Climate Citizens
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In Seattle, rallying ’round the needle
Scott Cooper, sustainability coordinator for EOS Alliance in Seattle, wants all his fellow Emerald City denizens to join him at the Space Needle this Saturday for International Climate Action Day. 350.orgWhy? Cooper offers up a top ten reasons: 10. Hang out at the fountain with family, friends, and neighbors 9. Show the world that Seattle […]
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67 Senators in play on climate bill
Photo courtesy KouK’s via FlickrOkay, it may not exactly be an elephant stampede, but there is real movement on the climate bill by key swing Senators, as E&E Daily makes clear in an excellent new analysis, “On road to 60, Senate swells with fence sitters.” They count 31 “yes” votes, 11 “probably yes,” and 24 […]
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Groups use 350’s big day to fight cap-and-trade
Courtesy 350reasons.org350.org is taking a big-tent approach to activism on its International Day of Climate Action this Saturday, inviting anyone who wants to help to join a climate-change demonstration, or create one of their own. That open invitation means not everyone will be pushing the same message. In fact, a trio of groups will use […]
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Get psyched for the Day of Climate Action — with videos!
This Saturday, Oct. 24, is the International Day of Climate Action. You’re all geared up to join an event in your hometown or ‘hood, right? Here are a few videos to get you even more pumped up. 350.org, which is sponsoring the day, gives us a sneak preview of the animations that will splash across Times Square […]
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Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Lindsey GrahamSen. Lindsey Graham has stepped up to become the leading Republican advocate of a bipartisan climate bill. In a New York Times op-ed on Oct. 11, Graham joined with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to put forward a framework for climate legislation that they say can pass Congress and become “the blueprint for a clean-energy […]
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1Sky looks to Twitter for climate movement’s next rallying cry
Here at Grist we’re fans of (at least) two things: Climate action A snappy call to get people’s bums off the couch to make that happen Lucky for us, our buddies at 1Sky are working to bring about these two things with their 1Climate, 1Tweet contest. It’s a campaign to purge Twitter of annoying climate […]
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Day of Climate Action shows power of web organizing. Join us!
Bill McKibben and Chip Giller want you to get pumped up for the International Day of Climate Action. When Grist was launched 10 years ago, a key idea behind it was that the web could be used to spread the news about what’s really happening across the planet. Turned out to be true. Now […]
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Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) [UPDATED]
Lisa Murkowski Sen. Lisa Murkowski is open to voting for a cap-and-trade climate bill if it would aggressively boost nuclear power and domestic oil and gas drilling, she said in a C-SPAN interview aired on Oct. 18. “Count me as one of those who will keep my mind open as we move forward,” she said. […]
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What will you do for International Day of Climate Action on Oct. 24?
Get involved in the fight against climate change. Got plans for Saturday, Oct. 24? Join up with climate-concerned citizens around the globe for the first-ever International Day of Climate Action, to demand that world leaders get moving in the fight against climate change. More than 3,000 events in 170 countries are in the works, many […]
