A Greener Eph: We're Flying

Holy shit, its hard to keep track of the multitude of events. Here's a little help!

Check out John Edwards and the New Orleans Step it UP event. Check out any post on Its Getting Hot in Here to see everything that's going on. Thousands of youth are going to converge on DC to slingshot our energy forward at Power Shift, including 17 from Williams and tons from other schools in Western Mass.

Bill McKibbon's posting on the Daily Kos and CNN's investigation 'A Planet in Peril'. (Although note CNN's action center, which tells you to save the world by donating money. Apparently there's no other way.) Why not post a Green Finger video or invite a presidential candidate to a step if up rally?



Coal power plants are being denied in Kansas. Check out the dedicated citizens who got themselves arrested last weekend for disrupting the daily flow of Washington.

The earth is on fire, from the parched fields in Atlanta to the literal flames lapping at the hills of Holywood. This summer's sea-ice loss shocked scientists and the great lakes are shrinking.

"Social movements are a type of group action. They are a large scale informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out a social change."
--Wkipedia, "Social Movement"

We are becoming the change we wish to see in the world. When do we call upon ourselves to step it up? At what point do we start missing class to fight for global justice? When do we forgoe (or at least postpone) income and career to work day and night on a cause? When do we use the tools available to us, our minds and our bodies, to speak truth to power, stand up to destruction and be braver than has ever been asked of us before?