Youth Climate Activists Featured on House Select Committee, Discovery Channel, MTV, Treehugger, and Sierra Club Radio

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!

About Richard

Richard Graves is the blogmaster for It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and served as the New Media Fellow for the Energy Action Coalition. He helps over a hundred youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. Richard graduated from Macalester College after winning campaigns for green building, green roofing, renewable energy investment, and energy conservation. When he isn't organizing against global warming, he likes to make Italian, Mexican, and Japanese food, read books, and to sculpt.

3 Responses to “Youth Climate Activists Featured on House Select Committee, Discovery Channel, MTV, Treehugger, and Sierra Club Radio”

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1 Juliana Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

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
2 David M. Nov 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

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!
3 Amy Ortiz Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Yeah, a comprehensive email would be really good…when you get this much positive media it is hard to keep track

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