Posted by: Erick Boustead in energy justice on
Jun 23, 2010
Last winter, Erick began a nine-month environmental justice fellowship exchange sponsored by the Vermont Law School, China Environment Forum (Woodrow Wilson Center), and Sun Yat Sen University. Along with the development of a personal project throughout the nine months, he will also be spending three weeks on the East Coast and three weeks in China with the 17 other fellows from the U.S. and China. Read on for the fifth of his entries.
Posted by: Erick Boustead in energy justice on
Jun 14, 2010
Last winter, Erick began a nine-month environmental justice fellowship exchange sponsored by the Vermont Law School, China Environment Forum (Woodrow Wilson Center), and Sun Yat Sen University. Along with the development of a personal project throughout the nine months, he will also be spending three weeks on the East Coast and three weeks in China with the 17 other fellows from the U.S. and China. Read on for the fourth of his entries.
Posted by: Erick Boustead in energy justice on
Jun 7, 2010
Last winter, Erick began a nine-month environmental justice fellowship exchange sponsored by the Vermont Law School, China Environment Forum (Woodrow Wilson Center), and Sun Yat Sen University. Along with the development of a personal project throughout the nine months, he will also be spending three weeks on the East Coast and three weeks in China with the 17 other fellows from the U.S. and China. Read on for the third of his entries.
Last winter, Erick began a nine-month environmental justice fellowship exchange sponsored by the Vermont Law School, China Environment Forum (Woodrow Wilson Center), and Sun Yat Sen University. Along with the development of a personal project throughout the nine months, he will also be spending three weeks on the East Coast and three weeks in China with the 17 other fellows from the U.S. and China. Read on for the for the second of his entries.
Posted by: Erick Boustead in energy justice on
Jun 1, 2010
Last winter, Erick began a nine-month environmental justice fellowship exchange sponsored by the Vermont Law School, China Environment Forum (Woodrow Wilson Center), and Sun Yat Sen University. Along with the development of a personal project throughout the nine months, he will also be spending three weeks on the East Coast and three weeks in China with the 17 other fellows from the U.S. and China. Read on for the first of his entries.
What an honor it was to be invited to participate in Expedition Copenhagen of the Will Steger Foundation! In 10 days, often running 18 hours--even 21 on occasion--I had the chance of a lifetime to join the convergence of humanity that was Copenhagen. While the negotiators, the heads of state will get 90% of the press, for me the real story of Copenhagen was the coming together of youth, who built cross cultural networks, soberly asking the negotiators in a sea of orange T-shirts, "How Old Will YOU be in 2050?" Our team of youth delegates was a diverse and wicked-smart bunch who came from 7 states across the Midwest--MI, WI, MN, IA, IL, ND and SD.
Seems everybody's trying to make a run for the border these days. With Latinos becoming the fastest-growing ethnic demographic in America, everyone wants them as customers, and yes, voters. Latinos (or Hispanics or Chicanos) are fiercely brand-loyal, credit averse, and proudly patriotic. If Latinos take up the cause of climate change and climate mitigation, they'll be formidable allies.
This past weekend, I was fortunate to attend an inspiring day-long event,
Climate Justice: A Retreat to Explore a New Way Forward, which was sponsored by the
Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Held at the
Wilder Forest International Retreat Center, we spent the day delving into the potential impacts of global warming on our communities and the ramifications of various forms of federal climate legislation. Most importantly, we also explored the many different paths we can take to tackle many of the root issues--societal, health, food, political and others--that have set the stage for our expansive call to action to solve global warming.
Along with presenters and facilitators from the Institute as well as two doctoral candidates from the University of Delaware's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, the keynote presenter for the day was Bill Gallegos, Executive Director of Communities for a Better Environment, based in Oakland, California. Bill brought over 30 years of experience in social and environmental justice organizing, along with profound insight to the discussions, and equally moving was the diverse group of attendees and multi-cultural aspects of the conversations.
On a remote location of 2.4 million acres in north central South Dakota, wind is the focus of the tribal government and the 8,000 members living on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation.
The Arctic Circle has always been known as ground zero for climate change causing a variety of unnatural problems, and many Indigenous communities have been trying to communicate these problems to the rest of the world for years. Just recently another Indigenous village has been echoing the same message.
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