Die-In at Royal Bank of Canada Includes 100 Protesters Who Oppose the Bank’s...
Royal Bank of Canada Die-In 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...
View ArticleBetween Rocks and Hard Places
Stop Everything Rebecca McNeil and Darcy Higgins October 27, 2009 After the flash mob that appeared in Parliament yesterday, disrupting question period to call immediate attention to climate change, we...
View ArticleThe Power Shift Regional Summits are over, but we are not!
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...
View ArticleYouth Climate Movement Grows Up… In a Good Way
I went to the White House today, as one of 150 youth climate leaders invited to take part in the Clean Energy Forum. Let me repeat that: youth activists were invited to discuss climate policy with 4...
View ArticleAwesome COP15 Video by Australian Youth!
This is a great update on the first day of COP15, brought to you by the folks who masterminded the Australia Powershift 09 Flashdance Video (also shown below): This piece of art is perhaps one of the...
View ArticleSolution in the Wake of Copenhagen — If Governments Can’t, People Can
Young clean energy & climate companions, The following is an enlightening piece from the Huffington Post by David Gershon, one of our movement’s older-in-body-but-young-at-heart visionary thinkers...
View ArticleTop 10 Youth Climate Moments of the ’00s
This morning I spent some time reflecting on the most memorable moments of the past decade. My own roots as a climate activist began at age 20 when I had the privilege of attending a Student Climate...
View ArticleHappy New Year, Welcome Back: Seven Proposed Next Steps for the U.S. Climate...
This post is meant to kick off an actionable dialogue about where the U.S. climate movement is headed in the new year. Please use the comment form to suggest additions, flesh out points, propose...
View ArticlePowder River Basin: The New Energy Frontier?
This morning, Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar announced plans to open up 7,400 acres of federal land in Wyoming’s coal-rich Powder River Basin for lease to coal mining companies, including Peabody...
View ArticlePower Shift: To Whom and From Whom Pt3
by Ryan Wishart and R. Jamil Jonna (authors are doctoral students in Sociology at the University of Oregon). Two years ago we went into Power Shift with a lot of hope. The keynote speakers gave...
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