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• Youth Climate Photographer Shows at Barcelona Negotiations

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  If you are a youth climate activist, if you have been to a Powershift conference, and/or if you read this blog, you have seen some of these amazing images that are on display, right now, in front of delegates at the Barcelona intercessional meetings –only one month before Copenhagen. (click [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:31pm EST
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• It’sGettingHotInHere.org Meets It’s Hot in Here Campus Radio

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  One would think that with a name like It’s Hot In Here, the hosts of the University of Michigan based environmental news/grooves radio show would have been in touch with It’sGettingHotInHere for years. And that maybe the two were even closely related. Surprisingly, this is not the case, and I [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
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• Project Survival Media Launches from Minna Gallery, SF

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  Youth climate leaders launch a new media initiative to put Survival front & center on international stage, pressure delegates in Copenhagen San Francisco, CA.— On August 11, hundreds of youth climate activists, supporters, artists, and community members gathered at Minna Gallery to launch a global network of youth journalists who will [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
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• Students Lead Charge to Power School with Renewable Energy

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  Cross-posted from SolveClimate While the planet’s future climate is being determined by lawmakers in Congress and the United Nations Conference of the Parties this December, some students who are too young to vote are taking their future into their own hands. Oregon’s Corvallis High School was named “America’s most eco-friendly school” [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
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• How Senate Democrats Will Determine Our Future

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  I want to preface this post by saying I share the optimism presented in many posts on itsgettinghot by the Obama administration’s behavior and decisions in the First 100 Days. There are many tools available to the President to make change immediately, from budget proposals to executive rulemaking, and he [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 7:31pm EDT
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• Congressman Ed Markey Directs Student’s Question to Panel in Select Committee Hearing.

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  Congressman Ed Markey, Chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and the new chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, contributed some thoughts to the National Teach-In press release, and enthusiastically supported student and youth efforts to have a say in Congress’s energy decisions [...]
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  Posted: February 05, 2009, 1:32pm EST
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• We Will Get What We Need from Congress This Year: The 1st 100 Days

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  The National Teach-In Webast is up. Featuring Jesse Tolkan, Billy Parish, and Wahleah Johns, this webcast addresses the following topics: - Why are these First 100 Days so critical in taking the steps we need to address climate change? - Why should Congress listen to Young People? - What could our country look [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2009, 6:42pm EST
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• Video-Letter to Congress

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  As part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming, the four primary organizers have made this sample video-letter to Congress: We are helping schools, congregations, and communities across the country make video-letters of their own. These videos might describe what happened at their Teach-In event (kicking off Feb. 5), talk about [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 1:18pm EST
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• The First 100 Days Call Us to Action

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  The First 100 Days of the new administration are here. The short time frame that we have to achieve significant action on cutting warming pollution coincides with a unique political opportunity to change our nation. The first of these opportunities is February 5th. The National Teach-In on Global Warming is connecting [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 1:52am EST
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• Close Congress’s Global Warming Education Gap: NTI

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  Over winter break, I got to speak on the phone with a senior Congressional aid. The conversation moved at breakneck speed, covering Congressional caucuses, faith leadership, and celebrity contacts (we left messages for Sean Penn and Dan Reed!). But what stuck in my head was this comment: “Legislators on the [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 12:17pm EST
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• Engage the Nation, Educate Congress: The National Teach-In on Global Warming. February 5th, 2009.

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  On Tuesday, America voted in one of the most critical elections of our nation’s history. As the energy around the elections subsides, climate and social justice advocates must set our sights on the next step: Bird-dogging Obama and Congress throughout the First 100 Days of his administration. In order to [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2008, 2:51pm EST
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• Our Window of Opportunity: How FDR and LBJ would have tackled the Climate Crisis

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  Based on the article in September’s American Prospect by Rick Perlstein In order to achieve action on climate change, we need a strong leader who is not afraid to act as fast as the science demands. The next US President must move our country from a position of static non-action into [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2008, 2:29pm EDT
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• “Eighty by Fifty”–A year later, Britain Listens.

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  A year ago this November 5, Energy Action’s Billy Parish stood in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and demanded sound energy policy from our federal government. Behind him stood over six thousand students and young people who converged on Washington for the first Power [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2008, 5:58pm EDT
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