MTV has a hot news story on the Campus Climate Challenge and the recent week of action. The clip shows great footage of the Billionaires for Coal rally to protest Merrill Lynch’s investment in a company that plans to build ELEVEN new coal power plants in my home state of Texas. The story also includes interviews with a range of young people talking about climate change and why its crucial step it up and make their voices heard.
View the clip here.
MTV is also an important partner for the Challenge with the Break the Addiction Challenge, an awesome contest in which students can win cool prizes for greening their campuses.
A brief word about me: I am new to the Its Getting Hot in Here scene, but not so new to blogging If interested, you can check out my personal blog Bloggernista. I am the new communications director for Energy Action and the Challenge and looking forward to working with all of y’all on ringing the alarm about climate change. I am a former associate field director for the Human Rights Campaign, have worked on a number of political and ballot campaigns and helped to organize a national march on Washington for LGBT equality.
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It’s appalling to me that Merrill is investing in coal. I recently interviewed an SRI Consultant over at RBC Dain (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/14/122351/289). Their company has invested and financed 26 wind farms throughout North America, U.K., France and Ireland. They have also been supporting green power generation since 2002. That is forward-thinking! Merrill, Goldman and others really have the opportunity to step up the the challenge and they are falling way short. Abby Joseph Cohen (from Goldman) even said at the sustainability conference at Earth Island Institute that they are doing far, far less than they could be.
BTW, Welcome on board, Michael!