With the wrap-up of Power Shift, youth activists are getting the attention they deserve – testifying before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and being featured on Treehugger, Discovery Networks, and Sierra Club Radio. Oh yeah, and our own Jessy Tolkan destroying Pat Buchanan on Hardball. Post any more media hits you have in the comments!
Treehugger:
“Ring, Ring,” Elizabeth Martin-Perera, a Climate Policy Specialist with the NRDC’s Climate Center picks up the phone. It’s an acquaintance at BP. The voice on the other end asks, “What is this Power Shift thing that I keep hearing about. Is it something I should know about? Should I be concerned?” Powershift: Save the Polar Bears, Save the Humans
Discovery Channel:
Young People bring Green Demands to Capitol Hill. See it here
MTV:
Thousands of students from across the country gather in Washington, D.C., to shift attention to climate change and other green causes. See it here.
Sierra Club Radio
Sierra Club Radio host Orli Cotel is featuring a special show on “Youth and the Environment.” The radio show interviews 17-year-old activists Q’ Orianka Kilcher and Erica Fernandez, winners of this year’s Brower Youth Award and Kim Teplitzky from Power Shift 07, the largest youth climate conference that took place this past weekend in Washington D.C. Also featured is Sierra Magazine’s list of Top 10 “green” colleges and universities with Sierra Club’s Jennifer Hattam. Download and listen to it yourself!
NPR has a great story on Power Shift, and addresses Thomas Friedman’s concerns about the “Quiet Generation.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15994474
This is great. I hope after a week or so Powershift sends out an email to everyone that attended with all the press links together – it’s hard to keep track!
Yeah, a comprehensive email would be really good…when you get this much positive media it is hard to keep track