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Power Shift 2009
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Save the date! February 27 - March 2, 2009

Power Shift 2009 is our opportunity to bring a clear message to Washington, "We want clean and just energy now!". In February, 2009 over 10,000 young people will converge on DC for three days of training, strategy and action. We will unite as a movement and hold our elected officials accountable.

Video highlights from Power Shift 2007

Vote for Focus the Nation!
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Focus the Nation needs your vote! Please visit this link and click the "Vote!" button in the upper left hand corner to support the Nationwide Town Hall on Energy. Once we make it through this round, people across the country will vote for their top ten "Ideas for Change," which will be presented to the incoming Obama adminstration. Once you've voted, be sure to tell your friends!

Obama Taps Green Jobs Champion Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary
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Hilda SolisCross-posted from WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

President-elect Barack Obama has tapped green jobs and immigrant rights champion Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA) to head his Labor Department, according to the Associated Press.

Brita Climate Ride 2008
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Auto Workers call for a shift to green industry
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United Auto Workers are caravanning to Washington this Monday, December 8 to have their say in the discussion on saving the Big Three.
 
Among their demands:
 
Too Big To Fail? Too Big, Period.
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Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Institute and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

Bush Continues "Loot and Run" Strategy, Wins Approval to Expand Mountain Top Removal
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Cross-posted from WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

Like a losing army that loots and then sets fire to a village before retreating, the Bush Administration continues to employ a "loot and run" strategy, gutting as many environmental regulations as they can before leaving office.

Better Living Show
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The Northwest's Largest Sustainable Lifestyle Show

We Act Conference: Advancing Climate Justice
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Advancing Climate Justice: Transforming the Economy, Public Health and Our Environment
A 20th Anniversary National Climate Justice Conference Organized by WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Governor's Global Climate Summit
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Nov 18-19
The Beverly Hilton Hotel
Beverly Hills, CA

On September 26, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger announced that he, along with Governors across the United States and officials from around the world, woud come together in an effort to create a framework for United Nations' negotiators to use when they meet in Poland this December to begin work on a new global climate change agreement.

Good Corporate Citizens: Five Major US Companies Call for Climate, Clean Energy Solutions
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Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Sun Microsystems and Timberland Challenge Lawmakers to Raise the Bar for U.S.Climate and Energy Policy; Call for CO2 Emission Cuts, Clean Energy Investments, Coal Plant Limits

Cross-posted from WattHead - Energy News and Commentary...

Interdisciplinary Environmental Association Conference
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15th INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT
The Shores Resort and Spa
Daytona Beach, Florida  USA
July 7 - 10, 2009