Tag: <span>students</span>

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 …

Power Dialog to discuss implementation of the Clean Power Plan in PA

The national initiative pairs college students from across the state with key decision makers and legislators     Penn State faculty and students from University Park are collaborating with several other Pennsylvania institutions and the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) on the PA Power Dialog — one of 30 Power …

Power Dialog Best Practices: Michigan State University Spotlight

As April approaches, plans for Power Dialogs around the nation are becoming solidified. To make things a bit easier for state organizers in the midst of event planning, we will begin sharing best practices from from Power Dialogs across the country. Below is an example from Michigan State University of …

Demystifying group work with the Global Gender Office

Group work. Need I say more? The stuff of nightmares for many students and coworkers, these two dreaded words hold the potential to make anyone scared and discouraged. But fear not, dear Reader. I’m here to help. Today, I’m going to give you some tips for working effectively on a …

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 …

Winds of Change

A chunk of the atmosphere, fresh off the Atlantic Ocean, hit the south side of Long Island and squeezed itself into the Upper New York Bay. After careening around curve of Bay Ridge Brooklyn it whipped passed the Statue of Liberty and made its way uptown by way of the …

Have you ever wanted to save the planet? Here’s one way you can.

If you wanted advice on how to save the world who would you ask? Buffy maybe, Wonder Woman or Indiana Jones? If you were really lucky Eban Goodstein and Dallas Burtraw might give you some solid strategies on how to really protect the planet from harm. And that is exactly …

The Power Dialog: Students Lead on Climate, 4.4.16

On April 4th, 2016, The Power Dialog will support 10,000 students across the nation to engage in face-to-face dialog with top state official in their state capitols. The topic? Cutting global warming pollution 32% by 2030. How does it work? Students work with faculty to take their classes—hundreds of classes …