The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduate activists who possess the skills, temperament, and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles.
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The Story of Green Corps
This video is a small celebration of our first 15 years, saluting Green Corps’ founders, alumni, campaign partners, and the work they all do.
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Green Corps 16th Anniversary Cocktail PartyCreated on July 14, 2008 at 8:08am
Recent CampaignsCreated on March 11, 2008 at 3:51pm
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- Note from Kirsten, Assistant Organizing Director 7:18am Jul 14
- Letter from the Director 9:31am Mar 12
- History and Mission 9:27am Mar 12
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Organizer Miller Nuttle talks with the media at a protest sponsored by the Beyond Coal Campaign at Binghamton University: http://centralny.ynn.com/content/all_new
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Coal-fired power plant protest | YNN, Your News Now, brings you the latest local news and weather across Upstate New York.
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Lack of climate bill will prolong recession, white house says: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/03/1
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Senior Obama administration officials say the nation's economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn't pass a climate bill this year.
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Take a look at this editorial in UNC's Daily Tarheel, calling for faster action in eliminating the university's dependence on coal: http://www.dailytarheel.com/content/depe
Dependency theory: UNC must be leader in shedding dependence on coal; benchmarks should be reassesse
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The University needs an energy policy that is both dynamic and aggressive to maximize the opportunities for eliminating its dependency on coal.
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Beyond Coal Campaign holds flash mob at Binghamton University! http://www.newschannel34.com/news/local/
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The Sierra Club's Binghamton University chapter performed a so-called flash mob today.
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Check out this preview for the animated film, The Story of Bottled Water http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/story-
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Watch the above preview of this animated film about the trouble with bottled water. Take a fun and incisive look at how the bottling industry “manufactures demand” for its product and what the public can do to think outside the bottle.
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California caps SF6 emissions for utilities: http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/411
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At a conference in Paris, talks of fighting deforestation, global warming and the "post-copenhagen" landscape: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/
Conference on fighting deforestation boosts morale, budget after morose climate change talks - latim
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, takes leave of Armenia President Serge Sarkissian, following their working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) (REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE, AP / March 10, 2010)
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L.A.'s mayor will propose an increase of 2.7 cents per kilowatthour of electricity consumed: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-
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A portion of the surcharge would go to improve conservation and obtain solar, wind and geothermal power. Above, the DWP's parking-lot solar array. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Is a hybrid climate bill good enough? http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/
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Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman have said they are ditching cap and trade and instead looking to cut emissions using a "hybrid" approach – a cap on carbon generated by electric utilities, limited trading of pollution permits, and perhaps even a carbon fee on fuels. ...
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David Roberts of Grist talks of the positives to be gained from cap and trade controversy: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-
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Cap-and-trade has become politically toxic, but the pressure to act on climate and energy remains. Oddly, this may lead to the passage of some great complementary policies. Or I could be deluding myself.
Green Corps Do you have a plan for this summer? Apply for "the Best Internship on Earth" with the Sierra Club! Click here for more info: www.sierraclub.org/bestinternship
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Our Outdoors Youth Ambassador intern will spend the summer video-blogging on different Sierra Club outings sponsored by our Inner City Outings, Building Bridges to the Outdoors, and Volunteer Vacations programs. See glorious sights, meet amazing young people, and have new adventures!
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court in January ruled that corporations have the same right as individuals to free political speech, big business is now free to blitz the airwaves to attack politicians who support action against climate change: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/r
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Big business is now free to blitz the airwaves to attack politicians who support action against climate change, which could smother messages from environmentalists.
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UK Beyond Coal Campaign got over 300 public comments signed to the EPA yesterday in support of new rules for clean air! Read more about it here: http://ukbeyondcoal.wordpress.com/2010/0
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We got over 300 public comments signed to the EPA today in support of new rules for clean air! If you didn’t have a chance to sign it, you can sign it HERE
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Beyond Coal Campaign at UK aims for campus to be coal-free by 2015: http://kykernel.com/2010/03/10/club-want
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps a mine, it is no secret that a hot coal debate is in the works on UK’s campus. Despite a long tradition of coal dependency at UK, one student organization is looking to turn the tide.
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Critics of mountain-top removal to protest in Washington this week: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-
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