Fired Up: Youth Report – First Poznan, Now Power Shift 09!

So I am very excited that the Fired Up: Youth Report segment on the International Youth Delegation at the Poznan climate talks, is live!

This was our test case to see if we could tackle TV to cover the incredible work that young people are doing all over the world to respond to global warming and to build a just and sustainable world. Guess what? It is airing March 2nd, the day the largest lobby on climate in US history will go down, along with the Capitol Climate Action.

First Poznan, next we are going to be covering Power Shift, which starts TODAY! Expect to see youth reporters filming all over the DC Convention Center, as this story is too hot for just words or to leave to the traditional media. Come say hello and tell us your Power Shift story!

However, check out our segment on the incredible alliance between threatened island nations and the international youth delegations that emerged at the Poznan climate talks. Power Shift is happening in the US of A, but it is becoming the global story with Power Shifts happening in Australia, the UK, and who knows where next! Take a look!

The Maldives/Youth Segment starts at 12:39.

For a little more information about where this will be shown and who helped put this together, below the fold is some information about LinkTV’s EarthFocus.

The Stats:
Earth Focus is broadcast to over 31 million U.S. homes receiving satellite, 6 million cable TV households and is available to millions more worldwide on the Internet (www.linktv.org/earthfocus). Link TV is also carried on many U.S. college campuses. Based on a review of other independent media outlets, it appears that Link has the largest audience of any independent print, radio or TV outlet in the U.S. Five million adults watch LinkTV regularly, on average 2.5 hours a week.

Earth Focus is also available on YouTube, Apple iTunes video podcasts, the Participatory Culture Foundation’s Miro Internet TV platform and on Empivot.com. During the past 6 months, Earth Focus videos were accessed by iTunes 104,539 times, by Miro 116,621 times and 688,924 times by other video feed services.

The Team:
As to whom, Shadia Wood (one of the awesome editors of this blog) pulled together the team that flew to and filmed in Poznan, Poland, Christine Irvine (another one of our rocking editors) did the lion’s share of the filming, along with the Indian Youth Climate Network and Jon Warnow (I did a little, too!), and Raisa Scriabine put the whole episode together. We really all owe her so much, as she is the force behind EarthFocus and a strong supporter of youth produced environmental journalism. Sean McCall edited our cobbled together clips into a TV segment and Alexander K. Smith gave his voice to the piece.

The Funders!
This segment was funded by an award from Focus the Nation and Clif Bar’s Project Slingshot, which are both awesome organizations that do newsworthy things in their own right, check em out!

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.