Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on July 4th, 2008
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)
from: <eban@lclark.edu>
July 3, 2008
Dear friends,
Focus the Nation is supporting PowerVote, a terrific national campaign by Energy Action to engage young people around climate change in the fall election. Please forward widely this call for participation at the PowerVote training camp in August. The deadline for applications is JULY 7th.
Meanwhile, Focus is also HIRING organizers to build Focus the Nation 2009, and help save the future- based out of our office here in Portland. Check out our job ad and apply today!
Along with Hunter Lovins, Winona LaDuke, Steve Schneider and others, Eban will be speaking at the Rothbury music festival outside of Grand Rapids this weekend—the festival is sponsoring an exciting “think-tank” focused on global warming solutions.
Thanks for the work you are doing.
Eban Goodstein, Project Director
Chungin Chug, Communications Director
POWERVOTE — please forward widely
Dear Educators,
We need your help in finding amazing young student leaders who are interested in having the chance to build a strong set of organizing and campaign skills and who are interesting in playing a pivotal role in our nation’s historic upcoming election. Last fall we all came together to make Power Shift 2007 a reality - over 6,000 young people came to Washington DC for a life-changing weekend to learn and take action on the defining issue of our generation, global warming. They listened to thought provoking panels, sat-in on informative workshops and stormed Capitol Hill for the largest lobby day on global warming ever. It took all of us to make this happen, and we all contributed in our own way, from advising students, organizing campus groups or just passing the word on. We want to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you, and also ask you for your help as we set-off on our next great big endeavor.
With the election season in full swing there are huge opportunities to have discussions with young people about global warming, our future and civic engagement - that’s why we’ve launched Power Vote http://www.powervote.org), a national campaign to turn up the volume on climate change in the elections and engage millions of young people on the issue. Between now and November, we’ll be out on the campaign trail asking the candidates what their plan is on global warming, educate young people on candidates positions on the issue, and continue to build a broad and diverse movement to fight for a clean and just energy future.
We are currently looking for young leaders who would be interested in working on the Power Vote campaign, and we would love your help in identifying these people. To prepare them for the fall and beyond, the Energy Action Coalition is hosting a MEGA training camp lead by the exceptional trainers at Wellstone Action. Selected students and youth will get to participate in a life-changing intensive five-day training, which will equip them with many essential skills to organize and strategically campaign for change. We have registration fee-waivers and travel scholarships available. We do not want cost to be a barrier for anyone. You can find out more about the training here: http://energyactioncoalition.org/powervo…
We are currently looking for applicants and it would be a great help if you could pass the information below to any young person who you think would be interested, and pass it onto listservs and other forums. The application deadline is July 7th, so please spread the word soon.
Thanks again!
Arthur, Brianna, Madeline, Ragini, Jessy, Kassie, Whit, and the whole Energy Action team
Focus News
Forty Percent of Car Trips are within two miles of your home: Take Clif Bar’s Two-Mile Challenge and ride or walk instead! Check it out.
Nike rejoins Focus for 2009. Nike brings to Focus the Nation over a decade of business commitment to global warming solutions on a global scale. Watch for future info about our partnership to green campus athletics.
Join BRITA Climate-Ride 2008! Focus is partnering with this four day, NYC-DC cycle event this September. Join the Focus the Nation team.
The Focus the Nation Wind Turbine! Thanks to Native Energy, Focus the Nation teams can offset their projects and help build a wind turbine on a family farm in Minnesota .
What Did You Teach at Focus the Nation? Help us collect educational material on global warming solutions; find out what others are up to at ClimateChangeEducation.org.
The President’s Climate Commitment: Has your University or College President signed on?
Donate to Focus—Stop Your Junk Mail! Sign up with 41 Pounds, and a portion of the income is donated directly to us here at Focus the Nation.
New Books & Videos on Fighting Global Warming
On video: Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein talk about their recent books on building the global warming solutions movement– Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction (Goodstein) and Ignition (Isham and Waage)
Other recent books of note: Gary Braasch’s Earth Under Fire; and Gary and Lynn Cherry’s How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, Laurie David’s Down to Earth Guide; Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendrick’s Apollo’s Fire and Fight Global Warming Now from Step it Up.
Global Warming Organizing Films: Everything’s Cool (Dan Gold and Judith Helfand); Revolution Green (Stephen Stout and Jessica Kelly)
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Eban Goodstein
Project Director
Focus the Nation
info at focusthenation.org
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