As Kate Sheppard from Grist puts it: Some 10,000 young people will be descending on Washington, D.C., from Feb. 27 to March 2 for the Power Shift 2009 conference, where they’ll be organizing to put pressure on political leaders to take action on climate change. On the last day of the event, they’re planning a […]
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Just because we have Obama doesn’t mean we don’t need to take action on climate change
Back in December, when it became clear that President-elect Obama would name the physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, Climate Progress blogger Joseph Romm, a former energy official in the Clinton administration, applauded the move. Joe wrote that Chu was a great pick, most especially because Chu “isn’t fooled by clean coal claptrap. Earlier […]
An invitation to illegally occupy a coal power plant from Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry
Bill McKibben sent me this note over the weekend and asked me to share it with you. Thoughts? Plans to attend? Dear Friends, There are moments in a nation’s—and a planet’s—history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, […]