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"Everybody in America should have a stake in legislation that can transform our energy system into one that’s far more efficient, far cleaner, and provide energy independence for America." -President Barack Obama speaking at MIT on Friday, Oct. 23rd image courtesy of Bio jobs blog. Read More... |
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This Week from the Global Observatory Introducing a new FTN media partner: Global Observatory. GO will be providing us with the unique international perspective in the leadup to COP 15. Find out more at http://www.globalobservatory.net/. Sit back and enjoy some good reads! Cutting carbon makes sense for your profit (and the planet) |
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Spearfish Bike Cooperative: Focus Roots Fellow Makes Change By YouthNoise Blogger Trina Chi Meet Jeremy Smith. He's a cyclist, a community builder, a German-cookie aficionado, and the winner of the 2009 Focus Roots Fellowship. To be fair, Jeremy didn't win the fellowship per se; he earned it through his incredible dedication to both the bicycle and his community. Along with co-founder John Williams and a crew of volunteers, Jeremy is building a community bicycle cooperative in Spearfish, South Dakota. Jeremy was born in Montana but grew up in Spearfish. A number of years ago, Jeremy randomly met a bicycle-based traveling circus and spent the next year touring China and Hong Kong on his bike while honing his unicycle, tight rope, juggling and stilt-walking skills. [Note to self: I want to run away with that circus, too. That journey sounds nothing short of AWESOME.] From there, Jeremy's interest in bikes has continued to grow. |
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Launching Off- Focus Roots Fellows get moving in Navajo Nation Crossposted fromhttp://rethinkdinepower.wordpress.com/ Our mission:
Why in the world did two white girls from the East Coast decide to do this? Erin: I think what has led me to moving out here specifically for this project was because I really wanted to be able to create a space where diverse, indigenous communities can dictate what they want their energy and economy to look like not the large outside, U.S. corporations. Read More... |
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Former 08 Roots Fellow Talks Climate for the State Department! Richard Graves is a former FTN Roots Fellow, and current blogger and online campaigner with the Global Campaign for Climate Action, project director and founder of Fired Up Media, an associate producer for LinkTV’s EarthFocus, and a contributing editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here. Richard has used his amazing talents, and the empowerment gained through the Roots Fellowship to catapult himself into a position of leadership in the Climate Movement. Now he find's himself with the amazing opportunity to spread the climate movement's message to embassies across the world! Check out Richard's State Department post here, and read Richard's thoughts on the post here. Read More... |
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"On the Road" from Climate Ride 09!
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