Washington Post recently offered advice on how to meet eco-minded friends and listed CCAN as a hotspot!
The best way to meet the hottest, most awesome CCANers in your area right now is to join one of our birddogging packs. We’re scouring the entire region for candidate events and making a clean-energy scene. Continue reading
If the success of Saturday’s Green Jobs event in Cambridge was any indication, the future of climate and green energy action on the Eastern Shore is looking very bright, and we should all be very proud of what we accomplished. We got a mayor (Victoria Jackson-Stanley) and a congressional candidate (Frank Kratovil) talking earnestly about the building the green economy; we’ve developed a network of local businesses and activists, and spread our message to the broader Dorchester and Talbot communities with a big write up in the local papers.
But it’s important to remember that Saturday was just the beginning. On September 27th we proved that we can capture the attention of both the media and our local leaders
A Green Jobs Road Show, starring CCAN’s Maryland Team
It’s 8:30 on Saturday morning, and I’m in the car with Ethan and en route to Baltimore. Continue reading
We have all become armored against advertising and the claims 
of “save $26” (or more) on a CFL package are hard to believe. In addition, in our culture, we focus on the cost to buy (CTB) rather than the cost to own (CTO). Thus, in a weird perversion of Benjamin Franklin, we focus on the $0.99 purchase price rather than the cost through the years that we might use something. These factors combine to make it difficult for most Americans to pursue energy efficiency choices, such as CFLs.
This reality of condominium structures worsens this situation. With shared utility costs (electricity, water, gas), but individual owners controlling purchases within their own units, it is hard to capture savings opportunities. This is an example of a very common Catch-22, where the person “buying” something doesn’t directly pay for the “cost” of running it. It is time to break through the Catch-22 and arrive at sensible solutions, to work for real solutions to real problems.
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Students at Morgan State University know exactly where to find theirs. Along with community members they successfully got their US Congressional Representative, Elijah Cumming to sign onto the 1Sky platform. Then the following week they heard Rep. Cumming was coming to a rally on campus. They sprung into action, slapped on their Power Vote stickers, summoned some courage, and asked if they could “adopt” him.
Check it out:
The “Adopt a Congressperson” campaign is a program advanced in part by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. Its time that we all “adopt” our elected officials and tell them to give us the clean and just energy future our generation demands. Continue reading
Our own dear Ethan Nuss, doing his Power Vote magic:
Now “Power Vote,” a national non-partisan effort spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, seeks to elevate the issue of climate change in the 2008 election by mobilizing one million young “climate voters.” To do this, the Energy Action Coalition and its more than forty partner organizations are organizing young people across the United States to pledge their vote “for clean and just energy.”
Watch the real training video here:
Green For All President Van Jones to Join DC Councilmembers, Anacostia Families to Demand Green Jobs Now! DC Event One of Hundreds Planned Nationwide to Highlight Economic Benefits of Transitioning to Clean Energy.
Green For All President Van Jones, community groups and DC elected officials will join Anacostia families Saturday, September 27th to call for green jobs now! The District stands to benefit tremendously from the emerging green jobs movement, and the local event aims to educate and empower DC families to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the transition to clean energy.
The event is part of the National Day of Action for Green Jobs, a day when thousands of citizens from across the nation will get together to show our leaders that we are ready for green jobs now! The DC event will feature a morning service project, a rally and an educational fair and is focused on low-income residents, ex-offenders and the faith-based communities in DC’s Ward 8.
WHAT: "Get Going, Get Green: Green Jobs Now" rally and jobs fair in Anacostia
WHEN: September 27th 2008 Clean-up Project 9:00am – 11:00am Green-Collar Jobs, Health and Community Fair 12:00pm – 4:00pm
SPEAKERS: Van Jones, Founder and President of Green For All Councilmember Marion Barry, Ward 8 Councilmember Councilmember Mary Cheh, Ward3 Councilmember Reverend Anthony Motley, President of the Jobs Coalition Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, US Congresswoman from DC And more…
WHERE: Bethlehem Baptist Church 2458 Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20020 Bethlehem Baptist Church is directly across from Anacostia Metro Station (Green line)
WHO: We Campaign, Green For All, 1Sky, the Ward 8 Environmental Council, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Jobs Coalition, Serve Nation, and Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light.
Learn more at: http://events.greenjobsnow.com/greenforall/events/show/5174
In an interview with John Stewart, Bill Clinton says that we should have been investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency to create jobs and wealth.
Let’s do it now! Join us on Saturday to demand green jobs now!
UPDATE: More detailed notes from Gore’s speech here>>
In a fiery speech made today at the Clinton Global Initiative, Al Gore calls again on the youth to engage in civil disobedience to stop coal plants from being built.
This is a crisis that is happening NOW. Scientists around the world are practically screaming from the rooftops to stop it Continue reading