Watch out polluters: over 10,000 youth leaders descended on Washington, DC this weekend for Power Shift 2011, a conference to build a grassroots movement to take on the fossil fuel industry and push for clean energy and climate action.
"While they're stuck on stupid in DC, your generation is rising," said green jobs visionary, Van Jones, on Friday night.
Proud, diverse, and organized, the thousands of students at Power Shift are laying the ground work for hard-hitting campaigns across the country.
On Monday, thousands of students will join movement leaders like 350.org founder Bill McKibben and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka to protest polluters outside the White House and march on the headquarters of the US Chamber of Commerce and BP.
It's not too late to join the rally. Click here for more information.
"This city looks clean and sparkling," said McKibben. "But no: this city is as polluted as Beijing. But instead of coal pollution, it's money pollution."
Power Shift 2011 was organized by the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of 50 youth lead environmental and social justice organizations.
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CBS or ha ha FOX we are so loseing our Democracy thank you HP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srx30lxH9Rw
Thanks to all of these real patriots. It is very difficult to stop the PR muscle of the most powerful industry in history. But we can. And we will.
Here's Bill McKibben's excellent Op-Ed on the climate denial machine:
http://www.thenation.com/article/attack-climate-change-science
In considering the energy productivity of land, wind turbines are in a class by themselves. For example, an acre of land in northern Iowa planted in corn can yield $1,000 worth of ethanol per year. That same acre used to site a wind turbine can produce $300,000 worth of electricity per year. This helps explain why investors find wind farms so attractive.
Impressive though U.S. wind energy growth is, the expansion now under way in China is even more so. China has enough onshore harnessable wind energy to raise its current electricity consumption 16-fold. Today, most of China’s 26,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity come from 50- to 100-megawatt wind farms. Beyond the many other wind farms of that size that are on the way, China’s new Wind Base program is creating seven wind mega-complexes of 10 to 38 gigawatts each in six provinces (1 gigawatt equals 1,000 megawatts). When completed, these complexes will have a generating capacity of more than 130 gigawatts. This is equivalent to building one new coal plant per week for two and a half years.
http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2011/wotech9_ss2
For many years, a small handful of countries dominated growth in wind power, but this is changing as the industry goes global, with more than 70 countries now developing wind resources. Between 2000 and 2010, world wind electric generating capacity increased at a frenetic pace from 17,000 megawatts to nearly 200,000 megawatts.
Measured by share of electricity supplied by wind, Denmark is the leading nation at 21 percent. Three north German states now get 40 percent or more of their electricity from wind. For Germany as a whole, the figure is 8 percent—and climbing. And in the state of Iowa, enough wind turbines came online in the last few years to produce up to 20 percent of that state’s electricity.
In terms of sheer volume, the United States leads the world with 35,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity, followed by China and Germany with 26,000 megawatts each. Texas, long the leading U.S. oil-producing state, is now also the nation’s leading generator of electricity from wind. It has 9,700 megawatts of wind generating capacity online, 370 megawatts more under construction, and a huge amount under development. If all of the wind farms projected for 2025 are completed, Texas will have 38,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity—the equivalent of 38 coal-fired power plants. This would satisfy roughly 90 percent of the current residential electricity needs of the state’s 25 million people.
http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2011/wotech9_ss2
In a separate incident I heard some people were arrested for a protest at a bp station that prevented people from accessing the pumps. From the video I saw online it didn't look like an intelligent way to go about it.
I'm all in favor of using domestic energy like drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants, if that makes you feel better :)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.abstract
What is the world coming to?
Fox zombies are on remote.
Join the 350 Movement and add your voice to the Climate Change Debate!
Thank you Huff Post for lending your time and space to this very Important Issue that we are facing today.
my best to all,
Scotty
RLTW
Too bad Obama has screwed their futures by promoting DIRTY natural gas fracking and issuing more oil platform permits than Bush!