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The sky is blue and greenhouse gases are bad for us

April 17th, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

All week we kept getting these alerts from the EPA. First they wanted to tell us about the accelerated clean up of some Superfund sites. Next, they were trumpeting how they are (finally) going to test a bunch of common pesticides to see if they are endocrine disruptors. (Actually, they’re ordering the makers of these compounds to get them tested…but we’ll deal with that fox/hen house issue another time.)

I started to think, geez, would they ever leave us alone? Who do these EPA folks think they are anyway, government regulators?

PowerShift 09 youth vow to keep up the pressure for climate change laws

March 6th, 2009

By Sommer Saadi
Green Right Now

Despite the white snowfall in Washington, D.C. this past weekend, the Capitol was deluged with green demonstrators who didn’t let the snappy weather chill their enthusiasm for fighting global warming.

An estimated 12,000 clean energy youth activists met in D.C. for PowerShift ‘09, a four-day summit to raise environmental awareness and lobby Congress for the passage of climate control legislation. Participants, most between the ages of 18 and 26, traveled from all 50 states, every province in Canada and a dozen other counties to take part in the event.

Quashing any stereotypes that this millennial generation is unmotivated or unconcerned, the long weekend featured roomfuls of rapt young environmentalists at seminars and panel discussions concerning a range of green issues. (Check out their energy in this You Tube video. Global Power Shift.)