Items by Juliana Williams

• US Youth Crash Climate Denier Live Webcast in Copenhagen

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  Fifty young Americans took over a climate denier conference hosted by a prominent conservative organization this evening in Copenhagen, rushing the stage and telling the live TV audience that a clean energy future is the real road to prosperity in America. The young people, merely a fraction of the more [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Momentum Feels Good.

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  On Wednesday around 150 youth leaders of this movement were invited to the White House for the first Youth Clean Energy Forum.  They voiced the concerns and ideas of young people from around the country to Cabinet members. On Thursday, 1Sky and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network delivered banners from the [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:22am EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Viva La Resolution: Wash U Senate Urges University to Change Name of “Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization”

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  Written by Will Fischer, student leader at Washington University in St. Louis The students have spoken! In response to demonstrated student outcry over the naming of the “Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization” and with momentum from last week’s flash mob protest, on Wednesday the Wash U Student Union Senate unanimously passed a resolution [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:44pm EST
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• VIDEO: WashU flashmob confronts Coal Executives

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  Written by Will Fischer, student leader at Washington University in St. Louis. Something loud is afoot on our sleepy campus in St. Louis. Washington University students are beginning to re-discover what connects them. Students that have never worked together before have just executed the largest direct action on our campus. The [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:02pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Sen. Sherrod Brown: We need a National Institutes of Energy

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  Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) joined Third Way and the Breakthrough Institute in releasing a new report that calls for the creation of a new “National Institutes of Energy” and a dramatic increase in federal funding for energy research and development.  The report, titled Jumpstarting [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
  by Juliana Williams

• Big Business Targeted Van Jones in Plot to Stop Climate Legislation

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  In the latest development of the events leading to Van Jones’ resignation as Special Adviser to the President on Green Jobs, it has emerged that the effort was spearheaded by Americans For Prosperity (AFP).  Adele Stan of AlterNet writes: If you thought the targeting of Van Jones for vilification by the [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 2:22pm EDT
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• “We blew it.” Let’s not blow it again.

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  In the week before Van Jones’ departure from the White House, the White House was ominously silent in its support for Jones.  Additionally, most of the major environmental organizations, who had supported Jones’ work and appointment to the White House seemed uncertain on to how to respond to attacks, so [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
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• Glenn McCarthy Beck is Hurting America

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  The resignation of Van Jones is about more than Van Jones, more than Glenn Beck.  It is part of a concerted effort to neutralize progressive champions who are trying to fix the problems that are ripping this country apart. First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 11:10am EDT
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• Secretary of Energy: Breakthroughs Essential to Fully Meet Nation’s Energy Challenges

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  Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $377 million in funding to establish 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) pursuing potentially path-breaking basic and translational research at the cutting-edge of clean energy innovation. Of this funding, $277 comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, otherwise known as the [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 2:22pm EDT
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• Shouldn’t Energy Innovation be Worth More than Rush Limbaugh?!

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  Despite President Obama’s call for an energy revolution, it is up to Congress to provide funding.  The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e) made a recent call for research proposals into “high-risk, high-payoff transformational energy-related R&D,” for projects that “(1) translate scientific discoveries and cutting-edge inventions [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:13pm EDT
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• Congress Rejects Obama’s Vision for Energy Education, Student Groups Demand More

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  Written by Yael Borofsky Lying in the rejected scrap heap created by the Senate’s passage of the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3183) is RE-ENERGYSE, President Obama’s $115 million energy education program that he proposed last April. Designed to usher in a new generation of young clean energy innovators by improving [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 7:14pm EDT
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• Fraud? Identity Theft? Impersonation? All In A Day’s Work

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  Update: Avaaz Action Factory held a demonstration in front of the lobby firms offices: photos here How many lobbyists does it take to screw in a lightbulb up democracy? Turns out, just one.  This morning the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported that the lobbying group Bonner & Associates had sent deliberately forged letters [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 2:14pm EDT
  by Juliana Williams

• Pew Report Counts Clean Energy Jobs

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  Released yesterday, the Pew Charitable Trusts released a report titled “The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America” defines and quantifies all the jobs in the every state in country and the District of Columbia that are involved in developing the clean energy economy. To do this, they [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
  by Juliana Williams

• Victory in Iowa!

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  Iowa is all over the news this week.  But what you may not have heard through all the coverage of same-sex marriages is that Iowa will soon connect to the Midwest High Speed Rail Network. This weekend the Iowa State Legislature approved the allocation of $3 million to the Department of [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
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• VIDEO: Momentum in Iowa Hits High Speed

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  We have some serious momentum.  From the hearings on Capitol Hill, to actions to stop coal, to engaging our elected official across the country, this movement is really moving.  And we’re hitting our stride right here in Iowa (excuse the puns). Yesterday, President Obama came to the Trinity Structural Towers, a [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 1:55pm EDT
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• The Invisibility of Climate Change

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  CO2 as a gas is invisible, odorless, tasteless (dissolves instantly in water and is one of the deadliest poisons known to man…wait… we’re not in the Princess Bride here.) and by itself is not harmful on an individual scale.  As we’ve seen it’s hard for the public to personally connect [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2009, 3:18pm EDT
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• Obama Choo-choo-chooses High Speed Rail

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  This morning (coverage here and here), President Obama announced his  plan to spur the creation of a high-speed rail network across the country.  With $8 billion allocated for high speed rail corridors from the recovery package, this move would both upgrade existing rail corridors to accommodate high speed travel and [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
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• ACES: More Than Just a Climate Bill

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  The first draft of the American Clean Energy and Energy Security Act of 2009 (ACES) was released yesterday (full text here, summary here).  Now, I haven’t had the time to read through the full 648 pages of the draft bill, but I’d like to draw your attention to a few [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 6:41am EDT
  by Juliana Williams

• Government Report: New Wave of Coal Plants Not Needed

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  Quick post here - I will try to go into more details later. The Energy Information Administration just released their Annual Energy Outlook report (full text here, summary here) that found that only two new coal plants would need to be constructed between 2013 and 2025, if you don’t take into [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2009, 12:41pm EDT
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• ACT: Urge Congress to Support the Clean Energy Corps!

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  Written by Tamara Evans, National Director for the Sierra Student Coalition Our generation turned out in force in the historic November elections. We turned out by the thousands to Power Shift. Our representatives are taking notice that we are engaged and we aren’t going away. One of the early signs of [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
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• How We Win

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  As Congress comes closer to passing national climate and energy legislation, there will be groups calling on us to support specific proposals and leverage our entire grassroots force towards lobbying for their passage.  While this is an important role to play, it is not the entirety of our role as [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
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• WV State Senator Drinks ‘Coal Slurry’ to Shame His Colleagues into Action

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  West Virgina State Senator Randy White (D-Webster) stood up on the state floor (video in link) yesterday and asked his fellow Senators to join him in drinking the discolored water that average citizens have to drink every day.  Not a one joined him. Although the water he drank was not exactly [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 12:49pm EDT
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• Another One Bites The Dust: Coal Victory in Iowa!

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  At 8:30 this morning Alliant Energy, a subsidiary of Interstate Power and Light, announced its plans to abandon construction of a 649 MW coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa.   The decision comes only 6 days after the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) agreed to extend the public comment period from [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2009, 8:21pm EST
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• No Silver Bullet, But Bullet Trains Are a Start

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  In remarkable parallel to the climate crisis, there is no single solution to reviving our economy - it will take a combination of innovative thinking and bold actions to face both challenges.  The American Recovery and Investment Act (of which Jesse provides a great summary of energy-related features) illustrates that. I [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 10:26pm EST
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• Could Big Stone II Be A Zombie?

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  Even though the EPA overruled the approval of the Big Stone II air permit just over a week ago, South Dakota Senator John Thune urged (also, here) the Obama administration to rethink it’s move.  Despite the fact that “the EPA’s decision comes after the state failed to require state-of-the-art pollution [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 6:48pm EST
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• VIDEO: Obama, community and organizing

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  Okay, I’ll admit that this post has (almost) nothing to do with the fact that President Obama was a community organizer, but it has everything to do with how inseparable community and organizing are.  Check out this video from my friends at Iowa Global Warming about the National Day of [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2009, 7:09pm EST
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• Iowa Cleans Up Its (Coal) Act: Cites TVA as Factor

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  The stunning negligence of the Tennessee Valley Authority to protect people, land and water from toxic coal waste pollution has prompted agencies to take a new look at coal pollution, including my state of Iowa. The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission just announced today its decision “to pursue landfill-style regulations at coal-ash [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 8:31pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Positive Vibes at the RNC

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  The air in St. Paul is one of both tense expectation and also hoped-for disappointment. The protesters and the police are poised, waiting to see who will provoke the other first. At the same time, no one really wants a major violent confrontation. All around, people are wearing their protest on [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2008, 12:10am EDT
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• An Activist’s Confession

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  (Author’s Note: I wrote this in April but hesitated to post it because of the personal nature of this post. I welcome feedback and criticism, but I ask that it focus on the emotions experienced rather than the qualities of my character.) I have at many times been a selfish activist. [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2008, 10:50pm EDT
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• ACTION NEEDED: Help Deal a Death Blow to Big Stone II

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  After three years of fighting the construction of a second coal-fired power plant near Big Stone Lake in South Dakota, the fight could come to a close! Not only is the existing coal plant one of the dirtiest coal plants in the country (grandfathered in to avoid pollution restrictions in [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2008, 9:14pm EDT
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• Share Your Story with the Movement!

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  (Written by the Sierra Student Coalition Publishing Group) For those of us in school, the semester is coming to a close and our student organizations are wrapping up projects for the year. We face the next academic season with the full knowledge that we are entering an era of new politics [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2008, 1:33pm EDT
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• I Know What You�re Doing This Summer

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  No, it’s not the latest installment of trashy teen horror flicks. It’s a call to keep organizing for climate solutions this summer. Consider the incredible progress youth have made so far this school year: fighting scores of coal, oil, liquefied natural gas and other fossil fuel facilities; achieving amazing campus, city [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 2:30pm EDT
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• The Morning After: Post-Caucus Iowa and Implications for the Climate Movement

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  Like the morning after a one-night stand, the morning after the Iowa caucus left many with remnants of exhilaration and disappointment. Last night was historic for any number of statistics you could dig up from the reports. My precinct more than doubled its turnout from the 2004 caucus, and the [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 6:33pm EST
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• Ring in the New Lawsuit: Fight for Vehicle Emissions Standards Renewed

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  In response to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of California’s application for a waiver to regulate the tailpipe emissions on vehicles, California, five environmental non-profit organizations and fifteen other states are suing the EPA. Joining California are the states of Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 4:30pm EST
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• This Just In: EPA denies CA clean car standards

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  EPA Adminstrator Stephen Johnson just announced today that he plans to deny the waiver California applied for to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions from cars, SUVs and Trucks. Citing the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that President Bush signed into law today (the only major redeeming factor to [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2007, 9:10pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Our Six-Week Rollercoaster

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  For many of us organizing to combat global warming and create a just, sustainable and prosperous future, the last six weeks probably felt like an emotional and political roller coaster. The events of the last six week are not all good, but also not all bad. I have felt the [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2007, 7:17pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Industrialized Kyoto Countries Can Meet Reductions, If�

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  On Tuesday, the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat announced (also here) that although emissions from 40 industrialized countries almost reached an all time high in 2005, Taken together, the countries that signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol are projected to achieve reductions on the order of 11 per cent for the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2007, 1:43pm EST
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• Two Year Anniversary: From Montreal to Bali

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  February 16th, 2005 saw the Kyoto Protocol go into effect, with its ratification by Russia. When the United States rejected the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, some feared that international climate actions would fail, but 36 countries are now working to reduce emissions under Kyoto (the most well known requirement of [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2007, 4:46pm EST
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• Ten Midwest Leaders Sign A Regional Climate Agreement

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  Today the Governors of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, South Dakota and the Premier of Manitoba signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord at the Midwestern Governors Association (MGA) Energy Security and Climate Change Summit (See here, here and here). The Accord will Establish greenhouse gas reduction targets [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 2:51pm EST
  by Juliana Williams

• Coal Industry Sponsoring Tonight�s CNN Democratic Presidential Debate

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  The following is a post from www.ThinkProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress: Coal Industry Sponsoring Tonight�s CNN Democratic Presidential Debate Tonight at 8 pm EST, CNN will air a Democratic presidential debate, live from Las Vegas, Nevada. A full-page advertisement in today�s New York Times states that the [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 12:50pm EST
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• We want more!

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  Tonight at Power Shift, as Congressman Ed Markey stood before us inciting us to support the proposed Energy Bill, a few of us began chanting �We want more, we want more.� Congressman Markey stopped short to listen. We chanted for a full minute with a fervor, intensity and volume that [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2007, 10:21pm EDT
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• Walking the Walk

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  Something has been bothering me lately. In terms of messaging for the climate movement, we talk about the need to promote positive solutions that will help us build a more sustainable society, rather than just stopping our current patterns of destructive resource consumption. This is absolutely right. We do need [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 3:53pm EDT
  by Juliana Williams