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LA’s Youth Climate Heroes are the Real Stars!
By John Bernhardt – cross posted from the ACE Blog
On November 21st, 23 high school students from the LA area gathered at the Environmental Charter High School to spend their Saturday afternoon learning how to really Raise their ...
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A friend of mine attending the Youth Clean Energy Forum tomorrow asked me to suggest some talking points (for the administration and fellow youth leaders) and pre-readings. Here’s what I wrote:
I. Any successful global climate treaty has to go beyond the traditional framework of ...
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We’ll spend over $70 Billion in Afghanistan next year, nearly $20 billion more than last year. Isn’t it time we were putting up solar panels instead of dropping bombs?
Source: New York Times.
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Reporting for Project Survival Media in Romania.
By Andrada Farcău with images by Mihai Giurgiu .
©Mihai Giurgiu
Romania was a land of diversity. We used to have four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Now we are having two seasons. So, what can be the reason of changing? ...
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The third sit-in at a Conservative MPs constituency office took place today in Jim Flaherty’s Whitby, Ontario office. These sit-ins are organized by groups of concerned people for climate justice , and will not end until the Conservative government takes strong action on climate change, ...
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I have a column out today in the UMD newspaper The Diamondback about the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations, along with a call for the US to do more. It’s difficult to write about Copenhagen in only 550 words given the complexities, along with the reality that the readers don’t ...
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During PowerShift 2009, I was lucky enough to be able to speak these words to Representative Markey’s Select Committee on Global Warming:
“The $100,000 Clean Energy Revolving Fund I helped build at Macalester College invests in efficiency projects on campus and puts the savings ...
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Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where dozens of activists blockaded the doors all around the building. Over 200 rallied and marched, while ...
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The Avaaz aliens are baa-acck!
Since the aliens first arrived on Planet Earth to make an intergalatic intervention at the Barcelona climate meeting earlier this month, they have been roaming the Earth searching for real climate leaders.
When the Avaaz aliens heard that the Danish Prime ...
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Photos coming soon! Chicago climate activists returned to
the streets today – this time in the financial...
district in downtown Chicago – in a colorful demonstration against cap and trade, carbon offsets and other “false solutions” to climate ...
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Chicago Climate Activists target Carbon Trading for ...
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Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Department of Public Health and Environment in Protest over Coal
Group calls on the Air Quality Control Commission to deny the Cherokee coal plant’s ‘permit to pollute’
Denver, CO – This morning, approximately fifteen local citizens,
representing a diverse ...
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Concerned citizens have blocked the shipment of a
massive generator to Cliffside Coal Plant. Pictures on their...
way. Keep track at http://twitter.com/RisingTideNA Greenville, SC Two protestors have locked themselves to the 1.5 million pound ...
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Breaking News: Lockdown on the Cliffside Coal Plant ...
On November 30, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience actions will take place in nine cities around the U.S.—in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Burlington, VT, two cities in Maine, and Washington DC, as well as several other countries—one week before the UN ...
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Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has a great idea to make the jobs bill green
In the wake of news this month that US unemployment has hit 10.2 percent, the Senate leadership appears to be looking very hard at throwing together a comprehensive “jobs bill,” with the intent of passing ...
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I like numbers, and I also like telling people when they’ve done a good job. So, I’m going to continue what should be a monthly series about this blog itself. This is a big community, and we do amazing work, so it makes sense that we’d want to check in on how we do an even ...
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It’s only a few days until November 30, an international day of climate action and solidarity with the upcoming protests in Copenhagen.
Nine cities are preparing mobilizations, mass actions, protests and civil disobedience targeting a variety of corporate entities complicit in the ...
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This is a nice piece of news . Hopefully the folks in Meigs County, OH will have a good holiday this year in celebrating the cancellation of this proposed plant.
Meigs is ranked as one of the most polluted counties in the country as southeast Ohio is already the site of many coal plants. ...
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Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed “anti-riot law”, less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations in ...
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“Lead, follow, or get out of the way!” , was what Power Shift Canada told the Canadian Government loud and clear on October 24th. Since then, youth across the country have been rallying , calling and dancing to demand that the Canadian government adopt Bill C-311 (the Climate ...
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Seeing the photo of an October 24 event in Sydney, Australia reprinted in the Wall Street Journal today reminded me why images are such an important organizing tool.
Long after an action ends, a great photograph can continue to get a message across. The caption on the photo in the WSJ, for ...
