Climate action in DC
I looked for news about this event everywhere but only had success at Alternet.
The grassroots energy displayed in the Capitol appears to mark an important turning point for the environmental movement. Climate change — for many years the concern of a narrow circle of scientists and inside-the-Beltway policy wonks — seems to have finally birthed a broad-based citizens movement. The numbers prove the point: Powershift, the 12,000-person conference that organized the lobbying day, attracted 5,000 students at its 2007 gathering 14 months ago; the first such meeting of campus climate activists, in 2005, had fewer than 200 attendees.
