BT Generation Featured as “Breakthrough Technology”

Breakthrough Generation was just featured as a “Breakthrough Technology” on the technology news site, JumpIntoTomorrow.com:

“Breakthrough Generation (BTG) – the youth leadership initiative of a progressive think tank called the Breakthrough Institute is advancing an innovative form of political organizing it calls “intellaction,” centered on the power of cutting-edge ideas, multidisciplinary analysis, and modern communication and information technology. BTG is a new organization headquartered in Oakland, CA with two young directors and fourteen fellows, who were each selected through a rigorous application process.”

About Teryn

Teryn Norris is a leading advocate for a major federal investment project in clean energy. As a Research Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute and American Environics, he co-authored "Fast, Clean, Cheap: Cutting Global Warming's Gordian Knot," a white paper published in the Spring 2008 edition of the Harvard Law and Policy Review. He is co-author of the National Energy Education Act proposal, which has been featured in Mother Jones, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, and Congressional testimony. Teryn has worked as Chief Research Assistant to Dr. Steve H. Hanke, one of the world's top monetary economists, as well as for the Sierra Club and Environment California, where he advocated and fundraised for the California Global Warming Solutions Act. Teryn is the Founder of Breakthrough Generation, the young leaders initiative of the Breakthrough Institute. Teryn studied political science and economics as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as Class President. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Alternet, and he regularly blogs at DailyKos, the Breakthrough Blog, WattHead, and ItsGettingHotInHere.

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