Calling All Young Revolutionaries :: $5000 Fellowship Deadline Approaching

Got a big idea you’ve wanted to pursue to advance the clean energy movement? Breakthrough Generation, the youth initiative of the Breakthrough Institute, is awarding ten $5,000 Fellowships to the country’s top young organizers and thinkers.

We’re seeking highly motivated, capable, and innovative young leaders who want to pursue a campus or local clean energy project while advancing the larger movement for a $500 billion federal investment in clean energy to spark an energy revolution and win on global warming.

The deadline is this Friday, March 21

Find out more — and apply now !

The Breakthrough Institute is also offering paid Breakthrough Summer Internships. The internship takes place at the Breakthrough Institute’s main office in Oakland, CA, and involves high-level research, analysis, and writing that is substantial and substantive, both individually and in collaboration with senior Breakthrough staff. Much of this will focus on the policy, politics, and technology behind clean energy and global warming. Our interns have gone on to co-author major white papers in journals such as the Harvard Law & Policy Review, and the stipend is $300 per week. More information is available at www.thebreakthrough.org/jobs.shtml.

The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank directed by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, is working on several fronts – including political candidates, forward-thinking philanthropists, social change agents, and the youth climate movement – to advance a major federal investment in the clean energy economy. We believe that young people today are uniquely positioned to advance a more powerful movement and wish to support their efforts.

About Teryn

Teryn Norris is the founder of Breakthrough Generation, the young leaders initiative of the Breakthrough Institute, and was recently Associate Director of the Breakthrough Generation Fellows Program. Teryn previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute and American Environics, where he co-authored "Fast, Clean, Cheap: Cutting Global Warming's Gordian Knot," published in the Spring 2008 edition of the Harvard Law and Policy Review. Teryn studied political science and economics as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University. He served as president of his class and in 2006 founded and led the Hopkins Energy Action Team, a student initiative that won its campaign to achieve a new, university-wide carbon neutral energy policy. Teryn has worked as Chief Research Assistant to Dr. Steve H. Hanke, one of the world's most renowned monetary economists, as well as for the Sierra Club and Environment California, where he advocated and fundraised for the California Global Warming Solutions Act. He helped organize Power Shift 2007 and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Alternet, and he blogs at DailyKos, the Breakthrough Blog, WattHead, and ItsGettingHotInHere.

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