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PowerVote & Focus Hiring Focus the Nation is supporting PowerVote, a terrific national campaign by Energy Action to engage young people around climate change in the fall election. Please forward widely this call for participation at the PowerVote training camp in August. The deadline for applications is JULY 7th. Meanwhile, Focus is also HIRING organizers to build Focus the Nation 2009, and help save the future — based out of our office here in Portland. Check out our job ad and apply today! Thanks for the work you are doing. The Focus the Nation Team — [Click here to read all e-bulletins] FOCUS NEWS Two-Mile Challenge: Forty Percent of Car Trips are within two miles of your home: Take Clif Bar’s Two-Mile Challenge and ride or walk instead! Check it out. Nike rejoins Focus for 2009: Nike brings to Focus the Nation over a decade of business commitment to global warming solutions on a global scale. Watch for future info about our partnership to green campus athletics. Join BRITA Climate-Ride 2008!: Focus is partnering with this five day, NYC-DC cycle event next September. Check it out and watch for more info in future bulletins. The Focus the Nation Wind Turbine! Thanks to Native Energy, Focus the Nation teams can offset their projects and help build a wind turbine on a family farm in Minnesota. What Did You Teach at Focus the Nation? Help us collect educational material on global warming solutions; find out what others are up to at ClimateChangeEducation.org. The President’s Climate Commitment: Has your University or College President signed on? Donate to Focus: Stop Your Junk Mail! Sign up with 41 Pounds , and a portion of the income is donated directly to us here at Focus the Nation. New Books & Videos on Fighting Global Warming On video: Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein talk about their recent books on building the global warming solutions movement—Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction (Goodstein) and Ignition (Isham and Waage) Other recent books of note: Gary Braasch’s Earth Under Fire; and Gary and Lynn Cherry’s How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, Laurie David’s Down to Earth Guide; Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendrick’s Apollo’s Fire and Fight Global Warming Now from Step it Up. Global Warming Organizing Films: Everything’s Cool (Dan Gold and Judith Helfand); Revolution Green (Stephen Stout and Jessica Kelly) TOP
Focus the Nation is a project of the Green House Network, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization based in Lake Oswego, Oregon that neither supports nor opposes specific legislation or any candidate for political office. Global warming pollution from Focus the Nation's travel is offset by the Cool Tags program at Clif Bar, with offsets purchased from NativeEnergy.
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