[bioundgrd] Fwd: Clean Energy Revolution - Lecture event on March 3 and Breakthrough Fellowship program

[Janice Chang]

>From: Bo Zhao <bzhao at MIT.EDU>
>To: ugadmins at mit.edu
>Subject: Clean Energy Revolution - Lecture event 
>on March 3 and Breakthrough Fellowship program
>Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:07:48 -0500
>
>Clean Energy Revolution
>Creating a Transformational Student Movement
>
>An Event with Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
>authors of "The Death of Environmentalism" & Break Through
>
>Date: Monday, March 3rd
>Time: 6:00 -?ì 7:30 PM
>Location: Room 6-120
>
>Shellenberger and Nordhaus, authors of the 
>famous 2004 article "The Death of 
>Environmentalism," will present their vision for 
>a unified, investment and development-focused 
>national energy future. Their recent book, Break 
>Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to 
>the Politics of Possibility, details this 
>message and the roles we can all play in a 
>renewed "post-environmentalism" that unites 
>human and environmental interests under a single 
>cohesive platform.
>
>Shellenberger and Nordhaus will discuss their 
>policy proposals, the necessity of a new 
>approach to environmental problems, and the 
>specific ways in which young people stand poised 
>to play a major role in the transitions 
>necessary in the years ahead. They will discuss 
>Breakthrough Generation -- a new youth 
>initiative targeting the energy and innovation 
>of young progressives and environmentalists, 
>which is awarding ten $5,000 Fellowships to the 
>country's top young organizers and thinkers. 
>Interested students should visit 
><http://www.breakthroughgen.org/>www.breakthroughgen.org.
>
>----
>
>Reviews of Break Through:
>
>  "To win, Nordhaus and Shellenberger 
>persuasively argue, environmentalists must stop 
>congratulating themselves for their own 
>willingness to confront inconvenient truths and 
>must focus on building a politics of shared hope 
>rather than relying on a politics of 
>fear." --New York Times
>
>"If heeded, Nordhaus and Shellenberger's call 
>for an optimistic outlook -- embracing economic 
>dynamism and creative potential -- will surely 
>do more for the environment than any U.N. report 
>or Nobel Prize." --Wall Street Journal
>
>"Green groups may carp, but the truth is the 
>book could turn out to be the best thing to 
>happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's 
>Silent Spring." --Wired Magazine
>
>---
>More about the Breakthrough Fellowship:
>
>Breakthrough Generation, the youth initiative of 
>the Breakthrough Institute, is now awarding ten 
>$5,000 Fellowships to the country's top young 
>organizers and thinkers.  We are seeking highly 
>motivated, capable, and innovative young leaders 
>who want to pursue a campus or local clean 
>energy project while advancing the larger 
>movement for a $500 billion federal investment 
>in clean energy to spark an energy revolution 
>and win on global warming.
>
>
>
>The Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think 
>tank directed by Michael Shellenberger and Ted 
>Nordhaus, is working on several fronts - 
>including political candidates, forward-thinking 
>philanthropists, social change agents, and the 
>youth climate movement - to advance a major 
>federal investment in the clean energy 
>economy.  We believe that young people today are 
>uniquely positioned to advance a more powerful 
>movement and wish to support their efforts.
>
>
>
><http://www.thebreakthrough.org/action.shtml>http://www.thebreakthrough.org/action.shtml
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