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Focus: The New Presidency / Slingshot! / Climate Cyclists Needed

Dear Friends,

FEBRUARY 2009: The first hundred days of the new administration. A new leader in the White House. A critical moment for the future of life on earth. CONGRESS: CAN YOU DO IT? Cut 30% by 2020.

Put a clean energy future at the top of the national agenda. Join Focus the Nation’s teach-in on global warming solutions, February 5th, 2009. Engage millions of Americans at colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country in a demand for action. Call us today for info on how to get your school involved. Sign up, start recruiting, and stay tuned for details.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP: Focus the Nation is proud to announce the winners of the $10,000 Mojo Project Slingshot awards. Sponsored by Clif Mojo, Slingshot is propelling creative global warming solutions into action. The winners, selected in a nationwide competition of 18 to 25 year olds, will use their funding to help create a prototype community-based thermal energy system in Portland, a roof-top community garden in San Francisco and video news segments highlighting the youth climate movement across the nation. Read about the Slingshot winners below, and here.

climate ride 08CYCLISTS NEEDED: Focus the Nation is partnering with Climate Ride 2008: a 5-day bicycle ride from NYC to DC, where your pedal strokes help raise money for Focus 2009! Join the Focus the Nation team next September, and carry the message to Washington. Combining cycling with evening talks by climate scientists and other experts, this is a unique event—a fundraiser and climate conference on wheels. Please spread the word to cyclists who want to pedal for the planet.

Thanks for the work you are doing.

Eban Goodstein, Project Director
Chungin Chung, Communications Director
 
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FOCUS NEWS

  • Join Climate-Ride 2008! Focus is partnering with this five day, NYC-DC cycle event next September. Check it out and watch for more info in future bulletins.
  • California Sustainability Summit: Butte Community College, June 4-6.
  • Global Warming Direct Action Training Camp in MT, June 1-6th: Free Food & Lodging, just get there. Contact David Merrill for more information.
  • The Focus the Nation Wind Turbine! Thanks to Native Energy, Focus the Nation teams can offset their projects and help build a wind turbine on a family farm in Minnesota.
  • Focus the Nation—the song! Download Gavin Castleton’s global warming anthem.
  • What Did You Teach at Focus the Nation? Help us collect educational material on global warming solutions; find out what others are up to at ClimateChangeEducation.org.
  • 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.
  • Two-Mile Challenge: 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.  
  • The Pre target="_blank"sident’s Climate Commitment: Has your University or College President signed on?
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New Books & Videos on Fighting Global Warming

On video: Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein talk about their recent books on building the global warming solutions movement—Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction (Goodstein) and Ignition (Isham and Waage)

Other recent books of note: Gary Braasch’s Earth Under Fire; and Gary and Lynn Cherry’s How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, Laurie David’s Down to Earth Guide; Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendrick’s Apollo’s Fire and Fight Global Warming Now from Step it Up. 

Global Warming Organizing Films: Everything’s Cool (Dan Gold and Judith Helfand); Revolution Green (Stephen Stout and Jessica Kelly)


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