Barack Obama Shows Off His Energy Smarts on Gas Tax Holiday via It's Getting Hot In Here
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These Guys Are No Fossil Fools! Markey and Waxman Call for Ban on New Coal Plants via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Midwest Oil Refineries Gobble Up Canadian Tar Sands, Spew Greenhouse Gasses via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Bush Administration Proposes $10 Billion Christmas Present From Joe Taxpayer to Big Oil via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Pelosi Cobbles Together Strong Energy Bill - Heading for Showdown in Senate 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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NWF Campaign Targets “Final 50″ House Lawmakers to Sponsor Global Warming Bills 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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Time To Step Up the Power Shift: Legislative Shenanigans Underway on Congressional Energy Bill 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,...
New Zealand Bans New Fossil Fuel Power Plants! via It's Getting Hot In Here
New Zealand electricity producers face a 10-year moratorium on all new gas- or coal-fired power plants to help the country reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The nation’s Prime Minister also commits to 90% renewable electricity by 2025.
Electricity producers in New Zealand are now barred from constructing any new fossil fuel power plants for the next ten years, according to Bloomberg.com.
New Zealand already produces about 70 percent of its power from non-polluting and renewable energy sources, including wind, hydro-electric and geothermal generators. New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clarke, recently announced intention to commit to 90% renewable electricity by 2025 and the government is blocking construction of new gas-fired power plants to speed investment in wind and... Rep. Ed Markey vs. Toyota On New Fuel Economy Standards via It's Getting Hot In Here
The supposedly “green” automaker, Toyota, is fighting tougher fuel economy legislation that would save American consumers billions of dollars and put a major dent in the United State’s oil addiction.
Some of you may have missed the buzz kicked up recently by a nationwide campaign to put the heat on Toyota for lobbying against tougher fuel economy standards. The campaign, coordinated by NRDC , the National Environmental Trust, the Union of Concerned Scientists and others is focused on calling out the fact that Toyota, maker of the 46-mpg hybrid Prius, is joining with the Big Three Detroit automakers to lobby hard against a proposed increase in fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2020.
The Senate passed an energy bill including a 35 mpg by 2020 standard...
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...