Comments on: 84 CAMPUS CLIMATE VICTORIES http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2006/12/01/84-campus-climate-victories/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anatomy of An Addiction at It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2006/12/01/84-campus-climate-victories/#comment-44720 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:19:18 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/84-campus-climate-victories/#comment-44720 [...] While the United States continues to spend billions of dollars each year to subsidize the coal, nuclear, oil and gas industries with relatively little investment in clean, renewable energy, countries around the world are beginning to embrace clean energy and pollution-reduction schemes. Globally, wind energy has now become the world’s fastest growing energy source. In the U.S., hundreds of businesses, schools, and communities are making significant investments in energy efficiency, solar and wind power. America’s addiction to dirty energy sources has been allowed to persist largely because those bearing the brunt of this burden have traditionally held little clout in the U.S. political system: poor people, people of color, and young people. Fortunately, that paradigm can and has changed in important points in our nation’s history. In October of 2004, by declaring their independence from dirty energy and committing to action for clean alternatives, more than 27,000 U.S. youth took a bold step towards derailing a very powerful set of corporate interests and enabling a clean, renewable energy future. Since that date, students and youth have launched campaigns to transform more than 450 high schools, colleges, and universities through the Campus Climate Challenge, a campaign that in 2006 alone, helped to win a range of clean energy and climate commitments at more than 84 institutions. For nearly a century, the energy policies that determine how we power our lives in the United States have led us down an increasingly more dangerous road. Federal tax breaks and subsidies for the mature, yet highly volatile industries of coal, oil and gas, and nuclear power have propped up technologies that would otherwise have since become obsolete. These technologies have fueled international conflict, compromised the health of our communities, and irreparably disrupted the global climate. For decades, clean energy and efficiency technologies have existed that can produce more jobs, protect the environment and public health, and enable a potent international response to global warming. [...]

]]> By: Phil Mitchell http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2006/12/01/84-campus-climate-victories/#comment-44719 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:32:54 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/84-campus-climate-victories/#comment-44719 Billy,

I’m going to get this stuff posted to our site in a wiki where it can be continually expanded by our (growing) community of climate activists. It is inspiring to see all this stuff in aggregate…….. I’ll have it up (hopefully) by the end of the week at 2People.

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