UPDATED: Van Jones' msg to liberals: Don't give in to despair! (now with hate mail!)

by Eclectablog

Cross-posted at Eclectablog.com.

Last week in Ann Arbor, Van Jones spoke at the Ecology Center's 40th anniversary. Held on the campus of the University of Michigan, the event was a fundraiser but also an opportunity for Van Jones to share his thoughts on Michigan's role in the environmental movement, the success of places like the Ecology Center and why now is not the time for progressive liberals to give in to despair. In fact, NOW, he said, is the time when we're most needed.

Ecology Center 40th Anniversary Celebration at the UofM Michigan League

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My Telephone Conference with Van Jones, Dolores Huerta & Pam Tau Lee

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

I was one of the bloggers invited to participate in this telephone press conference with these three advocates of human rights and environmental justice.

It was announced at this press conference that Van Jones, Dolores Huerta and Pam Tau Lee have joined the fight against Proposition 23.  The three endorsed Communities United Against the Dirty Energy Prop, a grassroots coalition established to engage low income Californians and communities of color against Prop 23, the ballot measure written to nix in California our climate change law, AB 32.

The message from the phone conference was that Prop 23 is a very underhanded measure designed to continue pollution that is now harming our health, and to protect Big Oil from having to compete with green energy investments that are now booming in California. It is not a job protector but a destroyer of jobs and good health.

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Don’t Do as the Senate Does – Act Now on Climate Change

by jamesboyce

2010 has been a year of missed opportunities for the environment. From no progress or worse on the international climate action stage, to a clean energy bill in the U.S. Senate that is still on ice despite the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, it’s enough to make you want to throw up your hands and buy beach-front property on the Bering Sea.

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"NOAA attempts to clean up oil spill research efforts" eKos Earthship Wednesday

by eKos

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