Green Corps
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.
Information
Founded:
1992
Events

1 upcoming eventSee All

YouTube Box

3 of 3

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.
more ↓
Photos

2 of 3 albumsSee All

Green Corps 16th Anniversary Cocktail PartyCreated on July 14, 2008 at 8:08am
Recent CampaignsCreated on March 11, 2008 at 3:51pm
 
Green Corps

Green Corps 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_news/southern_tier/498982/coal-fired-power-plant-protest

centralny.ynn.com
Coal-fired power plant protest | YNN, Your News Now, brings you the latest local news and weather across Upstate New York.
about an hour ago · Comment ·
Green Corps
blogs.wsj.com
Senior Obama administration officials say the nation's economic recovery could stall if Congress doesn't pass a climate bill this year.
2 hours ago · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps 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/dependency-theory-unc-must-be-leader-shedding-dependence-coal-benchmarks-should-be-reassesse

www.dailytarheel.com
The University needs an energy policy that is both dynamic and aggressive to maximize the opportunities for eliminating its dependency on coal.
3 hours ago · Comment ·
Marcus Haley
Marcus Haley
University of Memphis shoutin' out to UNC... Well done!
3 hours ago
Green Corps
www.newschannel34.com
The Sierra Club's Binghamton University chapter performed a so-called flash mob today.
4 hours ago · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps Check out this preview for the animated film, The Story of Bottled Water http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/story-of-bottled-water

www.stopcorporateabuse.org
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.
Mon at 3:59pm · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps California caps SF6 emissions for utilities: http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/41101

Mon at 2:11pm · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps At a conference in Paris, talks of fighting deforestation, global warming and the "post-copenhagen" landscape: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-climate-forests,0,7253167.story

www.latimes.com
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)
Mon at 12:57pm · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps 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-dwp-rates12-2010mar12,0,4724327.story

www.latimes.com
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)
Mon at 10:43am · Comment ·
Green Corps
motherjones.com
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. ...
March 12 at 1:58pm · Comment ·
Hector Cardona
Hector Cardona
Hell no it is not good enough!
March 12 at 2:07pm
Green Corps

Green Corps David Roberts of Grist talks of the positives to be gained from cap and trade controversy: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-11-how-cap-trade-controversy-could-lead-to-good-clean-energy-policy/

www.grist.org
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.
March 12 at 12:59pm · Comment ·
Green Corps

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

www.sierraclub.org
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!
March 12 at 11:40am · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps 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/reuters/2010/03/12/247972/p1/Political-ads.htm

www.chinapost.com.tw
Big business is now free to blitz the airwaves to attack politicians who support action against climate change, which could smother messages from environmentalists.
Green Corps

Green Corps 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/2010/03/04/coal-will-not-save-kentucky-in-future/

ukbeyondcoal.wordpress.com
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
March 12 at 9:27am · Comment ·
Green Corps

Green Corps Beyond Coal Campaign at UK aims for campus to be coal-free by 2015: http://kykernel.com/2010/03/10/club-wants-to-curb-coal/

kykernel.com
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.
March 11 at 9:39am · Comment ·
Green Corps
thehill.com
March 10 at 3:07pm · Comment ·