This past weekend approximately 8,000 student leaders from campuses around the country descended on Washington, DC for the biennial Powershift Leaders...
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 06.19.2011
Let's make this Earth Week not just a celebration of the planet, but also a time of action. Let's use this momentum to ask ourselves if we can do more to help open eyes, change minds and inspire action from others.
HuffingtonPost.com | Corbin Hiar | Posted 06.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore and author-turned-climate-activist Bill McKibben were among the big names headlining the Power Shift envir...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 06.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Ai...
Bill McKibben | Posted 06.18.2011
The environmental movement has spent the last 20 years pleading with Congress. It's like pleading with the cashier to address your complaint. Sooner or later, you have to take your problem to the manager.
Van Jones | Posted 06.18.2011
Despite their desire to contribute to this country's greatness, Millennials may be the first generation in decades to face worse economic prospects than our parents and even grandparents.
Posted 06.16.2011
From Brad Johnson, The Wonk Room: In a passionate keynote address, green jobs leader Van Jones exhorted the 10,000 youth climate activists at the P...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org | Posted 06.15.2011
Power Shift 2011, the biennial national summit of the youth climate movement, begins this Friday in Washington, DC. The challenges facing the Millenni...
Rocky Kistner | Posted 06.14.2011
On a picture perfect spring day, Cherri Foytlin marched across the Memorial Bridge into Washington, completing a 1200 mile journey to raise awareness about the health impacts of the BP oil disaster.
Karen Talavera | Posted 11.17.2011
If there's any theme emerging for 2011, it's getting pretty obvious that this year will be about alignment and congruency. Alignment with our truth and our higher selves.
Betsy Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011
Powershift Australia held an event today that was a celebration of humanity and the beauty we can create with a serious message about the fate of our planet.
Billy Parish | Posted 05.25.2011
The demand to get involved building a greener, more sustainable future is there, but the supply of opportunities has not been.
Jake Brewer | Posted 05.25.2011
Savvy Millennial leaders are using new tools like Twitter to amplify their support of bold climate legislation to their peers and elected officials across the country.
Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
Global warming, as a phrase, has become a cliché that has lost its usefulness.
Democracy Now | Posted 05.25.2011
Democracy Now put together this great video piece interviewing a diverse group of attendees at last week's PowerShift conference, showing students who...
Energy Collective | Jesse Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not sure if EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson or Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have ever dreamt of being rock stars. If so, their dreams alm...
A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Johnny Rook has become my friend and an inspiration. We will never meet in person but we have met through the web. Johnny Rook is a person well worth knowing.
AP | BRIAN WESTLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Several thousand demonstrators on Monday urged Congress to pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gases, and they targeted the gover...
A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
As the DC area is hit with a major snowstorm, 10,000 people are descending on Congress to lobby on climate change as part of Powershift 09.
Benjamin Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011
This weekend, 10,000 environmentally activated young people from around the country will amass in Washington, DC to urge our government to get serious about clean energy and the economy.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
Youth organizers have planned a major conference and demonstration for this weekend in Washington, D.C. The event, called PowerShift, is also intended...
Dan Beckmann | Posted 06.21.2011