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• Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law 12 days before UN Climate Negotiations.

  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 Copenhagen, strips people of civil liberties, [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:33am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Canadian Parliament Supports Strong Copenhagen Target

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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 Change Accountability act) which [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  by Matthew Carroll

• Some quick thoughts on the power of images

  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, [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:01pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Obama coming to the UN climate party early and empty

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  It’s official Obama is coming to Copenhagen. He will attend the UN Climate negotiations happening 2 weeks from now. However, this announcement reads like Obama coming to a pot-luck party early before anyone else is there, and forgetting to bringing a dish. His timing is well… not exceptional, and even [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by Nick Magel

• Obama to Go to Copenhagen, Announces 17% Target

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  I thought it would be worthwhile to post the whole press release that the White House put out today about President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen. I’m sure folks have a whole variety of opinions on the President’s visit and his announcement of emissions cuts “in the range of 17% below [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:10am EST
  by Ben Wessel

• Stopping Coal-Powered Transmission Lines

  This is my second post on the need for the Maryland Public Service Commission to reject transmission lines that would take coal burned in West Virginia, and transfer it into my state of Maryland as a source of power. You can find part 1 here. Today I have a column [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:56am EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Youth Voice ROCKS Senate

  Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  by Alisha Fowler

• Mass Civil Disobedience in Australia and Canada

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  Two large, well organized, but apparently unrelated actions today on either side of the globe underscore the rising intensity of the fight for climate justice. In Australia, about 150 activists were arrested in the capitol as they demanded a strong, legally binding treaty in Copenhagen.  Newcastle Rising Tide takes credit for [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  by Morgan

• Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protesters Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    11/21/09 Contact: Zoe Beavers 304-854-7372 Email: news@climategroundzero.org PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:01am EST
  by andrewmunn

• Time Out: Youth Climate Leaders Must Change the Game

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  After an emotional week for the members of the youth climate movement, who have staked so much hope on the promise of passing legislation in congress this year and sealing a binding agreement in Copenhagen, we’ve had to deal with managing our expectations and reframing how we approach the opportunities [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:35pm EST
  by jessytolkan81

• Naomi Klein: Seattle Movements Coming of Age in Copenhagen

  Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen. In both, Klein talks about how anti-establishment direct action movement are preparing [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  by Sparki

• UMD for Clean Energy Makes Waves on City Council

  UMD for Clean Energy, student group I’m Campaign Director of, has another article out about us in The Diamondback about our efforts during the College Park City Council elections, which culminated in a march to the polls, and got some pretty positive reaction. This new article also chronicles our presentation [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:59pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Turning the Tide: Principled Determination in a Time of Crisis

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  An update from the front lines of Massachusetts Last night, I slept in my bed. Normally, such an action is not newsworthy, but for me, it was the first time I had slept in my bed since the night of October 23rd, 2009.  Like hundreds of other students, religious leaders, and community [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  by craigaltemose

• COP15 and Beyond- The Climate Movement Fights On!

  Cross posted from here- http://www.watthead.org/ After working tirelessly to push federal politicians to be accountable to the will of the people through Powershift regional summits, 350.org’s day of action, local events and direct actions, you’d think exhaustion would be setting in on the ranks of the US youth climate movement. Especially [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:44pm EST
  by markkimbrell

• VIDEO: Climate Justice and the Copenhagen Moment

  An inspiring new video from smartMeme with leaders from frontline communities and allies talking about the Copenhagen moment. Posted in Carbon Trading, Copenhagen 2009, United States [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:28pm EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• More Than Consumers

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  By Tim DeChristopher. Cross-posted from PeacefulUprising.org In the essential film The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard says, “Our primary identity has become that of consumer.” This is certainly a disturbing notion for those of us who are trying to steer our society toward sustainability.  Perhaps even more disturbing, though, is the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  by ash_anderson

• 6 suggested corporate targets for November 30th Day of Action

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    Don’t have a plan for the Mobilization for Climate Justice’s day of action on November 30? Here are six corporations with offices in thousands of cities around the country that you can plan an action at. As many of you know, November 30th is the 10th anniversary of the Battle [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  by mattwilkerson

• Winning the Clean Energy Race: A New Strategy for American Leadership

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  Asian nations are set to dominate the clean energy industry without a major energy competitiveness project by the U.S. government. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:40am EST
  by Teryn Norris

• Hope from China for a Climate Treaty as Obama Delays Progress

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  Tuesday evening, amidst a historic Beijing meeting between President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, dozens of activists with the global campaigning network Avaaz.org released over one hundred Chinese flying lanterns and a floating balloon banner into the air just south of the White House. Chinese flying lanterns are a symbol [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  by Morgan

• Hey L.A. Climate Heroes!

  What are you doing this weekend!?  ACE has some sweet plans for you — if you’re game. Do you want to raise your voice by giving presentations?  Do you want to be trained to be one of the many inspiring and savvy young leaders out there? YOU are invited to attend our [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  by Alisha Fowler

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

  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
  by Juliana Williams

• Save Coal River Mountain Rally and Protest; Charleston WV; Dec 7 at 2pm

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  Seriously, if you aren’t going to be in Copenhagen, ask yourself why won’t you be in West Virginia defending Coal River Mountain on Dec 7? As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of their lives to save Coal River Mountain [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  by Sparki

• China and US Youth Ready for Climate Action

  As President Obama wraps up his trip to China today, he and President Hu should be looking at Chinese and American civil society for an example of how their countries can work together in tackling the climate crisis. On the 350 International Day of Climate Action, over 300 events took place [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Delay Kills.

  Today over 40 environmental ministers from countries around the world, including the biggest emitters US and China, wrapped up their final hours of talks before the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen on Dec 7th. The meetings conclude two days after the Obama administration seemed to suggest strong support for [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  by Nick Magel

• Nuclear energy: Don’t believe the sticker price

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  I have an op-ed column out today that attacks the threat of a nuclear power plant in Maryland by looking at recent fruitless attempts to build plants, and the cost born by ratepayers. A common perception of nuclear power is that it’s an affordable, carbon-free energy source that could meet a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:41am EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil?

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  Wanted to share this insightful (and quite funny and fun to read) rebuttal of Thomas Friedman’s recent ignorant and shallow New York Times column. Chris Lang takes Friedman’s arguments apart, line by line. Cross posted from REDD Monitor. Enjoy. Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil? By Chris [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:06am EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• Young Americans Won’t Let Obama Waste Copenhagen Opportunity

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  I was wide awake until 3am last night watching President Obama take questions from students in Shanghai, China, after announcing over the weekend that the expectations for the United Nation’s climate meeting in Copenhagen next month will be significantly scaled back. Seeing a president who wants to be a part of [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:04pm EST
  by jessytolkan81

• Mr. President: Time to Quit Fibbing and Spinning

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  I wanted to share this piece from Bill McKibben with you all. I’ve also been torn up about Obama’s lack of leadership over the last few days, especially since we’ve seen so much great leadership from the grassroots over the past weeks. Curious to see what you all think: Mr. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Sorry Canada, You Ain’t No Boy Scout

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  There are just over three weeks to Copenhagen and the term “boy-scout” has come up several times. “We’re always the Boy Scout in the room,” said Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Economic Development and Trade. Days earlier, Jim Prentice “wants the world to know he’ll be no Boy Scout when crucial [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  by maryam adrangi

• Record High Temperatures outpace Record Lows

  Aside from statisticians rejecting global cooling, this has got to be one of the most damning sets of temperature data that I’ve ever seen. This kind of information should be forwarded widely. Article is re-printed below. Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S. November 12, 2009 BOULDER—Spurred by a warming climate, [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Vote to help SustainUS raise funds for Copenhagen!

  Good Afternoon Climate Champions, The SustainUS Agents of Change COP-15 delegation needs your help! Each of our 26 delegates is working to raise funds for the SustainUS delegation as well as a Latin American Youth delegation for travel to Copenhagen. We’ve submitted a proposal to the Brighter Planet Project Fund, and have [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:21pm EST
  by Dominic MacCormack

• Farming on the Frontlines of Change: a Report-Back from Project Survival Media

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  This post is provided on behalf of Project Survival Media – a grassroots, student-run media project designed to highlight the true costs of fossil fuels in the lead up to Copenhagen.  As part of this initiative, Project Survival Media team members in California and Oregon are documenting industrial agribusiness’ contributions to [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:24pm EST
  by nickengelfried

• Reed College Students Sing Their Way Onto Parents’ Weekend Stage, Seeking Climate Action from President

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  From Joel Batterman, Senior at Reed College in Portland, OR Students at Reed College in Portland, Oregon have been working to green their campus for years. In the past decade, they’ve established an Environmental Studies major, composting program, organic farm, and sustainability grant fund. The Student Senate has called on the [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:51pm EST
  by jennybedellstiles

• Project Survival Media: The Californian Front

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  Project Survival Media is alive and working globally to bring the survival tactics and sustainable practices of real people to the UN conference in Copenhagen. Right now all over the world, teams are filming different groups of people for their own documentaries. Here in the Bay Area, California, after wwoofing for [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  by amydewan

• Coal Front Group “Hijacks Veterans, Dishonors Veterans Day”

  This is according to Veteran Richard Allen Smith, a member of the group VoteVets and Operation Free, in response to an e-mail sent out by ACCCE, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, which reads “Greetings! With Veterans Day around the corner, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• November 30th – Take Action for Climate Justice!

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  NOVEMBER 30, 2009 As the world’s biggest companies and their friends in government continue to fight a transition to more just and sustainable ways of living, climate change threatens to turn our world upside down with water shortages, crop failures, sea level rise and ecosystem collapse. A million species face extinction [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  by mattwilkerson

• Great Video on Climate Solutions in Rural China

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  When people ask me the best way to get back to 350 ppm, my first answer is always: ”Organize!” That’s because citizen action is key to passing the type of national legislation and creating the international treaties we need to solve the climate crisis. But a constant obsession with top-down solutions — [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• The Same Tired Talking Points Brought To You This Time by Senator Baucus and Dirty Energy Lobbyists

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  Today, the Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing for the Boxer-Kerry bill. News such as this would typically be welcomed as necessary progress, as we are pushing for strong climate legislation to pass through the Senate before Copenhagen. However, one must take into consideration ulterior motives when Senator Max [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:26am EST
  by skolmk

• Direct action against climate change

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  I thought I’d share this excellent opinion piece from the UK on the value of direct action in the climate movement. With each day bringing new compromises from corporate green groups and governments in the lead up to Copenhagen, it is essential that we keep up the heat in the [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:32pm EST
  by mattwilkerson

• The Power Shift Regional Summits are over, but we are not!

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  Yesterday I came back from Ohio jazzed about all of the great work and outcomes of the Power Shift Ohio Summit – movement building, training, campaign development, and real political impact! Power Shift Ohio and West helped us conclude the regional summits with a bang, and when I returned to DC, [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:07pm EST
  by Whit Jones

• Most Vulnerable Countries Call for 350ppm and more

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  Leadership is contagious. President Nasheed of the Maldives delivered a powerful speech yesterday at the opening of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, which included leaders from Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Ghana, Kenya, Kiribati, Maldives, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania and Vietnam and other countries. The focus of his speech was to bring attention to [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:50pm EST
  by Phil Aroneanu

• A World Without Ice

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  The world including the sea level, climate, and landscape has been shaped by the power of ice for billions of years.  And now, as we’ve pushed co2 concentrations well beyond historical ranges (at least the range of the last 800,000 years), ice is becoming harder to find.  There’s even the [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:21am EST
  by lizveazey

• Ida rips through El Salvador, Headed for US

  from Bill McKibben: Were thinking of our friends in El Salvador today, like these these girls scouts at a 350 rally. because a truly nasty hurricane, Ida, just blew through the tiny country, leaving more than a hundred dead, and many still missing in mudslides triggered by massive rains, in some [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:14pm EST
  by jamiehenn

• Power Shift West sends ripples across 13 states

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  Student organizers working with Cascade Climate Network (CCN), Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG), Sierra Student Coalition (SSC), and student groups at the University of Oregon hosted Power Shift West ’09, which began Friday, November 6 and went through Sunday, November 8. The three-day event featured educational workshops; special [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:16am EST
  by gabrielelsner

• Making It Count

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  As politicians and diplomats try to crush expectations from the Copenhagen negotiations next month, young people across the world are stepping up their efforts to preserve the hope of a legally binding, science-based, equitable agreement to secure the survival of all nations and peoples. Since rising to the task of co-leading [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:18am EST
  by Casper ter Kuile

• Hey, Northwest Natural – LNG’s a Climate Crime!

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  Yesterday, the fight against new fossil fuel infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest rose to a new level.  For years, a remarkable coalition of activists – ranging from wilderness advocates, to small farmers and timber growers, to college students and climate organizers – has been fighting proposals by giant energy companies [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:05pm EST
  by nickengelfried

• Hope and Action in Massachusetts

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  Posted on behalf of Jay O’Hara of the Leadership Campaign   Copenhagen looms like Russia over Sarah Palin’s horizon, and it is easy to get discouraged that negotiations aren’t going to accomplish what needs to be done: our federal government will not pass laws that will meet the demands of physics and [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  by craigaltemose

• Me, Nigeria, and Grenada? Thanks to you.

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  It was a really powerful experience to sit up on stage at the 350.org press conference in Barcelona this afternoon with Ambassador Dessima Williams from Grenada and Dr. Victor Fodeke, the head of the Nigerian delegation, and talk to the media about the growing 350 movement. I started getting into [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:01am EST
  by jamiehenn

• Looking for Climate Leaders? None here…yet

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  On the final day of the UNFCCC negotiations in Barcelona, the last meetings before the world turns it’s eyes to Copenhagen, the Avaaz Action Factory formed a coalition with the aliens from Planet B (you read that right). The aliens were on a dire mission to find climate leaders who [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:14am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Are U.S. students ready to take a moral stand on climate change?

  This is a guest post by Jen Row ‘11 of Williams College. I am- as are a growing movement of over 80 people from around the world are beginning a hunger strike as a moral reaction to climate change.  The international Climate Justice Fast begins this Friday, November 6th and will [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:08am EST
  by Morgan

• Saudi Arabia, Don’t Trade Climate for Oil.

  This morning a group of youth climate activists attending the UNFCCC negotiations in Barcelona stood in solitary with actions in over 18 developing countries including Bangladesh, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mexico, India, Nepal, and Nigeria to name just a few. Community groups from these regions converged on local Saudi Arabian [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:05am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Blowing up our clean energy future

  Cross posted from Grist By Nell Greenberg, Rainforest Action Network Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes off—turning the region’s historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie beneath their surface. But Coal River [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:44am EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• 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
  by madbugz

• UMD for Clean Energy Proves the Skeptics Wrong with March to the Polls

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  So reads the Diamondback article in today’s paper. I’m also told we got covered by another local paper and by NPR (scroll down to middle of the page). In the past College Park elections student turnout had not broken 50 voters total, but I counted 80 students in our march [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• 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

• Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails?

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  Some scary prospects of where people are turning – geoengineering, the false solution that once seemed like science fiction, is actually being taken seriously. Seriously? Diana Bronson, ETC Group We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein As global climate negotiations in Barcelona [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:58am EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• European Action Factory Kicks Off In Barcelona

  Last week 12 international climate activists converged on Barcelona to kick off two months of climate actions leading up to the unprecedented climate change agreement slated to be achieved in Copenhagen mid-December. The “Action Factory” is comprised of young climate activists from Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Senegal, United States, and [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:04am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Rich countries halt Barcelona climate talks with inaction – Africa walks out

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  Cross posted from Grist African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona just refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions. Rich countries (also called “Annex 1 countries”) have ground negotiations to [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Joshua Kahn Russell

• UMD for Clean Energy Endorsements Stir Things Up

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  Today is our local College Park city council elections. There’s been a lot of good press for UMD for Clean Energy, the student group I’m a part of that’s actively involved in this election. The Diamondback has already given our endorsements and Green March to City Hall attention. On election [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• Big Stone II Coal Plant totally dead!

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  My first year in the midwest, my first month really, I participated in a Bike rally with pinwheels taped to our helmets (I guess to symbolize wind power but looking back at pictures we looked a bit strange) to attend a hearing on the fate of Big Stone II, a [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:16pm EST
  by laurabhill

• EPA Response to Sit-in Protest

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  Last Friday’s EPA protest ended with these words of understanding from the EPA officials.  The 13 activists who sat in the building for over 4 hours felt like their point had been made loud and clear and left of their own free will, without any legal action. I posted a live-blog [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:34pm EST
  by Morgan

• Clean Energy Forums are popping up in target states across the country. What about your state?

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  Cross posted from grist: From coast to coast, teams of young volunteers are organizing Clean Energy Forums.  As part of Focus the Nation‘s campaign Community and the Road to Copenhagen, young organizers are engaging their communities for a day of climate dialogue and reaching out to their senators to join the [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  by markkimbrell

• Powershift West is Going to be Hot!

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  As registration tops 400 with 4 days left and zooms towards our anticipated goal of 500 participants, Powershift West organizers have released a promo video for the conference to lure in anyone left unregistered. For those out there who doubted that the lil ol’ barely-populated Northwest could deliver an outstanding Powershift [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  by jennybedellstiles

• Green Activists March to City Hall Tomorrow

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  This is UMD for Clean Energy’s big event of the semester, and the culmination of the election phase of our Green for College Park campaign. We are looking to elect a fiercely green city council that will make College Park the gold standard for sustainability in our state. Last week [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:51am EST
  by Matt Dernoga

• The Summer of Solutions: Join the Team

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  This video is of and by my friend and co-worker Matt Kazinka. He’s making the case why you should join the Summer of Solutions. The youth-led grassroots program is already growing rapidly – we had 1 program in St. Paul, Minnesota – last year it blossomed to nine nationwide. Dozens [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:19am EST
  by timothydenherderthomas

• Vote Locally – Think Globally

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  This week on November 3rd, polls will open in communities across America. The ballot may not be filled with Presidential or Congressional candidates and the money spent on the campaigns is substantially less, but voting is still essential. Local politicians shape the communities we live in and should be taking [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  by Ellie Johnston

• Save the Clean Air Act in Five Simple Steps

  A couple of days ago, I myself and three other young people were in a meeting with one of Senator Jeff Merkley’s field staff in Portland, Oregon.  We were there to talk about the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, which Senator Merkley is already working to pass [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 12:54am EDT
  by nickengelfried

• Serving Fresh Cups of Reality to Tar Sands Financiers

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  Rainforest Action Network Toronto activists took part in a nation-wide campaign against Royal Bank of Canada and set up a coffee shop in front of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto to protest the bank’s involvement in the tar sands. Activists served coffee and [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:45pm EDT
  by maryam adrangi

• New York’s 23rd District and Clean Energy

  If you’ve been watching the network news lately, you might have noticed the story about the Republican party eating its own candidates in the special election contest for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. The 23rd district is being given up by Republican John McHugh, who is now serving in the [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
  by Matt Dernoga

• Video:DC Protest and Sit-in at the EPA

  Yesterday, 13 people sat in while 50 rallied calling on the EPA to intervene at Coal River Mountain and end mountaintop removal.  Here’s the video. Posted in global warming [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 9:42am EDT
  by Sparki

• Secretary Chu: Energy Efficiency Is Good Economics, Will Save You Money, Will Create Jobs, and Will Help Save Our Planet.

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  As I mentioned in a previous post, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is an energy efficiency geek and that’s why he is loved by anyone that has a rational view on energy policy. Today he gave us efficiency geeks another reason to gloat by writing a fantastic piece on HuffingtonPost explaining [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
  by Tommaso Boggia

• End Mountaintop Removal: Sit-ins, Zombies, Protests, Banner Drops Oh My!

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  Today we took our protests against mountaintop removal national.  Decision-makers from in New York and Washington D.C. have been getting the message loud and clear that mountaintop removal’s end must come soon.  Hundreds participated today with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network, Energy Justice Network and other environmental groups in nationwide [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
  by Sparki

• Breaking: EPA Sit-In to Spark Urgent Action on MTR

  Live blog (See release below for more details:) 2:02 All activists still sitting inside.  Outside protest marched under EPA archways chanting loudly and are still causin’ a ruckus outside in solidarity.  Activists aren’t leaving until blasting on Coal River Mountain stops 1:57 more great photos and accounts from around the country from [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
  by Morgan

• Kucinich Opposes Coal-fired Power Plant

  Washington, Oct 28-Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday sent a letter to the President and CEO of American Municipal Power Ohio (AMP) at AMP’s annual meeting in Cleveland, requesting a delay in the final decision on proceeding with a proposed coal-fired power plant to serve the municipal-owned power companies in Ohio. In [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  by Mattie Reitman

• “Do you think the government is serious about climate change? Should it be?”

  The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Canada’s largest news service, asked this question yesterday on their Power & Politics program. My answer is below, and you can add yours or ‘agree and disagree’ with posted comments by clicking here. No and yes. The federal government knows, and agrees with, what the science [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:52am EDT
  by Zoë

• Blowing the Whistle on Astroturf

  Hey Bonner & Associates- here’s what astroturf looks like! Today’s Congressional hearing shone light on the fraudulent letters sent to three congressmen on behalf of Bonner & Associates just days before the vote on the House energy bill (ACES) this past summer.  In short, we investigated astroturfing. The unfortunate tactics employed [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:11pm EDT
  by skolmk

• It’s time to listen to the youth climate movement

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  Written by Chris Connolly and Amara Possian. The media response to the youth protest that disrupted Question Period in the Canadian House of Commons on Monday has completely missed the mark. As participants of Power Shift Canada, last weekend’s climate change summit that brought together over 1000 young Canadians to engage [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
  by amarapossian

• #350Cute

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  As photo curator for 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action, I had the privilege of going through the 20,000 photos that inundated our flickr account.  Through this process, my heart started filling with all of your visual stories, the laughter, the sincerity, the time and effort it took to put [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:44am EDT
  by Shadia Wood

• Philly Activists Protest Blasting On Coal River Mountain

  Early Thursday morning, local climate activists dropped a banner reading “Save Coal River Mtn.” from the 18th Street overpass above the Vine Street Expressway. The banner contrasted images of a wind farm and a bulldozer; the bottom read, “Coal Is Over.” Massey Energy Company, one of the largest coal producers in [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  by Sparki

• Thoughts and Background On the First Senate Climate Hearing

  Crossposted from Funding Our Future, the Campus Progress blog promoting policy that provides economic opportunities for our generation. What time did you wake up yesterday morning? I woke up at 5 AM to go down to the Dirksen Senate Office Building and attend the first hearing for the new climate bill. The [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
  by Tommaso Boggia

• Anti-MTR Activist Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail After WV Lockdown

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  The coming trend in southern West Virginia as direct action heats up on mountaintop removal? Joseph Hamsher, 22, Sentenced to 20 Days in South West Regional Jail for Lockdown at Massey Regional Headquarters MADISON, W.Va.-Joseph Hamsher, 22, was sentenced to twenty days in South West Regional Jail for his participation in a [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
  by Sparki

• How’s the Blog Doing?

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  I like numbers, especially when they give feedback on how we’re doing.  Something I’ve wanted to do for a while, and am now just getting around to, is post a snapshot of stats on the blog for the past 30 days.  First, a little context, and then the top posts [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:33pm EDT
  by Morgan

• MA Students Sleep-Out for 100% Clean Electricity Bill

  Posted on behalf of Dan Abrams, Boston Media Coordinator for The Leadership Campaign. 10/24 marked the International Day of Climate Action.  It was nothing short of spectacular: 4,000+ actions around the world all calling for 350PPM! However, the activism and work is not over. We in Massachusetts recognize that October 24th was [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
  by craigaltemose

• Canadian Youth Confront Parliament, Demand Action on Climate

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  Written by Maryam Adrangi and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. Cross-posted from the Understory. A group of Canadian climate change activists caused a ruckus in Canada’s Parliament yesterday. In doing so, they brought their demands for bold action on climate change directly to the country’s leaders – and they didn’t stop until they [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
  by Adrian

• Senate Champions Rock Climate Bill Hearing, Day 1

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  Cross-posted from the 1Sky Blog: www.1sky.org/blog The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held their first hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill this morning and it was a doozy! The Senate is proud of its reputation of being the world’s most deliberative deliberative body and this morning’s hearings were no exception [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:37pm EDT
  by Ben Wessel

• Live from Beantown…

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  Check out what Boston was up to on 350’s day of action.  It was kind of like a big tea party meets block party meets rally meets AWESOME young people calling for bold climate action. Plus, there are wetsuits. Posted in Act Locally, Climate Justice, Climate Policy, global warming, Political Participation, United [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:15pm EDT
  by Alisha Fowler

• ALERT: Blasting Begins on Coal River Mountain

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  An update from Coal River Mountain Watch and Appalachian Voices. You can take emergency action here. Mountaintop Removal Mining to Destroy 6,600 Acres-and Wind Potential Appalachian community advocates and environmentalists across the nation are expressing outrage that mountaintop removal coal mining operations have begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
  by Jesse Jenkins

• Appalachian Regional Commission Greeted With Guiding Words

  From Athens Rising Tide: Athens, OH- Local residents dropped a banner with the words: “Dear A.R.C; New Energy, New Jobs, New Opportunities for Appalachia= NO NEW COAL” from the Richland Avenue bridge this morning to guide the Appalachian Regional Commissions’ discussion in the right direction: new energy and new jobs for [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
  by Mattie Reitman

• International day of action heralds the emergence of a global grassroots climate movement

  Editor’s Note: Hey everybody, I wanted to share a post I wrote up for the TckTckTck campaign that I think is a reflection on how a lot of us were feeling after the 350.org international day of action. -Richard The 350.org international day of climate action this Saturday, was the second [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:41am EDT
  by Richard Graves

• Coal River Mountain: “Thus Far and No Further”

  We’ve heard and seen evidence that Massey Energy is now clearing and blasting for coal extraction on Coal River Mountain. We’ve had a lot of victories in the past few months, but this is ours and our allies line in the sand. Coal River Mountain is the symbol of our [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 2:38am EDT
  by Sparki

• Breaking: Rep. Kucinich Joins Students in Challenging New Coal Plant

  In the midst of an annual utility conference today in eastern Cleveland, Representative Dennis Kucinich joined students from across the state and their allies to urge the utility not to build a proposed dirty coal-fired power plant in Southern Ohio. Kucinich said the issue is “important enough to come here [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
  by Mattie Reitman

• Die-In at Royal Bank of Canada Includes 100 Protesters Who Oppose the Bank’s Involvement In the Tar Sands

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  Today in Ottawa, 100 concerned citizens staged mock deaths at the Royal Bank of Canada, accompanied by chanting and chalk outlines. Following a weekend of activity at Powershift Canada, the action called attention to RBC’s role as the lead financier of tar sands extraction. The action in Ottawa continues a series [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:23pm EDT
  by maryam adrangi

• DC Rising Tide:Pepco(al) under Fire for Sourcing Electricity from Coal

  DC residents with the activist group DC Rising Tide today publicly presented their demands that Pepco stop sourcing electricity from coal, and particularly coal from mountaintop removal coal mining.  The activists made their demands for renewable energy with a theatrical fight between “Pepcoal” and wind power in front of the [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:20pm EDT
  by Sparki

• We’re Building a Global Movement

  The title says it all – we’ve gone global. And it’s not just because of Saturday. I won’t even try to sum up the awesomeness that was the October 24th International Day of Climate Action. Instead, I’m thinking about how this fits into the even bigger awesomeness that is the international [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:19pm EDT
  by Kyle Gracey

• Oct 24: Most Widespread Day of Political Action in History

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  Many, many thanks to all of you at IGHIH who took part in yesterday’s International Day of Climate Action from our tired-but-psyched, humbled, and completely blown-away 350.org crew. October 24 succeeded beyond our wildest imaginations — journalists are calling it the most widespread day of political action in history. Stay tuned [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
  by jamiehenn

• 350 Carbon Neutral Online Benefit Concert for Energy Action Coalition

  Hi Everyone! I’m working with an organization called Artfulchange and we are organizing one of the over 4500 actions happening worldwide for the International Day of Climate Action coming up on October 24th. Artfulchange is an environmental non-profit that combines music and the arts with environmental action and awareness. We have launched [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
  by Jennifer Chen

• 288ppm in Amsterdam, a 350.org Action

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  “It isn’t 350, but 288ppm is better. “ Video: Ellard Vasen As the rain fell on downtown Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we reached 288 People Per Museumplein dancing the Charleston in the shape of ‘350 NU’. Translated as ‘350 Now’ it was a fun, electric action that joined over 5000 actions across the [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 2:53pm EDT
  by rvanwaarden

• 15,000 March in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for International Day of Climate Action

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  Today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, more than 15,000 young people marched to call for 350ppm, as part of the International Day of Climate Action on October 24. Here’s part of an email from one of the lead organizers of the action, Tinebeb Yohannes, cross-posted from 350.org: One of the biggest events [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
  by Phil Aroneanu

• Greenpeace: Climate Legislation More Likely to Perpetuate Fossil Fuel Economy than Spur Swift Transition to Clean Energy

  Originally at the Breakthrough Institute Climate change legislation recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now under consideration in the Senate will “succeed in perpetuating business as usual and fail to avert catastrophic climate change,” according to a new Greenpeace report quietly released yesterday. Titled “Business as Usual,” the [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:33pm EDT
  by Jesse Jenkins

• 8 Arrested on Kanawha Co. Strip Mine Resisting Mountaintop Removal

  The fun never stops in West Virginia coal country. This morning, just before dawn, four individuals chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal mining. Four more joined them on site in support roles, unfurling two banners, one reading [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
  by Sparki