Nancy Pelosi: “80% by 2050″ « It’s Getting Hot In Here

I’m sitting here listening to US Representative Markey getting everyone on their feet at Power Shift. It’s been an amazing weekend so far. Markey just told us that “we are right and they [corporations] are wrong on every issue.” We also heard from one of my favorite bands, Here’s to the Long Haul, telling us to “drop out and rise up” (although, I’d encourage you just to rise up & maybe drop out ;), and hundreds of us were dancing our hearts out. Evon Peter, surrounded by around 20 other indigenous youth, inspired us all to fight the root causes of climate change. And, as Markey asked for our support on the energy bill, we asked him loudly “WE WANT MORE.” We chanted “80 by 2050″ to Markey and Pelosi, and as Nancy Pelosi left the stage she said that we need more and we need 80% by 2050. Let’s take that message with green jobs and no coal back to congress on Monday!

About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

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