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Transitioning: Report from Rethinking Dine Power Cross posted by Erin and Amanda from here This week, it feels like we’re really getting into the swing of the campaign. Finally done with visioning and planning, we have everything set up and ready to go for our first program and first event. Now is the time for gathering our team and doing massive outreach. Our first volunteer meeting was a disaster, only two people came, but it ended up being a great conversation about what we really want to accomplish here, what we’re inspired by and basically letting loose all the information we’ve learned over the past two months. After that, Erin and I pulled it together for a second volunteer Read More... |
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Rethink Diné Power with Erin and Amanda Cross posted from Youthnoise by Trina Chi Erin Coffey (left) and Amanda Hass (right) recently won the 2009 Focus Roots Fellowship to help communities transition towards sustainable energy sources. The Focus Roots award includes $10,000 and operational support, a bicycle trip from New York City to Washington D.C. to promote a clean energy future, and a ticket to Copenhagen to attend the COP15 Climate Treaty Negotiations. Amanda and Erin's project, Read More... |
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This Week from the Global Observatory Introducing a new FTN media partner: Global Observatory. GO will be providing us with the unique international perspective in the leadup to COP 15. Find out more at http://www.globalobservatory.net/. Sit back and enjoy some good reads! Cutting carbon makes sense for your profit (and the planet) |
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Spearfish Bike Cooperative: Focus Roots Fellow Makes Change By YouthNoise Blogger Trina Chi Meet Jeremy Smith. He's a cyclist, a community builder, a German-cookie aficionado, and the winner of the 2009 Focus Roots Fellowship. To be fair, Jeremy didn't win the fellowship per se; he earned it through his incredible dedication to both the bicycle and his community. Along with co-founder John Williams and a crew of volunteers, Jeremy is building a Read More... |
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Launching Off- Focus Roots Fellows get moving in Navajo Nation Crossposted fromhttp://rethinkdinepower.wordpress.com/ Our mission:
Why in the world did two white girls from the East Coast decide to do this? Erin: I think what has led me to moving out here specifically for this project was because I really wanted to be able to create a space where diverse, indigenous communities can dictate what they want their energy and economy Read More... |
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Former 08 Roots Fellow Talks Climate for the State Department! Richard Graves is a former FTN Roots Fellow, and current blogger and online campaigner with the Global Campaign for Climate Action, project director and founder of Fired Up Media, an associate producer for LinkTV’s EarthFocus, and a contributing editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here. Richard has used his amazing talents, and the empowerment gained through the Roots Fellowship to catapult himself into a position of leadership in the Climate Movement. Now he find's himself with the amazing opportunity to spread the climate movement's message to embassies across the world! Check out Richard's State Department post Read More... |
