Hi all
FTN'ers,
Our teach-in day on
January 30th is shaping up and so is the
Town Hall Meeting.
The Arcata City Council
will be hosting the Town Hall meeting from the City Council chambers.
People can come to City Hall but it will also be broadcast on access
Channel 12 and people will be able to call in and we can arrange places
throughout the community where people can gather to watch
it.
We will have
local government officials sharing the stage with several students all
talking about their global warming solution priorites. (We are
looking for students to be panelists - contact us!)
Hopefully Mike Thompson
and maybe the Senators will be there for some part of it via video
conferencing.
This will be a great
chance to voice our opinions to our leaders!
Thanks, the HSU
Focus the Nation Team
12/3/07 Focus
Update
Help us engage hundreds of members of congress
with tens of thousands of young people in Green Democracy, a national conversation with the power to change the
world.
If
your U.S. Senators or Congresspeople can’t be there in person, that is no
excuse. Focus the Nation is partnering with SightSpeed and
working with Congress to set up video dialogues. Your elected rep can open up a
lap-top in Washington D.C., and have a carbon-free, round-table discussion with
your packed campus auditorium.
We are
still sixty days out, and Focus the Nation is rocking across America.
Highlights:
CalPoly San Luis Obispo: Over 125 faculty involved with a goal of 500. Keynote from U.S.
Representative Lois Capps.
Clemson University: Hosting the national kick-off event for
Focus the Nation on January 25th, including a webcast of the keynote
from Eban Goodstein. Amazing web site.
Central Connecticut State
University: OVER 500
invites to ALL presidential candidates, all NE federal representatives, all CT
state representatives, and business and civic leaders. Coordinating a caravan of
buses to the capital to hold a rally on the afternoon of Jan 31st.
The University of
Washington: All new
undergrads reading Elizabeth Kolbert's book Field Notes From a Catastrophe. On
January 31st, visit the "climate action cafe", and join the town hall meeting
including Mayor Greg Nickels.
The University of Central
Florida: Focusing their
entire first year curriculum on climate change, have more than a hundred faculty
involved in planning and executing their event and are hosting The 2%
Solution webcast on January
30th.
Willamette University: Full day of events—and a music
video contest! Submit your video to accompany a global warming song written
by a senior Willamette Administrator,
Read about San Francisco State, the
University of Utah, The 5 Colleges (UMass-Amherst/Mount
Holyoke/Smith/Hampshire/Amherst), The Maricopa Community College System, CU
Boulder, Ursinus College, the University of Portland, Williams College, the
University of Arizona, Carnegie Mellon, and lots, lots more on our update page! Send us news from your campus.
Join
us for our regular organizing call on
Wednesday, 12/5—12 noon, eastern. Call in to 1-218-339-7800, passcode
1312008. 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, December 5th, 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.
Focus
News:
*National Campus Energy Challenge! Join schools across the country and see what you can save
in February!
*Send Updates
and Endorsements! Let us know
what’s going on!!
*
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.
*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.
*The President’s
Climate Commitment: Has your University or
College President signed on?
New Books on
Fighting Global Warming
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