Just spoke to Jessy Tolkan, Energy Action Coalition and Power Vote's amazing Executive Director about sharing the stage (and the last hour) with former Vice President and Nobel Laurette Al Gore.

"What an exciting night!



I had the privilege of meeting and introducing former Vice President and Nobel Laurette Al Gore during the special Power Vote webcast he made to young people this evening. His speech was inspiring and a true call to action to everyone to get out and vote on November 4 and start putting our country on the track towards 100% clean energy.



Although it's not every day you get hang out with a Nobel prize winner, what was even more exciting than what happened in that little studio in Nashville was what has been brewing around this country for the last few weeks and what kicked off in earnest tonight.

Live Webcast:

8:30 pm Eastern

TONIGHT

The buzz around massive climate voter turnout this election is bigger than ever, and we're beyond excited for you to join us tonight at 8:30pm Eastern for our webcast with Al Gore to turn it up yet another notch.



http://www.powervote.org/GoreWebcast



Vice President Gore will speak about the role of young people in RePowering America and why it's so important that we get as many climate voters as possible to turn out on November 4th at our country's most important battle ground: the ballot box.

Exciting blog posted by our good friends at 1Sky

Posted by: Andrew | October 24, 2008

So we’ve been hearing a lot of talk about clean coal in the Presidential race, but want to learn the truth about clean coal? Coalisnottheanswer.org just released this great video informing the American public how dirty coal really is!

The truth about coal. The coal industry has spent over $40 million on misleading advertising that touts coal as the next great thing to solve the energy crisis. It’s time for a reality check. We will not stand by idly as they spew their propaganda.

Check out the video:

James Hansen urges young 'climate voters' to cast vote for candidate who supports clean energy

By Diane Knich (Contact)

The Post and Courier

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Climatologist James Hansen speaks Friday at the College of Charleston.



Leading NASA climatologist James Hansen on Friday told students at the College of Charleston that the first step to reduce global warming is to influence the democratic process.

Today Power Vote Eugene-style partnered up with the Oregon Bus Project for Trick or Vote, a youth canvass in costume. Hitting the streets for GOTV and decorating apartment buildings with super-fancy door hangers, volunteers spoke to their neighbors about green jobs and clean energy in Power-Vote-super-hero costumes.

The event started at a local concert venue, where we were greeted by Senator Ben Westlund, who spoke intensively about the role of the U.S., our energy policy and renewable energy.

GREAT NEWS! We just crossed 100 registered Gore Webcasts. And all that since last Friday. Go us! Tons of new schools are hoping on board Power Vote for this fun and exciting event.



This weekend, many of our partners will be inviting their members to join these viewing parties, so its important that we have as many events created as possible.



So... let's get those events registered. Even if we don't have final details, we can correct them later. http://events.powervote.org/signup



And if you needed more incentive....The Top 3 Schools with the most RSVPs on the Power Vote website by Sunday at Midnight get a shout out from Al Gore.



Still need a fun event idea? Check out the flyer above. It's for University of Maryland's Blood, Guts and (Al) Gore event - A Halloween themed event that will launch volunteers into a costumed dorm storm!

Exciting news from our great friends and partners Green For All (www.greenforall.org):


Van Jones' new book, The Green Collar Economy is an NYTimes bestseller! The first-time author's book made it to the #12 spot on The New York Times' best-seller list during its very first week in print. This makes Van the first African-American writer to pen an environmental best-seller.


Read about the push to make the book a bestseller on The Huffington Post.
And a Q&A with Van Jones.


Van's book was catapulted on to this and other bestseller lists with a minimal marketing budget. Its success was the result of a huge grassroots and netroots effort: blogosphere buzz and an email campaign to partners, friends and other activists made it happen.


In the next two days, we're trying to make this success a national story about the power of the netroots and the movement for an inclusive green economy. Please write about this success on your blogs, so that we can CELEBRATE and show the power of this growing movement! More details are below.


Thank you for your ongoing support.



Read more in the press release below:

My "new word-a-day calender" of days till the psephological (election) is becoming attenuated (thin). Before it's too late, be sure to check out this list of 37 things you can do to engage students in this election. It's good.

Paul Loeb is the author of "Soul of a Citizen" and "The Impossible May Take a Little While"

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Taken from our sister blog at www.itsgettinghotinhere.org:

Besides being the headquarters of the amazing Towson Energy Activists, Towson, Maryland is also the hometown of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. Normally this piece of information wouldn’t matter but on October 4th the city of Towson organized a big parade in his honor. Being resourceful organizers, our plan was plain and simple; use this massive and energetic crowd of students and community members to talk about clean energy and the upcoming election!


York Rd was lined with people. Our first pledge signers were a group of cheerleaders marching in the parade. As we made our way down the street we encountered familiar faces and some unfamiliar ones. Among the organizations in support of the PowerVote platform were the Campus Activities Board, Circle K, the Student Government Association and the sorority Phi Mu.

Our very own Executive Director Jessy Tolkan to be featured on a distinguished panel entitled:

Webcast Description:

Nearly every powerful interest in the world has now accepted the reality of climate change and the impact of cumulative human activities on the climate. Politicians, sociologists, economists, business people, and military think tanks are focusing more and more on what many are calling the likelihood of "climate disruption," which is as just scary as it sounds.