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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Critics of mountain-top removal to protest in Washington this week: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-
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Green Corps For the "72 Hours for Clean American Power Surge," all of the groups in Clean Energy Works mobilized for a massive phonebanking effort that generated 300,000 calls into key Senators' offices around thecountry, including our targets: Brown (D-OH), McCaskill (D-MO), Warner(D-VA), and Webb (D-VA). Nice work everyone!
Green Corps Take a look at this article about nuclear power plant, Vermont Yankee (with insights from James Moore, President of VPIRG and GC'01!) http://www.vermontlaw.edu/x9593.xml
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The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is unsafe and a planned spin off to put it under new ownership is financially questionable, according to panelists at a public forum Tuesday at Vermont Law School.
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In the interest of public health, Citizens for a Coal-Free Community has asked the Town Council to join its efforts to convince UNC to eliminate the use of coal at its power plant by 2015: http://heraldsun.com/view/full_story/662
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Organization wants UNC to stop using coal by 2015By Gregory Childressgchildress@heraldsun.com;Chapel Hill -- In the interest of public health, Citizens for a Coal-Free Community has asked the Town Council ...
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A cool article on "Cool Schools," illustrating a shift away from coal-powered plants in schools in the South: http://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/current
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BRO’S Honor Roll of the Region’s Greenest Colleges and Universities We did our homework for this assignment. Blue Ridge Outdoors researched,
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Last fall Green Corps organizer Blair Bowie convinced her target, Rep. Defazio (D-OR), to call for congressional oversight hearings on fisheries management. The hearings are officially happening March 18th before the Natural Resources Committee! Check out this article for more info: http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cm...s/sites/web/business/24498869-41/federal
Business: Home | "Fishermen rally against federal catch limits" | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Orego
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WASHINGTON — Fishermen and charter boat captains from Maine to Louisiana rallied outside the Capitol Wednesday to demand changes to federal fishing limits they say are putting them out of business. Participants ...
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Bill McKibben highlights the importance of organizing and direct action to effect change in this article in the Orion: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/a
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Good news! It will only take a few of us to save the planet.
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Take a look at this article from Chapel Hill News discussing the Beyond Coal Campaign at UNC: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2010/03/07
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It's likely that few of the students, faculty and staff at UNC give much thought to where the power that turns on the lights, computers and lab equipment comes from.But some of them do, and they've started to ask important questions about it. ...
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Check-out this Op-Ed from the Boston Globe, co-written by Aaron Sanger (GC'00) and leading climate scientist James Hansen, describing a campaign to help Fortune 500 companies shift from dependence on Canadian tar sands: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editor
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IT HAS become clear that the full changes America needs will not be solved by simply swapping White House tenants. In fact, this has been emphasized by the new tenant himself: we can’t stand on the sidelines and expect to realize the full change we need. ...
Green Corps As Executive Director of HEAL Utah, Vanessa Pierce (GC '03) is leading the "eUtah" study-- an assessment of the technical and economic feasibility of generating 100% of Utah's electricity from renewable energy by mid-century: http://healutah.org/cleanenergy/eutah
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Utah, like the rest of the nation, is at an energy crossroads. We need to develop resources that meet demand, keep the economy going, and preserve the environment. At the same time, we must address our ...
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Nathalie helps to generate three letters in one day to the editor of Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times, calling on the president of the University to eliminate its dependence on coal by 2020. Read them here: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/1
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Virginia Tech is a leading research institution, and yet we still rely on fossil fuels instead of investing in long-term energy sources.
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Check out this article in UNC's Daily Tarheal. Coal-Free UNC makes a successful and moving presentation. Nice work, Laura! http://www.dailytarheel.com/content/stud
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Before a backdrop of signs that read, “Coal mining threatens over 240 species” and “1.4 million acres of land impacted,” the members of Sierra Club’s Coal-Free UNC campaign used a paper mache model of a mountain Wednesday to protest UNC’s alleged link to mountaintop removal.
Green Corps Green Corps is making calls to people in VA, asking constituents to call their senators and say "I want a clean energy bill THIS YEAR." You can help us call too! Email jobs@greencorps.org for more details.
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Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S economy: http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/
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Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap...
Green Corps 18 students/alumni came and testified at the public hearing held but the department of natural resources (DNR) at MSU as a part of the Beyond Coal Campaign. Nice work, Monica! Check out footage from the event here: http://www.youtube.com/msubeyondcoal
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