Richard Graves, is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He is currently the blogger/online campaigner for the Global Campaign for Climate Action (www.tcktcktck.org) and the founder of Fired Up Media (www.firedupmedia.com). He served as the Editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here – Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and as a Program Director for Americans for Informed Democracy, communications coordinator for the SustainUS youth delegation to the UN climate negotiations in Bali, and the New Media Fellow for the Energy Action Action Coalition. He is a recipient of the International Youth Foundation’s Global Fellowship for 2008, was a semi-finalist for Echoing Green, and received the Project Slingshot award. He graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in Asian and Environmental History, after founding the student group MacCARES and winning campaigns around green building, renewable energy investment, and energy conservation. He thinks that young people can use new media to create the revolutionary change necessary to solve global warming and has told people that at the World Bank, UN, CNN, and other stuffy institutions.

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