CampusProgress.org today features 4 new interviews with leaders in the struggle against global warming -- Majora Carter, Van Jones, John Passacantando and Guster's Adam Gardner.  We're highlighting this issue because, as we speak, over 5000 young people are gathering a few miles from here for Powershift, a major conference aimed at taking a stand for a future based on clean, renewable energy.  You can read our press release on this issue after the jump.

 

For Immediate Release
November 1, 2007

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Ramya Raghavan , 202.481.8247

WITH YOUTH CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT APPROACHING, CAMPUSPROGRESS.ORG FEATURES INTERVIEWS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HEAVY-HITTERS

WASHINGTON— In the run-up to Power Shift 2007 , the historic climate change summit that will bring over 5,000 young people to Washington this weekend, the web magazine CampusProgress.org is featuring interviews with four leading activists from across the environmental spectrum: Greenpeace Executive Director John Passacantando , environmental justice activist Majora Carter , Guster frontman Adam Gardner , and Ella Baker Center for Human Rights president Van Jones . “Each of these environmental leaders has had a unique impact, but all share the ultimate goal of fighting global warming and creating a more just, sustainable, and livable world,” said Rob Anderson, editor of CampusProgress.org.

On November 2, 2007, thousands of young adults will converge on College Park, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first national youth summit to tackle issues related to our climate crisis. Youth of all backgrounds will use their experience from local- and state-level climate change movements to create a fresh, positive, and inspiring vision of the future, one focused on our potential to overcome the challenges of the 21st century, build a clean energy economy, achieve energy independence, create millions of green jobs, increase global equity, and revitalize the American economy.

Campus Progress , the youth outreach arm of the Center for American Progress, is an active member of the Energy Action Coalition, the organizing force behind Power Shift. In addition to featuring environmental web-magazine content this week, Campus Progress is sponsoring nearly one hundred dedicated young climate change activists from across the country who would otherwise have been unable to attend the conference. Campus Progress will also conduct trainings and facilitate workshops designed to give students the skills and tools needed to effectively carry the message of climate change back to their campuses and communities.