Posted by Brad Johnson on 05/11/2007 at 05:29PM
© 2007 Ben Wikler
Today saw thousands of Power
Shift
participants coming to Capitol Hill for a day of testimony before the
House Global Warming
Committee,
a large rally on the Capitol steps, and perhaps most importantly,
hundreds of meetings with staff and legislators.
The youth activists introduced the 1Sky platform
and asked for a commitment to the goals of making green jobs, strong
emissions cuts, and no new coal top climate legislation priorities. They
also called for 100% auction of pollution permits, and for an energy
bill with the Senate 35 MPG standard, the
House renewable energy standard, the Green Jobs Act, and no coal or
nuclear subsidies.
Influential leaders will gather for a U.S. Leadership Retreat on Climate
Change & a Green Energy Future. This is the second leadership retreat
convened by the Garrison Institute designed to help a broad
cross-section of leaders and organizations strengthen ties, build the
capacity to actually reverse global warming, and coalesce around a
positive vision of a prosperous, green and more equitable future.
The emerging climate movement does not lack ideas, leaders, or
organizing capacity. It lacks coherence and collective power. Inhibited
by institutional imperatives and political constraints, we have not yet
aligned ourselves (let alone America!) behind solutions as big as the
problem. At the same time, leaders seldom have the chance to pull back
from campaigns and projects to take stock of the larger picture
together. This retreat has three primary objectives:
- To create an opportunity for some of the most innovative leaders
working on global warming & a green economy to meet, share, and
explore new opportunities for mobilizing America for real climate
solutions;
- To shape, develop and advance the 1Sky
campaign to its next stage of
development;
- To provide leaders with time to slow down and explore practices that
can help deepen vision, gain perspective, and sustain commitment,
energy and hope in the face of immense loss.
The retreat will be facilitated by Robert Gass, one of the most gifted
facilitators and leadership coaches in the country.
1Sky
23/10/2007 at 12:00AM