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The latest youth climate-change news from itsgettinghotinhere.org.
Project Slingshot Winners Announced!
Millions of people are celebrating and rallying for climate action this Earth Day, but we’re also seeing how dedicated young people are to spending more than just one day working to pass legislation and find community solutions to global warming. Today, Focus the Nation and Clif MOJO are proud to announce three projects that will [...]
Introducing Fired Up Media
So, if you are regular reader of It’s Getting Hot in Here, you may have noticed that I have been a little absent recently. Why, you might ask, as what could be more exciting than sharing information with the youth climate movement? Well, I have been working on a project behind-the-scenes that I want to [...]
Appalachians Confront Citi Over Coal Financing at Annual Shareholder Meeting
A little detail from the policy and financial side on what we’re doing inside meeting:
“Rainforest Action Network, Appalachians Confront Citi Over Coal Financing at Annual Shareholder Meeting
Groups to support landmark climate change resolution
NEW YORK—Activists with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) were joined by Appalachian residents at Citi’s Annual General Shareholder [...]
Hey Citi, Coal is Over! Start Funding Wind and Solar!
Today is Citi’s annual shareholders’ meeting. It’s the day where the company executives give a report on the state of the company (which is pretty bad for Citi right now, $5.1 billion loss 9,000 more about to be laid off). As a company they are being hit pretty hard by the credit and subprime mortgage [...]
WV Young Democrats Say “No New Mountaintop Removal Permits!”
The youth organization of the most powerful political party in West Virginia passed a multi-pronged resolution on coal & green jobs that included a call for No New Mountaintop Removal Permits. Our generation knows that Mountaintop Removal takes mining coal too far and we have safer ways to mine it as we transition to renewable [...]
China’s Green Beat
Hey all, below is a post I’ve been excited about for a long time. When IGHIH started, its goal was to provide a voice for a global youth climate movement. That movement is there - it’s up to all of us to listen for it, find those who can tell its story, and help bring [...]
What is Bank of America Doing for Earth Day?
I’ve been spending this past week in Charlotte, NC - the headquarters of Bank of America. Their annual shareholder meeting is this Wednesday, and I’ve also been attending a number of Earth Day events around town - helping answer the question: What IS Bank of America doing for Earth Day?
More than a few [...]
Drop it like it’s hot
The story of smokestacks and tailpipes (Abridged version)
So, here’s what happened. A few hundred years ago we decided it was time to create companies. To get lots of people to buy what our companies were selling, we started looking beyond the towns we lived in for a market for our goods. As we sought out [...]
Raise a Rope for Climate Hope
Raise a Rope for Climate Hope: a youth-driven, community-service, climate-action project
The Wolfeboro, New Hampshire based nonprofit, Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.) is gearing up to join thousands of other youth from around the world on Global Youth Service Day to help tackle their generation’s most pressing environmental issue - climate change. Their strategies are [...]
The Solution Is Simple.
After scaling 45 stories with no ropes and no harnesses, a lot of things look easier — even solving climate change. When Alain Robert climbed the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong last week, he was telling the world that stopping climate change is possible, and simpler than we think, if we join together to take [...]
