A Powerful Shift
March 3rd, 2009
PowerShift ‘09 was the largest youth climate demonstration ever. Student activists came to Washington, DC from all across America. Earthbeat host Daphne Wysham discusses the conference with Maura Cowley, a Sierra Student field organizer and one of the planners of PowerShift ‘09.
At PowerShift the founder of Green for All, Van Jones spoke about the power of youth in creating change. The new head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, introduced an agency that will make dramatic changes from the previous administration. Ken Salazar, the new head of the Department of the Interior announced the founding of a new youth conservation core.
Following PowerShift, students and organizers held a protest against the coal-fired power plant that heats Congress. As a result of the planned protest Congress recently announced the plant would stop burning coal. We hear from the event and in particular from environmentalist and member of the politically powerful Kennedy family – Robert F. Kennedy.
Then, a review of President Obama’s clean energy budget with the Friends of the Earth’s Erich Pica.
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Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.
