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On January 31st, 2008 Focus the Nation will coordinate over 1000 schools, businesses, faith and civic organizations in the largest day of events focused on global warming the U.S. has ever seen.

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Because of your votes, we're the winners of July's MySpace Impact Award for Environmentalism. Thanks so much for your support, and big ups to The Wild Dolphin Foundation and Erin Brockovich for their efforts as well.

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Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction:
How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming by Professor Eban Goodstein

Unchecked, global warming threatens to destroy one of every two animals, birds, plants, reptiles, forests, fish and other creatures alive today on the earth. This looming ecological collapse will only be arrested if we can articulate and embrace what the natural world means to each of us, and then fight a series of hard political battles to preserve creation. On a subject about which it is easy to feel despair, Goodstein offers a realistic, ambitious, and hopeful political solution to avoid a century of mass extinction, a vision grounded in a moral view that embraces the interconnection of all life forms on the planet. [more...]



Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement Edited by Professor Jon Isham and Sissel Waage

The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even our way of life is dire. So why isn’t America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe?

It may lie between the covers of this book. Igntion brings together some of the world’s finest thinkers and advocates to jump start the ultimate green revolution. Including celebrated writers like Bill McKibben and renowned scholars like Gus Speth, as well as young activists, the authors draw on direct experience in grassroots organization, education, law, and social leadership. Their approaches are various, [more...]

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Invest in the Clean Energy RevolutionTo provide the low-cost climate stabilization tools that today's young people will need in the near future, the US government should invest $25 billion dollars per...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:22:00 PST

Our climate movement has grown up!!!

With 7 days till Jan 31st we have gone from aspiring to achieve 1000 events nationally to attaining over 1400 registered events on our website. Events range from small churches showing screenings of t...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:14:00 PST

Focus the Nation Is Totally Sanjaya

If you're anything like me, you've probably wasted more time on MySpace than you care to admit: denying friend requests from bad bands and fake profiles, commenting on your friends' latest ridiculous ...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:59:00 PST

Live Earth, Fighting For Love, Igniting a Country

By Eban Goodstein, Focus the Nation DirectorBehind the spectacle of last weekend's Live Earth events10 concerts on 7 continents, stars galoreis a critical mission: Building the grassroots social mov...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:25:00 PST

Boston Middle School Organizes Teach-In!

Breaking News: The Boston Latin School held their global warming teach-in at MIT on May 19th. Dozens of Middle Schools around the city participated in this youth summit....
Posted by Focus the Nation on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

What's hot at middlebury college

It's not just the unusually warm weather, there are also some great projects being done by students in the January Term class Focusing the Nation on a Clean Energy Future.  Jon Isham, a professor...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:19:00 PST

We're getting started!

Hey everybody!  Me and eight other student from Middlebury College have started this myspace site to promote the organization Focus the Nation.  Focus the NAtion is a group trying to initiat...
Posted by Focus the Nation on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:55:00 PST