>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Focus the Nation: Humanity needs your leadership / Learn more on > Weds Call >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:17 -0800 >
Dear Friends, Scientists announced last week that=20 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm>within=20 five years, the Arctic might be ice-free =96 a=20 strange new open ocean where bears and other=20 beautiful creatures will no longer live. These=20 are the effects of just over 1 degree F of=20 warming, and we are facing three to ten times=20 more than that within the lifetimes of today=92s=20 students. In this time of desperate crisis, the world needs=20 your leadership. Over the next few weeks, you can=20 build the grassroots movement for sane policies=20 that can stop the heating of this earth. We have=20 the solutions to hold global warming to the low=20 end, and create a safe and prosperous future. Help us <http://www.focusthenation.org/>Focus the=20 WHOLE Nation. Please reach out to everyone you=20 know=97at high schools and grade schools, churches,=20 synagogues, mosques, rotary clubs, local=20 businesses, book clubs, Sierra Club chapters,=20 museums, bike clubs, environmental centers-- and=20 get them to commit=20 <http://www.focusthenation.org/quickquide.php>to=20 holding an educational event on January 31st. Do=20 not take no for an answer. Time is too short. Which side are you on? The side of our children=20 and their future? Or the side of those who say we=20 can=92t stop this challenge to human civilization--=20 because it will cost too much? It is time to=20 decide. Thank you to the tens of thousands of volunteers=20 across the country who are building Focus the=20 Nation events. And thank you to the many groups=20 helping make Focus the temporary center of the=20 national movement to stop global warming: the=20 <http://www.studentpirgs.org/index.html>Student=20 PIRG=92s; the <http://ssc.org/>Sierra Student=20 Coalition; our partners at the=20 <http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/>National=20 Wildlife Federation and the=20 <http://www.earthday.net/>Earth Day Network; all=20 the young leaders who headed back to their=20 campuses after=20 <http://www.powershift2007.org/>Powershift; the=20 folks at <http://www.liveearth.org/>LiveEarth,=20 <http://www.theregenerationproject.org/>Interfaith=20 Power and Light, at=20 <http://www.hillel.org/>Hillel, the College=20 <http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/>President=92s=20 Climate Commitment, at=20 <http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/>Stop Global=20 Warming, at <http://www.1-sky.org/>1-Sky, and at=20 <http://www.clifbar.com/>Clif Bar,=20 <http://www.stonyfield.com/>Stonyfield Farm,=20 <http://www.nikebiz.com/responsibility/>Nike,=20 <http://www.urbanrevision.com/>Re:Vision,=20 <http://www.sightspeed.com/>SightSpeed, and the=20 rest of our business partners and sponsors. This is the start of the kind of movement that,=20 again and again, has changed . Your leadership=20 now is critical. On a recent call, one of our organizers asked,=20 =93What else do you need from Focus the Nation?=94 He=20 received this reply: =93Give us hope=94. Your leadership gives us hope. Help Focus the=20 Nation bring us all together, and change the=20 future. Join us Wednesday, 12/17=9712 noon, eastern=20 for our organizing call. Call in to=20 1-218-339-7800, passcode 1312008. Thanks for the=20 work you are doing. Eban Goodstein, Project Director Chungin Chung, Communications Director =46OCUS PHONE-IN Join us for the next half-an-hour=20 conference call to share information and respond=20 to questions. Wednesday, December 17th, at noon=20 Eastern, 9 Pacific Time. Calls will be every=20 Wednesday at that time, so mark your calendars!=20 Call in to 1-218-339-7800, passcode 1312008. =46ocus News: *Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Voice=20 Yourself join Focus as a Sponsor! We are glad to=20 welcome=20 <http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/>Green=20 Mountain, a pioneer in producing sustainable and=20 fair trade coffee. At Voice Yourself, Woody=20 Harrelson and Laura Louie=92s=20 <http://www.voiceyourself.com/>on-line initiative=20 inspires individual action to create global=20 momentum towards simple organic living and to=20 restore balance and harmony to our planet. *National Campus Energy Challenge. Join schools=20 across the country and see what=20 <http://ncec08.org/intro.html>you can save in=20 =46ebruary! *Send Updates and Endorsements=20 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Let us know=20 what=92s going on!! * Forty Percent of Car Trips are within two miles=20 of your home: Take Clif Bar=92s Two-Mile Challenge=20 and ride or walk instead!=20 <http://www.2milechallenge.com/ride>Check it out. *Donate to Focus=97Stop Your Junk Mail!=20 <http://www.41pounds.org/>Sign up with 41 Pounds,=20 and a portion of the income is donated directly=20 to us here at Focus the Nation. *Re:Vision the world.=20 <http://www.urbanrevision.com/>Share your passion=20 for sustainable design *Missed Greenbuild? Check out=20 <http://www.greenbuild365.org/>videos on green=20 building solutions. *The President=92s Climate Commitment: Has your=20 University or College President=20 <http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org/>signed=20 on? New Books on Fighting Global Warming On video: Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein=20 <http://www.inspiredprotagonist.com/blog/eban_and_jon_global_warming_crusade= rs>talk=20 about their recent books on building the global=20 warming solutions movement--=20 <http://www.fightingforlove.com/>Fighting for=20 Love in the Century of Extinction, and=20 <http://www.ignitionthebook.com/>Ignition. Other=20 recent books of note: Gary Braasch=92s=20 <http://www.earthunderfire.com/>Earth Under Fire;=20 Laurie David=92s=20 <http://www.scholastic.com/downtoearth/index.htm>Down=20 to Earth Guide (for elementary school); and=20 <http://www.billmckibben.com/fightglobalwarmingnow/index.html>Fight=20 Global Warming Now from Step it Up. =46ocus Update is the e-bulletin of Focus the=20 Nation. If would prefer not to receive this=20 update, please reply to this message with=20 UNSUBSCRIBE in the header. Eban Goodstein Project Director =46ocus the Nation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.focusthenation.org 503-342-6863
