2007 speaker and coauthor of the new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
Shellenberger - well-known for kicking up a stir with the controversial essay, “The Death of Environmentalism,” co-authored with his “partner-in-crime” Ted Nordhaus in 2004 - is now the President of the Breakthrough Institute, a small think tank which focuses on a new kind of progressive politics.
This weekend, Shellenberger will share his vision of a new, “post-environmentalist,” progressive climate...
Bill McKibben Says It’s Time to “Organize, Organize, Organize” for a Cleaner Future via It's Getting Hot In Here
Bill McKibben has three pieces of advice for people who want to make a difference in the fight against global warming:
“1: Organize. 2. Organize. 3. Organize,” says the well-beloved author, educator, climate activist and co-founder of Step It Up.
Only then does he add his fourth piece of advice: “After that, if they have some energy left, by all means change the light-bulbs.”
And to the young climate activists who are putting together a growing and increasingly sophisticated youth climate movement, McKibben says, “Keep it up!” This weekend, over 5,000 young leaders will converge in Washington D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever national youth climate summit, organized by the Energy Action Coalition. Back at home, tens of thousands more youth...