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Gillian Caldwell — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:48:14 +0000

We are geared up for a busy and exciting 2009. This will be a bike-rubber-meets-the-road year for building and demonstrating the political will to make the hard changes for a clean energy future.

Here are some notable beacons:

Green Jobs Recovery: Consensus is building in Washington for a quick and energy-efficient recovery package that moves us towards the 5 million green jobs Obama embraced in his campaign. 1Sky board member and ally Van Jones has led the charge and is being listened to in the corridors of power.
Generation E. NY Times' Andrew Revkin calls them Generation E. We call them our allies, but whatever you call them, young climate activists are the light of the future. From staging eye-popping protests with 350.org at the climate talks in Poland, to creating a clean energy unicycle, to New Mexico organizer Juan Reynosa to Powershift 2009,young climate activists are the lynchpin to building political mandate for change.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) will soon be the chair of the important House Energy and Commerce Committee where key legislation will be crafted.
President-elect Obama's climate change and energy appointments are science oriented and have called for strong action to tackle global warming. Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), the nominee for Secretary of Labor, is a leading proponent of green jobs.
Obama picked a strong voice for environmental justice, Harvard Professor John Holdren as White House Science Advisor. Holdren was also head of the Woods Hole Research Center.
With the selection of Nobel Prize winner and Berkeley Lab director Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy, The nation will soon have a dedicated and highly intelligent climate advocate in the cabinet.
Al Gore's plea for stronger carbon emissions targets to keep us under 350 ppm made worldwide headlines from the climate talks in Poznan in December. Combined with the Reality campaign's "coal is dirty" message, the Nobel Prize-winning former Vice President is showing he will continue to be vital in communicating the climate challenge.
The public is getting it. The Washington Post/ABC News released a poll indicating that 75 percent of Americans believe President-elect Obama should implement policies to reduce global warming -- including half of Republicans. It's not just that the public wants to see serious changes, they actually are optimistic about those changes occurring: more than two-thirds of Americans polled by the Washington Post and ABC News think that President-elect Obama, once in office, will be able to implement policies to reduce global warming.
More than just the usual suspects are demanding a clean energy future. Pastor Dan Schultz reports that in meetings with the Obama transition team, faith based leaders are urging global warming action as one of the faith community's top priorities. Interviews with participants in the Obama transition team's faith-based meetings highlight a stepped-up campaign to combat global warming, among other issues.
1Sky and our allies are building support every day. With over 350 allied organizations and more than 130,000 climate activists nationwide, we are building the political will to embrace the 1Sky solutions.

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Luis Hestres — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:20:55 +0000

Yesterday I joined the newly formed Board of Directors of 350.org, coinciding with a range of exciting new changes at the organization. I have been a supporter of 350.org since I first heard about the wacky plan to turn a wonky scientific target into a global people's movement, and I'm thrilled and honored to be officially joining the team.

In the past three years, we have all watched the number "350" morph into a beautiful and urgent S.O.S., rising up from every corner of the globe, from Iceland to the Maldives, Ethiopia to Alaska. In the process, 350.org helped to decisively shift the climate conversation from polar bears to people -- the people whose island nations, cultures and livelihoods will disappear unless those of us who live in the high emitting countries embrace a different economic path.

What has always mattered most about that magic number is that we are already well past it. That means there is no time to waste on stalling tactics like action plans that only get serious in 2020 and shell games like cap-and-trade. Our single goal has to be radically cutting our emissions right here, right now -- not a decade from now, and not by paying someone else to do it for us.

If there is one thing that the failure of cap-and-trade has taught us, it is that trying to win this battle by lobbying elites behind closed doors is a disastrously losing strategy. Not only did it fail to deliver even weak climate legislation in the U.S., it made climate action look like just another opportunity for cronyism, helping to alienate a large sector of the public.

As 350.org has known all along, the real task is to build the kind of mass movement that politicians cannot afford to ignore. That means showing how making the deep emission cuts that science demands is not some dour punishment that will destroy our economy (as the Koch-funded right is perpetually claiming) but rather our best chance of fixing an economic system that is failing us on every level. Shifting to renewable energy and re-localizing our economies could create millions of good new jobs, while leaving us with cleaner cities and a healthier food system. And as 350.org's Global Work Party showed, a big part of averting climate chaos involves rebuilding and strengthening our frayed communities -- and that is a joyful process.

But it's not enough to dreamily imagine the world we want. We also have to confront, head on, the forces that are determined to use their power and wealth to stop us. Which is why 350.org just launched a campaign targeting the deeply anti-democratic influence that major polluters have over the political process in Washington, starting with the biggest fish of them all, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (chamber.350.org).

I see this campaign as a breakthrough moment in the history of the climate movement, recognition that the struggles for economic justice, real democracy and a livable climate are all profoundly interconnected. As 350.org founder Bill McKibben puts it: unless we go after the "money pollution," no campaign against real pollution stands a chance. The same can be said for any progressive goal, from labor rights to net neutrality. As we recognize these (and many other) connections among our various "issues," I am convinced that a new kind of climate movement will emerge, one that is larger, deeper and more powerful than anything we have seen yet. There is no question that 350.org will be helping to lead the way, and I can't wait to see what comes next.

@NaomiAKlein on joining the new @350

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Luis Hestres — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:59:11 +0000

If you spend a little time as an environmentalist, one thing you’ll hear eventually from friends and family: “I wish there weren’t so many groups. It’s confusing—I don’t know who to volunteer for. Wouldn’t it work better if you all got together?”

This isn’t quite as obvious as it sounds. Different groups have sprung up at different times to fill different niches—you wouldn’t look out at a marsh and say “it would be much nicer if there was just one kind of frog to keep track of.” Diversity has some very real purposes.

But there are moments, and this is one of them, when unity is essential. We’re up against the most sustained assault on the environment ever: in the last few weeks our oldest environmental groups have had to play nonstop defense just to keep Congress from gutting the Clean Air Act. A president elected on the promise of transformational energy change has reverted to opening vast tracts of Wyoming to new coal-mining. A tea-party House has actually voted to deny the science of global warming.

Behind all this is a very unified fossil-fuel industry. Working through the Koch Brothers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and a couple of other fronts they’re busy buying votes and supplying disinformation. And they’re winning. To fight back effectively, we need a much louder voice.

350.org + 1Sky.org event in Fayetteville, Arkansas

That’s why this week we joined together two of the big mass movements around climate change: 1Sky, and 350.org. 1Sky has been coordinating efforts on the ground across the United States; 350.org has been at work in 188 countries around the world. We’ll now all operate under the 350 banner, in an effort to bring a unified message on every front.

That message starts with simple science: our foremost researchers, NASA scientists like James Hansen, have shown that 350 parts per million co2 is the most we can safely have in the atmosphere, a level we’ve already exceeded. No matter how the House votes, physics and chemistry still call the tune.

But the message goes beyond science to politics. We have learned over time that you can’t win simply by explaining the crisis to political leaders; they may intellectually understand that they’re facing the end of the world, but what they really fear is the end of their political careers. We need to build a movement that can reward and punish politicians. Since we’ll never have the money to match the fossil fuel front groups, we’re going to need a different currency: bodies, creativity, passion.

It’s possible to rally that passion. Both 1Sky and 350.org have shown the ability to find and energize a new generation of environmental supporters, one that crosses all demographic and linguistic boundaries.

Together, as the new 350.org, we’ll be speaking with one voice. Shouting, really—trying to drown out the persuasive talk from dirty money.

Wouldn't it be better if you all got together?

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Luis Hestres — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:36:21 +0000

For too long, the fossil fuel industry has had its way on the climate issue--its money has overwhelmed the scientific facts, delaying action on the largest challenge humanity now faces.

Right now, the the Clean Air Act is being threatened, the EPA is under attack, and big polluters are mounting an all-out onslaught that threatens to destroy our lands and scorch our planet. In short, we are losing ground.

In the face of these challenges, one thing is clear: if we want to win, we will have to come together like we never have before.

That’s why we at 350.org and 1Sky have important news to share: starting today, our organizations are officially merging. We’ll be called 350.org, and together we’ll be smarter, bolder, faster, and more creative than we were before.

Over the last three years, 350.org and 1Sky have frequently teamed up for U.S. campaigning. Many of you have been with us every step of the way. Together, we’ve coordinated over 5,000 climate demonstrations in all 50 states. We've helped protect the Clean Air Act and won a campaign to get solar panels back on the White House. We've launched creative projects to get science at the center of the climate debate, trained thousands of new leaders, and built a network of strong local groups.

Despite all of this work, we haven’t been winning enough. The truth is that we don’t yet have the climate and energy policies our country and the world need. To get them, we’ll need to do much, much more to loosen the stranglehold that corporations have over Congress. We’ll need to be as strong as possible to take on the fossil fuel companies--and we can be stronger together. That’s why we’re merging organizations to create a NEW 350.org.

The merged organization will be running an ongoing series of cutting-edge campaigns--online and offline--that can help usher in a new era of climate action:

We will directly confront the barriers to climate progress--from Big Coal to the US Chamber of Commerce, from the cabal of corrupt politicians attacking the Clean Air Act to an administration too timid to defend it.
We will train, empower, and mobilize a grassroots army of individuals, businesses, organizations, and community leaders pushing for climate solutions in the United States.
We will continue our work globally to build a diverse climate movement all around the world that unites for strategic mobilizations on a scale previously unimagined.

In just a few short months, we’ve witnessed people power in action. From the Middle East to the Midwest, movements have risen up to overturn tired dogma and challenge entrenched power.

Many of us were inspired by these events. And many of us were surprised. Perhaps we were growing skeptical that people power could still work. Maybe we had forgotten a vital fact about our world: that bold citizens, united around a common mission, can still come together to create major change against enormous odds.

This movement will never have the money of the fossil fuel industry, so we’ll have to use a different currency: people power. People power means you. It means your friends and neighbors. It means hundreds of thousands of us across the country, uniting to transform our future.

We can do it, and we'll need your help--that's why we'll be in close touch in the coming weeks and months about exactly how anyone and everyone can plug into this vital mission.

If the events of 2011 have taught us anything, it’s that people, properly organized, can do amazing things together.

On behalf of everyone at the new 350.org, let us be the first to say: we can’t wait to do amazing things with all of you.

Onwards,

May Boeve - Executive Director of the NEW 350.org
Liz Butler - Campaign Director, 1Sky
Bill McKibben - Board Chair at 350.org
Betsy Taylor - Board Chair at 1Sky

A BIG announcement from 1Sky and 350.org

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Luis Hestres — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:58:03 +0000

Rachel Dawn Davis: is biking 65 miles tomorrow morning.

“OMG you are?” was the comment my best friend posted after reading my Facebook status update. Newly admitted Oxford dictionary word drop aside, alas, it is true. This May I will be participating in the Climate Ride, a 300 mile bike ride from NYC to DC benefiting 1Sky, a grassroots national climate campaign in the U.S. Climate Ride’s mission is “to create dynamic events that inspire and empower citizens to work toward a new energy future.” Once my fellow riders and I arrive in DC, we will be lobbying our representatives for progressive energy policies, including support for critical green infrastructure. After all, this is not only a fundraising effort arming the preeminent environmental nonprofits with financial support they desperately need, but a clear opportunity for direct action lobbying.

Apart from my best friend’s initial reaction, the feedback I have received has been rather expectant and encouraging. In fact, it has opened me up to an entire world I did not know existed: bicycle enthusiasts and serial fundraisers who do rides like this again and again. Inspired beyond belief by my newfound biking buddies, I have never been so proud to share my love of biking that started when I was a young tike riding to friends’ houses, schools, local stores, and parks. I have taken my indoor training time to read, listen to music, and dredge up fond memories of when biking was my only mode of transportation.

It is fitting, then, that the people who live in my condo-complex and work nearby have been especially supportive. For instance, our mailman (Joe) shared that he started hardcore biking when he discovered a heart condition and was forced to get in shape. When I told Walter (who handles our developments’ recycling) he grinned big and said “There’s nothing like riding with a big group of people, Rachel. When you hear the bikes whizz by it sounds just like bees buzzing. There ain’t nothin’ like it!” Joe and Walter emphatically offered to practice riding with me once it gets warmer out as well as teach me how to patch my tires.

Halters Cycles, a local bike shop, immediately booked an appointment with me to make sure my bike and I are Climate Ride ready in time for outdoor practice. For the past three years I have built relationships with these people while walking my recycling to the community receptacle and riding my bike to run my errands. Taking the time to chat with my neighbors and local business owners has never steered me wrong. It is especially this fact that has helped me mentally prepare for this ride --the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a corporate front group, does not speak for them.

Growing up in Northern New Jersey, my parents felt safe allowing me and my younger sister to bike around. We were hardly chauffeured: we either walked or biked and we enjoyed it. If we did this as youngsters, why did we ever stop? This made me think. Why can’t New Jersey be biker-friendly, let alone biker-focused?

The depredation caused by sprawl has left a succession of overdeveloped land in my current New Jersey neighborhood. My fellow NYC bus commuters and Walt tell me all the time while pointing to unnecessary strip malls “This never used to be here. This used to be a forest, it was all land.” I literally have to go through a mini-shopping strip, parking lot included, to get to my block. Gleefully car-less, I am forced to take public transportation, which wouldn’t be such a bad option if it were light rail but it is a limited and costly bus system dependent upon big oil and the related incessant political unrest. Decidedly powerless planners in my home state claim they are incapable of confronting the giant tax evading behemoths, such as Exxon, who have ensured this sprawl and perpetual construction on our roads. Many towns in New Jersey lack even the basic infrastructure for bikers to advance toward an Amsterdam or Portland, Oregon lifestyle: sidewalks.

Our work is clearly cut out for us, which is precisely why I am partaking in the 2011 Climate Ride. If 100 of us demonstrate the demand for critical green infrastructure in this country, such as a bike system, perhaps we can finally begin to shift the priorities of our public officials, reminding them they should be working for us.

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Alex Bea — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:07:10 +0000

The greatest thing about being a part of a growing movement is the opportunity to work with very cool and creative people. Chief among them for me are the organizers and participants of Climate Ride, which started in 2008 and will add 300 miles to the tires this May. The organizers are hard-core bicyclists and travel adventure leaders who are also passionate about addressing climate change. By putting those pieces together, Climate Ride was born.

When I first began working at 1Sky in September of 2009, one of my first assignments was a blog post about Climate Ride. I didn't know much about it except that 1Sky was involved and our policy coordinator was speaking one night. Being an active biker and climate advocate, I immediately liked the idea of a bike trip to support climate action.

A year later, I got to represent 1Sky on Climate Ride California 2010 and really found out what it’s all about. The ride was started in 2008 by two bike trip leaders based in Montana, Caeli and Geraldine. They had the crazy idea to organize a long-distance bike trip benefiting climate change related organizations. Folks from myriad walks of life rode some 300 miles together, listened to expert presentations in the evening, and hung out in the name of making the world a better place.

Long story short, it was one of the most exciting experiences of my life. I biked through redwood forests, along the Pacific coast, and over at least one mountain (that Californians will tell you is a "hill"). For all my experience mountain biking and doing a previous long distance trip, it was a level of bike adventure that I'd never seen before. On top of all that, I met people who are contributing to building up clean energy in ways I'd never heard of.

You may be wondering if this is just the blog post version of a boring slideshow- its’ not, for two reasons.

First, all my slides are over here.

Second, I want everyone who reads this to be a part of Climate Ride with us. Climate Ride NYC-DC 2011 is going down May 13-17 and registration is now open. Join me on Team 1Sky, and select 1Sky as your beneficiary. If you're unable to go, you can still help out by donating to our policy guy, Jason Kowalski, who is riding with me on behalf of 1Sky.

Either way, come May 13, you'll be getting all kinds of posts, tweets, and photos from us as we ride down the Mid-Atlantic with 100 of our newest, closest climate buddies.

How to grow a movement on two wheels

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Naima Pearce — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:44:52 +0000

Following President Obama's State of the Union address, 1Sky Campaign Director Liz Butler responds to his words on a clean energy future and the Clean Air Act...

In the wake of more than $500 million spent in campaign expenditures and lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, we need a concrete commitment from the president to protecting the Clean Air Act as it currently stands. This is about the health of the American people, and the president must not leave room for compromise."

Read the rest of her statement in our Press Room.

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Naima Pearce — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:50:23 +0000

Senator Sherrod Brown (D- OH) has built a reputation of standing up for Ohioans and all Americans in the face of runaway corporate greed. But now, corporate polluters are pushing leaders like Senator Brown into gutting the Clean Air Act -- a political compromise that would cost lives and hamstring efforts to cut climate pollution nationwide.

New rules under the Clean Air Act (CAA) are cutting climate pollution and boosting the clean energy economy in Ohio and across the nation. The fit perfectly with President Obama's recent opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal advocating for "common sense rules" that are necessary to protect the public. But dirty energy interests like coal and oil are fighting back. They spent more than $1 million attack ads just in Ohio during the last election, and they're ready to spend even more lobbying the new Congress. They'll stop at nothing to roll back common-sense Clean Air Act safeguards that have protected American families for 40 years.

We're not surprised by the latest push from industry to gut the Clean Air Act, but progressives like Senator Brown shouldn't help big polluters gut the CAA when clean energy businesses are creating thousands of new jobs in Ohio.

In the past, the senator had been active in the fight for clean energy, climate legislation and job investment. As a result, Ohio is a top producer in the Midwest for solar panel manufacturing and wind turbines.

Even with those impressive stats, it sadly ranks second in the nation in deaths from coal plants pollution, which shortens the life of 1,221 people each year. Annually, Ohio coal plants result in 835 hospital admissions and 1,891 asthma attacks.

With the Clean Air Act's 40-year track record for saving lives and potential for job growth, it'd be a tragedy if Senator Brown helped put on the breaks on common-sense Clean Air Act rules. When people's lives and livelihoods are quite literally at stake, can Ohio really afford a delay on these rules? Can the nation?

Gutting the Clean Air Act will only thwart clean energy job growth and jeopardize the health of Ohioans and all Americans. If you're worried about corporate polluters pushing Senator Sherrod Brown into delaying the Clean Air Act, he needs to hear directly from you.

Join 1Sky in calling Senator Sherrod Brown and tell him that Ohio needs a leader who will fight for clean renewable energy and defend the Clean Air Act for the health and welfare of our families and our economy.

Additionally you can come to our Ohio Clean Air Rally in Columbus, OH today and join environmental leaders from throughout Ohio as we gather together to protect the Clean Air Act.

Ohio Clean Air Rally
January 24, 2011 12:30PM to 01:00PM

Columbus, OH
200 N High Street
Columbus, OH 43215

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Garth Moore — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:50:00 +0000

1Sky was a proud sponsor of New Organizing Institute’s (NOI) RootsCamp that took place last weekend at George Washington University in Washington, DC. This marked the fifth anniversary of NOI’s RootsCamp "unconference", where organizers set the meeting agenda, share lessons learned, schmooze (I dislike the term “network”, but yeah, network), and drive the conversation about best practices in organizing.

For our team, the event came after a long day and night watching the final steps for the modest agreement in Cancun. Our sensitivities were highly tuned for the work we had done to that point and how we need to organize for the climate movement going forward (knowing we have a lot to do next year). Coming after an 18-month stretch of organizing around federal climate legislation and a disappointing midterm election, it was refreshing to meet with other climate and environmental groups, discuss ideas with groups from other progressive causes, and meet with leaders of all stripes to talk about best practices and what’s next for organizers across the country.

The theme of “Learn, Celebrate, and Grow” was immediately set at the Saturday morning open plenary with a fantastic opening video (see below) that detailed the successes, challenges, and opportunities that organizers face every day in every campaign. Everyone became a student of organizing to some degree; even some of the top organizers could gather wisdom and best practices from other groups. In a year that was tough for climate and a lot of other progressive causes, it was good to see groups celebrating their achievements, especially in keeping up the progressive voice towards making changes, whether that was in health care, equal rights, or climate and environmental issues. Finally, we all recognized that our movements will create an impact when we bring in new voices and expand our messages and actions.

1Sky’s Liz Butler led one of the first sessions discussing how progressive groups and movements can work together to pressure President Obama to champion our causes. Together, session participants brought up a number of reasons why we must push together for change we all worked so hard to achieve back in 2008, including the need to lead the national conversation and to push back on those who want to keep the status quo. 1Sky supporters certainly know that pressing President Obama’s administration for climate leadership has been a big part of our 2010 actions. From what we heard in session, many other groups are doing the same and will continue to do so over the next two years.

Most organizers took the theme seriously (as evidence by this great conference word cloud from NRDC’s Apollo Gonzales). The phrase I heard a lot was “FTW” (“for the win” in text-speak). “The win” means many things to many different groups; in working with you, it means creating a movement that open the eyes of our leaders in Washington to possibilities we have right now to fighting climate change and changing our economy.

NOI held a great conference, and like all good organizers, they want feedback. You can tell NOI what we did well in 2010, and what you need more of in 2011? And if you’re not familiar with their work, check out their Organizing Toolbox for some fantastic resources to help you lead your community.

PS - 1Sky’s table at the RootsCamp Career Fair was a hit as well, thanks to the many folks who came by our table to talk with us about the climate movement and what we have planned for 2011. Interested in joining us? View our job postings online.

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Naima Pearce — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:33:56 +0000

It's the last official day of the climate talks in Cancun, though no one expects things to end today. Negotiators have been working into the wee hours of the night and will probably continue to do so tonight, with the potential for a final deal early on Saturday. Unfortunately, it is increasingly looking like whatever deal that may result will be reached not because of U.S. leadership, but in spite of U.S. obstruction.

Without anything concrete to offer on the policy front, the U.S.'s negotiating strategy has essentially been to run out the clock on the talks in an effort to wrest concessions from China and other large developing nations on measuring, verifying and reporting their emissions. The U.S. has gone so far as to block progress on the establishment of a global climate fund, which is critical to provide poor countries with the resources they need to adapt to climate change and transition to clean energy. Last night I managed to catch up with David Waskow, Climate Change Program Manager for Oxfam America, about this state of affairs -- take a look at the video below for David's take on the negotiations:

Of course a lot can still change -- past U.N. climate talks have always featured a flurry of eleventh-hour decisions and political shifts as countries finally relent on their entrenched negotiating positions, and Cancun will probably be no different. Still, it does not inspire confidence that the U.S. so far has been content to play political games rather than take a moral stand on these critical issues. We'll keep you posted as we head into the Cancun endgame.