• Campus-wide poster campaign
• Week-long film festival
• Panel discussion with President of Auburn University and local politicians

• Bands and Speakers between bands in residence halls.

• Museum is holding science and art exhibit on global warming.
• Conducting several workshops on climate change to inspire and educate artists.   

• Flashlight Tour - ASU Art Museum
• Speakers: Sir Peter Crane, The John and Marion Sullivan University Professor at The University of Chicago; and Thomas E. Lovejoy, President of The Heinz Center.
• Rock concert, Voter registration, Bike/Carpool contest

• Full Teach-in with complete administrative support.
• Campus Democrats, Libertarians, Greens and Republicans for Environmental Protection organizing political forum.
• Live music on the main campus green with tables for local organizations.

• Organizer inspired by her daughter’s work on Focus the Nation at her high school.
• Panel with political leaders – vice mayors, council members, Arizona Corporate Commission, and County Supervisors to discuss ‘Heroic Climate Challenge facing today’s youth’.
• Coordinating with 16 other community colleges in Arizona

• Kurt Maurer, Office of Policy, Planning and Operations, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Dr. Melanie Lenart, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), University of Arizona, Dr. Nancy J. Selover, State Climate Office, ASU and Joby D. Carlson, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, ASU
• Panel Discussion with Mayor and other local leaders.
• Green vendor expo
• Voter registration and low-carbon meals all week. 

• Biology department organizing a day-long series of presentations.

• Coordinating with the Clinton Library to maximize resources.
• Will screen 2% Solution National Webcast and organize an on-campus teach-in.

• 125 (and counting) faculty participating
• Representative Lois Capps via web-cast
• Focus on technological solutions: Engineering, Architecture, Agriculture, Business

• Green Democracy roundtable to include Senator Carole Migden & challenger Mark Leno and representatives from the Mayors of Cotati, Rohnert Park, and Santa Rosa

• All day panels on health effects of global warming
• Participants can earn up to 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ which can also be applied to CMA certification in Continuing Medical Education

• Keynote from Green Jobs pioneer Van Jones
• San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom attending
• Focus on human/social aspects of climate change

• “Focus your art” competition

• Polar Bear in electric chair in student union, highlighting the impact of our actions
• Carbon-neutral bike-powered concert

• Wal-Mart sustainability rep speaking
• Saturday action organizing with US Rep Lois Capps
• Keynote address from Mayor of Santa Barbara

• 23 interdisciplinary panel sessions ranging from green building to climate change & national defense
• Green Democracy roundtable will include Rep, John Kefalas, Rep Randy Fisher, Senator Steve Johnson and Senator Bob Bacon.

• Goal: no student can go through campus an Jan 31 without being confronted by climate change
• Ski & Snowboard clubs hosting on-campus “rail-jam” highlighting global warming’s effect on snow sports

• Sent out over 500 invitations to all presidential candidates, all NE federal representatives, all CT state representatives, and a multitude of business and civic leaders.
• Coordinating a caravan of buses to go the capital to hold a rally on the afternoon of Jan 31st.

• Professors are devoting their class period to a discussion of climate change within the context of their discipline.
• Film showings include the 11th hour on Jan 29th, the 2% Solution National Webcast on Jan 30th, and An Inconvenient Truth on Feb 1st.

• Panels on the science, social justice and response aspects of climate change lined up. Also hosting in-class discussions.
• Hosting a sustainable dinner
• Live presentation of the Inconvenient Truth speech

• Canceling classes for a full day of events along with local elementary and middle schools.
• US Rep Castle and Lieutenant Governor of DE participating in Green Democracy forum.

• Large community fair with booths featuring local government and energy companies, green jobs, and interactive displays on green living
• Featured speaker Hunter Lovins (author of Natural Capitalism) kicks off all day teach-in.
• More than 100 faculty involved in the event planning and execution.

• Large tabling event with solar tech demonstration and alt. fuel vehicles.
• Roundtable discussion of climate change solutions with mock debate on alt. energy solutions.
• Teach-in and web-cast happening at main campus and many U.F. county extension offices engaging communities all over Florida!

• All day teach-in with 9 speaking panels and dozens of speakers.
• Green Democracy roundtable including State Rep. Mat Hudson and State Senator Burt Saunders.
• Evening will end with a viewing of the web-cast at 8pm
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• Hosting a Rock n Renew Concert on campus with climate panelists between bands.
• Partnering with Chlorine Free Products Association to hold their 3rd Sustainability Roundtable open to the community discussing sustainable practices in business.
• Featured speakers are Chantal Line Carpentier, Sustainability Dev. Officer with the United Nations, and Jose Carlos Fernandez Ugalde, Head of Environment, Economy & Trade Commission for Environmental Cooperation. 

• Full day of panels, dance performances, and lectures.
• Hosting a Power Hour, in which elected officials can come and pledge their commitment to doing something about climate change.
• Musical performances by Gabriel Kelly, Grogus, and DJ Mahogany.
• http://athensfocusthenation.cfsites.org/

• A coalition of environmentally-conscience students from many of the major colleges and universities in Georgia (including Georgia Tech, UGA, Agnes Scott, Emory, Georgia State, Morehouse, Valdosta State, among numerous others), are convening on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol to voice their concerns regarding climate change.
• Students will be briefed in a short course on lobbying, go to the press conference on the Capitol steps at 10am, and then partake in a "Lunch and Lobby" at 11am-12pm. During the lunch, legislators will come into a "lunchroom area," where students will meet with their legislators and encourage them to implement state policies that will help address climate change. The lobbying will continue after lunch until 2pm. 

• Student Presentations on Hawai’i climate change threats. With $150 prizes to best Graduate and Undergraduate Presentations and Most Original Presentations.

• Keynote speaker is Pastor Tri Robinson.
• Hosting a Shrink Your Footprint contest, business and research symposia, a variety of lectures and panels, an art exhibition, and a political roundtable.
• http://www.boisestate.edu/focusthenation/

• An information 'fair' will take place at city hall and/or the public library. Will have representatives from local organizations and businesses who can inform and demonstrate to residents both the necessity for change in energy practices and use of natural resources and the best ways to go about making those changes.
• A business/poster campaign is underway to involve our local businesses in the conversation
• Kicking-off of a year long contest between 4 homes and 4 businesses to focus attention on ways to increase their own energy efficiencies and improve their environmental practices.
• All city officials have been invited to the event that kicks off the contest.

• Faculty members will be tailoring the class lectures around climate change and how it relates to their disciple/course topic.
• Showing the 11th Hour and The 2% Solution National Webcast,
• The Mayor of Normal, IL will be speaking about the town's efforts to address Climate Change

• Showing An Inconvenient truth, the 11th Hour, and The 2% Solution National Webcast
•  Roundtable with school administrators
• Going to Illinois State University for discussion with political leaders

• Over 50 faculty members committed to participate in panel discussions and other events on campus.
• 6 Sessions of 3 concurrent panel discussions. (Total of 18 panels)
• SGA putting on a Focus the Nation concert

• Full teach-in with movie screenings, 2% Solution broadcast, symposium, policy forum and a community sustainability expo.
• US Senator Lugar’s special advisor on energy and US Representative Ellsworth participating.  

• Series of presentations by Central Faculty with a keynote by Evangelical Environmental Network founder Cal DeWitt.     

• Emphasizing corporate responsibility.
• Holding events (lectures, panel discussions) across campus on a wide variety of subjects to attract diverse audiences.

• Over 20 faculty have committed to incorporating climate change discussions in their classes that day.
• Roundtable discussion on climate change solutions moderated by Simran Sethi, award-winning journalist and environmental correspondent for NBC News.
• Guests at the event include Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson, Senator Marci Francisco, Representative Barbara Ballard, Representative Paul Davis, Representative Tom Holland, Mayor Sue Hack, and City Commissioner Boog Highberger.

• Instituted large recycling project on campus with involvement of campus administration and engaged Baldwin city mayor and city council to consider instating a city wide recycling center.
• The Campuses roundtable discussion Jan 29th will engage the community in global warming solutions using the successful recycling project as inspiration for what people can accomplish locally.
• The campus club Earth We Are will set up 3 demonstration pieces to draw attention leading up to the day of panelists and the round table discussion.

• 29 sessions over 4 days in addition to art projects and displays.

• Spreading events out over the course of the semester to include film screenings, panel discussions, political round tables, local meals and culminating on Earth Day.

• Bringing in political leaders such as State Senator Scorsone for their political round table
• At least two panels during each time slot on the 31st.
• Low-carbon lunch

• Open the day with a large opening plenary on the basics of global warming then we will have break-out sessions with several concurrent lectures during the 3 afternoon class periods.
• Author Chris Mooney is speaking on Jan 30th
• Hosting an exhibit of photos depicting climate change during the entire week.
• http://www.tulane.edu/~eaffairs/focus.htm

• Tours of LEED buildings on campus
• State Representatives and Senators will participate in round table discussions
• Keynote address by Beth Nagusky, Maine Director of Energy Independence and Security

• All professors will discuss climate change in class during the week and will bring classes to panel discussions as well as keynote speeches.
• UNE will also be screening films and provide local foods at the events.

• Week-long voter registration
• Science presentation on alternative energy
• An environmental fair
• A campus teach-in comprised of several parallel presentations by
• faculty and guests
• Polar Bear Splash into the St. Mary's River
• Federal, state and local legislator round table discussion

• Symposium presentations
• Sponsored Booths
• Movie Presentations

• Day-long series of panel discussions
• Green Fair
• Green Stage: creative expression inspired by global climate change

• 200 Students from 23 area high schools participating in 17 workshops, film screenings and round table discussions with political leaders

• Jan. 14th the Tufts Institute of the Environment will be offering a climate change "literacy seminar" for faculty to learn how to incorporate climate change into their classes.
• January 31st includes a university-wide teach-in, dorm competitions, voter registration and tabling.
• Keynotes by Congressman Ed Markey, Adam Markham from Clean Air - Cool Planet, and Wood Turner of Climate Counts. This will be followed by a panel with three State Senators, a mayor, and students from Tufts.
• http://www.tufts.edu/programs/sustainability/FocustheNationatTufts.htm

• Keynote speaker Bill McKibben. Having a lunch discussion with him for environmental studies students. Later in the afternoon, he is going to be leading a political organizing/activism session.
• Sustainability fair

• An evening of music, storytelling, and community, with performances by EricaWheeler, community viewing of the nationwide webcast, "The 2% Solution," and storytelling by Marge Bruchac.
• Lunch Panel: "Political, Personal, Powerful: Activism for Climate Change"
• MHC faculty, staff, alumnae present a kaleidoscope dialogue that turns from history to politics to economics to chemistry... to show us climate
  change from many angles
• http://www.mtholyoke.edu/ce/17068.shtml

• Political forum: Michigan State House member, Senator, Energy Advisor to the Governor, and President of Landing Board of Water & Light

• Panel focusing on making wind power available includes the Mayor, a State Senator, MSU economist, electrical utility rep and Michigan wind power expert.

• Campus-wide teach-in
• Unite For Awareness Rock Concert
• Sustainable Lifestyles Fair

•  “Focus Minnesota”: Hosting an event with Will Steger and local politicians off-campus at a rock venue in downtown Minneapolis. Hoping to draw over 1,000 people.
• Hosting a broadcast of the 2% Solution in our auditorium. It seats 300. It will be followed by a panel discussion.

• Starting with convocation, hosted by President of college, feature new sustainability manager, dir of facilities, dir of Bon Appetit
• Many panel discussions happening all day on campus
• President of College will moderate a forum of local and national politicians

• Keynote speakers David Orr and Will Steger

• Full-day event with panel discussions, local political leaders, and film screenings.

• Engaging entire community with a “Save the Ales” pub crawl, and sustainable film series at Moxie Cinema.
• Coal Drop: 20 tons of coal displayed outside university will represent how much the school uses in 1 HOUR!!!
• Large tabling event for MSU and community, panel discussions, and bands all day in student union building.

• A climate change solutions round table with guests including the mayor, pres of chamber of commerce, CEO discovery center, and co-chairs of the regional sustainability steering committee.
• All day teach-in with 6 panel discussions.
• Coordinating events with MSU including coal drop. 

• Panel discussion on 31st with community leaders and elected officials. Mayor of Missoula is already confirmed.
• Screening of 2% solution, in class teach-in, and community panelists.
• http://www.cas.umt.edu/evst/events_calendars.htm

• Full-day teach-in
• Closed-circuit TV broadcast of events for interested classes who cannot make it.

• Monday: local foods in dining halls
• Tuesday: “Who Killed the Electric Car” and discussion with electric car advocate
• Wednesday: 2% Solution with local foods
• Lecture series and political round table

• Large, creative series of events.
• Highlights include a hip-hop performance, an art installation, alternative fuel demonstrations, film screenings, and a student involvement fair in addition to the 2% Solution, teach-in and Green Democracy.
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to participate via video feed.

• Q and A with local experts
• Short lectures all day with an emphasis on direct action and engagement
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to participate via video feed.

• 5-day series of lunch presentations

• Focused on civic engagement through voting and discussions with political leaders on all levels.

• Global warming solution activities including grow a greenhouse tree now to plant on Earthday
• Photo presentation on endangered animals of New Jersey by Bill Dalton/EPA

• Candlelight vigil
• Green Business Fair

• Holding a political roundtable discussion
• Asking all faculty to discuss climate change in their classes

• Seminars and films all day.
• Student organized activities and bands.

• 30+ presenters/discussants (faculty, administration, students, community representatives, local organizations, etc.)
• Art/photography exhibit/contest for best art made with recycled materials.
• Outdoor installation of fake wind farm
• Theatrical and musical performances.
• Sustainability Marketplace of Goods and Ideas

• Keynote Presentation: Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, the Breakthrough Institute
• Sustainability fair
• Panel Discussion: "Local solutions to the Climate Crisis", Local Environmental Leaders and NYU Faculty

• 26 panelists
• Theater department doing a presentation
• Art show
• All local picnic from local farmers
• http://inside.bard.edu/berd/energy_programs.shtml

• 80 faculty participating in teach-in
• All-day carnival Jan. 31 akin to Live Earth events 

• Campus-wide teach-in
• Recycled Fashion Show “Recycle-Remix-Restyle,” eco-art tattooing station
• “Save the Ales” after-party highlighting global warming effect on hops, grapes

• 80% by 2050 ‘80s party
• 6 panelists including the Mayor of Ashville, and NC utilities commissioner.
• Campus sustainability tours.

• Biology Club will conduct surveys and have giveaways of items—pamphlets, books, lightbulbs, t-shirts
• Biololgy department will participate in the teach-in individually and do some team teaching skits and the local high school will also be participating.
• An Envirothon club will host educational tables/events.

• Encouraging creativity on campus as well as at local tribal colleges, high schools and elementary schools.
• Screening “An Inconvenient Truth” all day alongside faculty presentations
• Political round table at night

• Full program with webcast, teach-in, political forum and film screenings

• All professors discussing climate change in classes on Jan 30th.

• Round table for college and local community
• Non-emitting vehicle parade on campus

• 26 groups of lower school kids, seniors, freshmen and 6th graders working on solar bracelets, pinwheels, sunprints and other activities related to renewable energy and recycling.
• 16 groups of 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders constructing windturbine models, solar cars and looking at electrical usage at school and home.
• Lower schoolers will see The Lorax and make recycled art projects, bird feeders and other activities related to recycling and sustainability.
• Speakers from organizations such as the farm bureau energy group, ecovoom, solar providers, politician

• At the request of ECU’s President, two new environmental organizations have taken over Focus the Nation and students will lead discussions across campus

• Alternative energy demonstrations with 25 foot wind turbine, solar ovens and photovoltaic cells and flex fuel vehicles
• Forum in 1,000 seat venue with local Mayor, IPCC scientist and other local experts and decision-makers
• Continuing commitment with SGA Green Week in April and Hunter Lovins lecture in May

• 50 faculty will address climate change during panel discussions
• Student-organized poster contests, dances and open mics will bring in creative energy

• University of Portland will host a live 4-hour Green Democracy forum with Governon Kulongoski, US Rep Earl Blumenauer and other local politicians at the Chiles Center with the participation of nine Oregon universities.
• Produced by Allison Frost of Oregon Public Broadcastng, the forum will replace All Things Considered on OPB.
• Stars of Track and Field concert follows the forum
• Event starts off with the sketch comedy of LiveWire!

• Organizing a wide variety of events with art shows, meals, concerts, panel discussions
• Keynote by Daniel Desmond, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Energy and Technology Deployment, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

• Coordinating to pool their strengths for Green Democracy.
• Carnegie Mellon will be broadcasting a Climate Change 101 talk with Professor Granger Morgan before the web cast and will be making it available to other schools.

• Speakers: Andy Revkin of the New York Times, US Representative Jim Gerlach, PA Senator Rafferty, IPCC scientist Richard W. Alley and various other activists, politicians and scientists will address the campus community over four days
• Dar Williams concert
• Working with local elementary and high schools, such as Methacton High School, on curriculum and creative events.

• 75 Faculty
• 800 Students
• Panel discussion with local experts

• Senator Whitehouse is speaking Monday, Jan 28th
• Panels throughout the week about climate change as it relates to different disciplines
• Eco-fair with live performances from student groups and tables with information from student groups and initiatives on campus, green products and green activities.
•  The Environmental Change Initiative, a committee of professors from all disciplines, are organizing presentations from professors to show students about research opportunities relating to energy.

• Just started planning, but it is going to be a large event

• Clemson hosts the national kick off for Focus the Nation on January 25th, 2008
• Keynote by Eban Goodstein, Project Director of Focus the Nation
• Green Expo
• All faculty discuss climate change in class

• US Representative Bob Inglis confirmed to participate

• Inviting federal officials to participate in a round table following broadcast of the 2% Solution.

• Mid-day sustainability fair featuring local businesses, student groups, environmental initiatives and technology
• Guest speaker Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals
• Approx. 30 faculty have committed to present in the teach-in along with 6-10 guest speakers. Expected to impact 50% (2000) of the student body.

• Film festival and Environmental slide shows, including a climate project presenter.
• Band “Strut” performing that evening. High energy ska-funk. http://www.strutproductions.com/index.php?pageid=bandbio
• Keynote Speaker – Rob Caughlan speaking on “Individuals Making A Difference” Caughlan draws on the experiences of 30 years as an activist and advocate to explain and illustrate not only that individuals can make a difference, but how they can do so. http://www.ecospeakers.com/speakers/caughlanr.html
• Focus the Nation Parade sponsored by the art/music department.
  Procession begins at Guerry.

• Panel with Mayor of Houston, President of Shell USA, Neil Lane, science advisor to the Clinton administration, climate scientist, and President of Rice

• Preparing a video for all professors to promote FtN;
• Roundtable on Jan 31st with the town and gown

• Planning a teach-out at our 7 campuses. This means we will be taking our students outside to teach them about global warming.

• Focus the Nation month!
• Over faculty are going to take one day that week to include climate change in their curriculum
• Interfaith climate change panel discussion to include all of Salt Lake City
• http://www.sustainability.utah.edu/focus.htm

• Environmental waste week. Bring anything that plugs in and they'll recycle it.
• Wasatch Front Forum – Utah's Energy Future. Hear what representatives from Rocky Mountain Power, Utah Clean Energy, and the Sierra Club think about meeting the state's growing energy needs.
• Web-cast, teach-in and partnership with local public transit to get people out of cars and on the bus.

• Video introduction by the Governor
• Local, gourmet lunch
• Many panel discussions
• http://www.focusingcache.org/

• On one hand, GMC will have a serious conversation with members of the Vermont Governor's Commission on Climate Change, faculty and students.
• On the other, the Bread and Puppet theater troupe will provide entertainment.

• 40 campus organizations, 60 faculty and 30 community organizations have partnered to organize over 30 events for Focus the Nation including round tables with local politicians, marches, an environmental justice film festival, keynote speech by Judy Brown of Coal River Watch, theater performances and sustainable design competitions.

• “Windmill vs. Smokestack Brawl” – costumed performance fight
• Free Compact Fluorescent light bulb exchange.
• Web-cast, teach-in, and Choose your Future vote.

• Special panelists Lester Brown, Jagadish Shukla (GMU faculty member who serves on the IPCC), Ed Maibach (GMU faculty member who directs our Center for Communication on Climate Change); and the CEO of eco-America
• Faculty and grad students from our Institute for Conflict Analysis will do a panel presentation on conflict and climate change.
• Several classes have assigned the program to their class for the day. 

• 500+ student rally on drill field
• Using Focus the Nation to get President to sign PCC

• All freshmen have been reading Elizabeth Kolbert's book Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
• On January 31st, the entire campus will focus on global warming solutions with a day of panel discussions, plenary talks, a "climate action cafe", and exhibits from local environmental groups and green businesses.
• University President Emmert will kick off a two-hour town hall meeting with elected officials including Mayor Greg Nickels.

• The entire faculty will be doing some amount of climate discussion through out the entire week. (6-11th grades).
• 2 half days will be spent with the middle school in which they will all work on a group project on climate.
• A contest through out the week for students who find other ways to get to school. Bike, Walk, Bus
• Year-long “Impact Projects” deal with sustainability this year.
• Math classes crunch the carbon footprint of the school and maybe the larger community.

• Guest Lecturer Lester Brown President and Senior Researcher, Earth Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. and author of Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
• Holding book signing that evening
• Info fair with different environmental groups

• A combined effort by the Sierra Club to coordinate several university efforts in D.C. into one large event.
• Working on a concert. 

• Using The 2% Solution as a kickoff to "Rise up and Power down," a dorm energy competition

• Starting the day with an organic pancake breakfast
• Film screenings throughout the day
• Students coordinating panelists, including local elected officials and civic leaders

• Coordinating a program for all 16 campuses throughout Wisconsin

• Keynote speaker Alison Gannett world champion free skier and founder of Save our Snow will speak on solutions to climate change.
• Community fair for local businesses and students to display info on sustainable community development.
• Community event drawing participation from CWC, local high schools and residents.

• Teach-in and web-cast. Three day event. Waiting for big update.

• Teach in and roundtable with guest speakers Gabor Vali - IPCC member, Rebekkah Simon-Peter (Climate Project), Charles Matheson
  
  

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