New Focus the Nation website and Poster Contest $100 prize!
Jennifer Berman
- HSU Focus the Nation is gearing up! Check out the newly designed FTN website, with more features - all you K-12 and CR teachers out there, check it out: www.focusthenation.org. See the latest FTN newsletter, below.
- We have a poster contest going: $100.00 for the winning poster art! Deadline Friday, November 16th!
http://groups.google.com/group/hsufocusthenation/web/poster-contest-100-prize
- Come to our meetings, Thursdays 7 pm, Nelson Hall 113, HSU
To the Greatest Generation,
Focus the Nation is changing history. Thank you. With your hard work, we have become the biggest national teach-in in US history. Still 90 days out, we have already blown by our goal of one thousand schools and other institutions signed on. Your leadership has created a powerful movement that is changing the direction of this country.
Make sure that the four components of Focus the Nation will succeed at your event:
The National Teach-in: On January 31st , thousands of students on every campus, millions of students nationwide, participate in workshops and panels, brainstorming global warming solutions. Are you with us? Are your faculty supporting you? Ask ten, twenty, fifty faculty to stand up as educators on behalf of your future. They will say yes. To make this happen, start with the sample teach-in.
Green Democracy: Campus to Congress. Tell top decision-makers in this country about solutions. Invite every US senator and congressperson to engage in person. If they can’t be there physically, then they will face a student audience via a video-chat. Focus the Nation is working with leaders in the House of Representatives to make this happen, in conjunction with their efforts to green the congress. The face-to-face, intergenerational dialogue of Green Democracy will move America to confront this civilizational challenge.
Choose Your Future. Vote on the top five solutions to global warming. Proposed solutions range from a coal moratorium, to large scale renewables investment, to initiatives to strengthen forests for carbon storage. Choose the Future is the place for serious discussion about how to achieve what science and justice demand. The week leading up to January 31st, you vote, and your Focus team delivers the results to your congressional office. Every political leader in the country will hear your voice. Join the discussion today!
The 2% Solution: A national, interactive webcast, airing live the evening of January 30th, featuring Stanford climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, and green jobs pioneer Van Jones. Show the webcast to launch your teach-in. Screen it at your high school, faith group, civic organization, or at a house party. Our goal—10,000 screenings and a determination TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING.
With these four components, together we will Focus the Nation.
We are writing from Powershift here in DC, with 6,000 youth leaders determined to change America. The energy is electrifying. And now these young people are heading home to build Focus the Nation. In your lifetimes, collectively you will rewire the entire planet with clean energy technologies, create tens of millions of jobs, lift billions of people out of poverty—creating a just and prosperous world. With your optimism, and your grace, and your wisdom, you will change the future. And then you will become, truly, the greatest generation.
Jerry Brown, former Governor and now California Attorney General, will head up our organizing call this Wednesday at noon eastern. Join Governor Brown as he shares his views on the historic moment in which we are living, and then follow up with information sharing and organizing ideas (Call details below)
Eban will be leading a Focus the Nation workshop in Cambridge (11/15). Thanks for the work you are doing.
Eban Goodstein, Project Director
Chungin Chung, Communications Director
FOCUS PHONE-IN Join us for the next half-an-hour conference call to share information and respond to questions. Wednesday, November 7th, at noon Eastern, 9 Pacific Time. Calls will be the first and third Wednesday of every month, at that time, so mark your calendars! Call in to 1-218-339-7800, passcode 1312008.
VIDEOS!
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.
Books for the movement: Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein talk about their recent books on building the global warming solutions movement.
Van Jones, Mike Tidwell, and citizen activists put their bodies on the line at the Bush “Major Emitters” summit last month.
Focus News:
Re:Vision joins Focus as a Business Partner. Share your passion for sustainable design.
*Send Updates and Endorsements! Let us know what’s going on!!
*Chill Out is back! Campus Ecology’s Video contest for sustainability. Deadline 11/30.
*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.
*Raise $$$ for your Focus the Nation event: check out the national Polar Bear Plunge!
*The President’s Climate Commitment: Has your University or College President signed on?
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Eban Goodstein
Project Director
Focus the Nation
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