“I have always supported clean coal” via It's Getting Hot In Here
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THOUSANDS TO PARTICIPATE IN “GREEN JOBS NOW: A DAY TO BUILD THE NEW ECONOMY” via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Go To Them: New Energy Jobs and the Populism We Need via It's Getting Hot In Here
Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Blog.
It’s not just about framing—“new energy jobs” are the best and only shot at bringing down the political impasse between America and the energy policy it needs.
The effort to pass a sensible climate and energy policy is not working. I don’t just mean we’re not getting the right content in legislation—whether it’s trading or taxing or new investment. I want to face facts: right now there isn’t serious political support, or even interest, for an “energy bill” with climate change solutions at its heart. Not from most Democrats in Congress, and not from the vast majority of Americans, whose support is desperately needed by us climate and clean energy advocates.
This can be our crucial moment—a point of deep... 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... 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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Full Funding of the Green Jobs Act has a chance on the Senate floor tomorrow! via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Don’t Miss Cascade POWER SHIFT: Mobilizing Youth for Climate Justice! via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Van Jones Pumps Up the Crowd via It's Getting Hot In Here
…but not without a little participation from the audience.... 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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NYT Op-Ed on Green For All via It's Getting Hot In Here
I know we should all have a bone to pick with Mr. Friedman over at the New York Times for his comments on the “quiet” youth movement. But I just wanted to point out that today’s Op-Ed piece, titled “The Green-Collar Solution,” is on Green for All, and Founder Van Jones’ push for green jobs. It’s pretty informational, laying out the birth of the idea and the basic development of the campaign. Friedman also manages to drop the Apollo Alliance and Sustainable South Bronx–two key players and close partners of Green For All–into the conversation as well.
Here’s an interesting snippet from the article:
One thing spurring [Jones] in this project, he explained, was the way that the big oil companies bought ads in black-owned newspapers...