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The Power Dialog: Pennsylvania Announces First Keynote Speaker

The Power Dialog, in collaboration with PERC, excitedly announces Secretary Quigley as the keynote speaker for the PA Power Dialog. As the keynote speaker, Secretary Quigley will address students and faculty from across the state of Pennsylvania on April 4th 2016, and add insight into Pennsylvania’s approach to the Clean …

Call for Action on Climate Change: Power Dialog

Dear Friends, We are circulating this call to participate in the national Power Dialog in April 2016. Help support 10,000 students to engage in face-to-face dialog with state-level regulators in all fifty states. The topic? Implementing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. How will it work? Hundreds of faculty nationwide will take their …

Bard College Students Organize Nationwide Dialog on Climate: Students in 20 States to Talk with Policy-Makers

For the last nine months, four students at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley have been meeting in a basement office on campus. Their mission: to catalyze a nationwide conversation about state-level action on climate change. Undergraduates Xaver Kandler and Maggie Berke, and environmental policy graduate students Meredith Lavalley and …

Hearing the Student Voice on Clean Energy: Nationwide Dialogs Focus on State Climate Action

By Eban Goodstein Becca Krasky is a first year student at Macalester College in Minnesota. If someday she has kids, they will be college-age around the year 2045. She will be in her late 40’s. And by that year, we will know the future of the earth. We will know …

Energy, Climate, and Citizenship Education: An Interview with Eban Goodstein

On Monday April 4th, thousands of college and university students will be participating in the Power Dialog. Students and supporting faculty will engage in face-to-face dialogs with top environmental and energy officials in dozens of states. The topic? State-level action to help meet the US climate commitment of 30% cuts in …

A Climate Resolution for the New Year

Know a college student or a teacher?  Then you can help 10,000 students around the country, and hundreds in your own state, change their future. The week of April 4, 2016 The Power Dialog is organizing conversations in every state capitol between students and the top regulators in their state charged with …

Citizens from around the world impact Paris negotiations

At this moment word leaders, diplomats and politicians from everywhere on the earth are meeting in Paris to discuss the planet’s fate at the 21st Conference of the Parties. But this time, however, the citizens of this planet are watching, participating, and actively shaping the atmosphere of the negotiations. It …

State Regulator Contact List

We are here to help you and the Power Dialog have the maximum possible impact! Here you will find a list of state regulators by state you can reach out to about attending a Power Dialog event.

State Organizer Starter Kit

  Presents: State Organizer Starter Kit   We at the Power Dialog are thrilled to have you on our team! Thank you for joining us and for your commitment to making student voices on energy policy heard by those in power. As a state organizer you have the opportunity to …

The Moral Ark of the Universe: The Pope, Paris and Power

The Pope’s visit to the U.S. last week focused the nation on a moral challenge of biblical scale. Like Noah, we are called now to build an ark. But our ark will be the entire earth itself—a world rewired soon with clean energy. Global political leaders will propose half an …