Beyond Al Gore and Inconvenient Truths: A New Generation, A New Vision, a New Dream via It's Getting Hot In Here
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Keeping Up the Power Shift: Act Now to Help Pass Historic Clean Energy Bill 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... Minnesota Students TEAM Up! via It's Getting Hot In Here
This weekend, I was one of several Minnesotan college students who retreated to a somewhat secluded castle in Northern Minnesota built by Arctic explorer and climate change activist Will Steger. Students from Macalester, St. Olaf, Hamline, the University of Minnesota, St. Scholastica, and St. Thomas gathered at the second summit of TEAM Minnesota- the Transcampus Energy Action Movement, that is. Good food, incredible meeting place (a castle on the Boundary waters?! Does it get better?), and dedicated people all make for the very best sort of coalition summit you can ask for.
TEAM got right to work planning statewide and national initiatives and exploring exciting new communications systems to keep us not only in touch, but maintaining the momentum and energy of coalition summits. In the... Finding the Voice of a Global Youth Climate Movement? via It's Getting Hot In Here
Why Does the Youth Voice Matter?
There are a few facts not in dispute that tell a troubling story, that the next 50 years will be off-the-charts. Talk to a climate scientist, an economist, petroleum geologist, or a technologist and you notice a trend. The scale of change over the next 50 years is simply unforeseen.
Greenhouse gas emissions, peak oil, population, economic growth, spread of the internet and mobile phones — things are changing at unprecedented and fantastic rates.
Yet the key decisions about the response to these dynamics are being made now, locking us into different pathways: of building a sustainable society or one that plunges headlong into an ecological crisis; of tackling extreme poverty and social justice or a stratified society of a jet-set elite and grinding...