Check out this awesome blog written by Greenpeace Semester Alumni Connor Gibson, Koch “Facts” Flummoxed Over Undeniable Tar Sands Business, Keystone XL Interest
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Check out this awesome blog written by Greenpeace Semester Alumni Connor Gibson,

Koch “Facts” Flummoxed Over Undeniable Tar Sands Business, Keystone XL Interest

“This is how you kill an attack ad”
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aneaarthlycivilization: Game Over for the Climate by Dr. James Hansen GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.” Great editorial by James Hansen.  Read more here.
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aneaarthlycivilization:

Game Over for the Climate

by Dr. James Hansen

GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”

Great editorial by James Hansen.  Read more here.

Source: The New York Times

Alumni of the Week: Connor Gibson“My phenomenal time as a Greenpeace student had a lot to do with opportunities the organization provides for those willing to pursue their interests. After working hard with my fellow semester students to bring DC students to Power Shift 2009 and protesting among thousands of people for the ‘Capitol Climate Action,’ a group of us traveled to New York City to document the shadowy activity of career global warming deniers as they met at a conference funded by coal and oil interests. The importance of directly confronting those who are paid to confuse the public over something as dangerous as global climate change stuck with me ever since, and now it’s my job to prevent and document the climate crimes that are affecting us all.” Connor Gibson (Spring 2009) now works in Greenpeace’s research department. He specializes in polluter watchdog work, exposing public relation campaigns funded by Big Oil to create public doubt over climate change science and tracking how oil and coal money corrupts our government. Connor previously was an intern for the Greenpeace Semester and was a charter member of the Greenpeace Student Board. He co-taught a class at the University of Vermont with Semester alumna Jessica Serrante titled “Environmental Organizing and Effective Activism” for his senior thesis project, which earned top honors in May 2010.  You may have recently seen him taking action in Ashville to #OccupyDuke Energy and demand that they Quitcoal - or you may have seen him hounding Big Oil lobbyist Jack Gerard in the halls of congress.  
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Alumni of the Week: Connor Gibson

“My phenomenal time as a Greenpeace student had a lot to do with opportunities the organization provides for those willing to pursue their interests. After working hard with my fellow semester students to bring DC students to Power Shift 2009 and protesting among thousands of people for the ‘Capitol Climate Action,’ a group of us traveled to New York City to document the shadowy activity of career global warming deniers as they met at a conference funded by coal and oil interests. The importance of directly confronting those who are paid to confuse the public over something as dangerous as global climate change stuck with me ever since, and now it’s my job to prevent and document the climate crimes that are affecting us all.”

Connor Gibson (Spring 2009) now works in Greenpeace’s research department. He specializes in polluter watchdog work, exposing public relation campaigns funded by Big Oil to create public doubt over climate change science and tracking how oil and coal money corrupts our government. Connor previously was an intern for the Greenpeace Semester and was a charter member of the Greenpeace Student Board. He co-taught a class at the University of Vermont with Semester alumna Jessica Serrante titled “Environmental Organizing and Effective Activism” for his senior thesis project, which earned top honors in May 2010.  You may have recently seen him taking action in Ashville to #OccupyDuke Energy and demand that they Quitcoal - or you may have seen him hounding Big Oil lobbyist Jack Gerard in the halls of congress.  

Greenpeace Semester Alum Connor Gibson calls out Jack Gerard, president of American Petroleum Institute, about the oil industries Vote 4 Energy funding.

“The more transparent the discussion, the better off we’ll be.”
- Jack Gerard, Washington Post, June 17, 2008

Yesterday, the a group of climate activists (including your Semester coordinators) dressed as referrees sat in on Congress’s Energy & Commerce committee hearing on rising gas prices to red flag Big Oil spokesperson Jack Gerard’s foul plays on the American People.  After the hearing, in which Gerard claimed we could drill ourselves to energy independence (despite the fact that the U.S. consumes 20% of the world’s oil and only has 2% of it’s reserves), Semester alum Connor Gibson found him in the hall and tried to get a straight answer from Gerard regarding the cost of his company’s massive Vote4Energy campaign to mislead the American people.

Check out Greenpeace’s new blog on Jack Gerard.

You can also read more about his work here.

Keystone: How the Oil Industry Brought a Knife to a Gunfight

A non-violent “gunfight” of course ;)

Hundreds “Blow the Whistle” on Dirty Energy Money in Congress Hundreds of referees, including Bill McKibben, took to the nation’s capitol today to call out Congress on Big Oil lobbying and useless subsidies. From the press release by 350.org: “The most profitable corporations in the world do not need subsidies from the American people,” said Sen. Sanders. “We need to end Big Oil subsidies and tax breaks, and I’m going to introduce legislation to do it.”
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Hundreds “Blow the Whistle” on Dirty Energy Money in Congress

Hundreds of referees, including Bill McKibben, took to the nation’s capitol today to call out Congress on Big Oil lobbying and useless subsidies.

From the press release by 350.org:

“The most profitable corporations in the world do not need subsidies from the American people,” said Sen. Sanders. “We need to end Big Oil subsidies and tax breaks, and I’m going to introduce legislation to do it.”

MIC CHECK!

Jack Gerard, president of the nefarious American Petroleum Institute, was publicly “fact checked” yesterday during a polluter forum about the negative impacts Big Oil is having on American people, our economy and our environment. Watch the video and read more from our friends at Energy Action Coalition.

Bill McKibben: Time to get corporate cash out of Congress: I've seen enough of how Big Oil operates in Washington to know that moneyed influence is poisoning American democracy via reddit.com

Yet another hard-hitting piece by Bill McKibben - “We’ve reached the point where we’re unfazed by things that should shake us to the core.”

Greenpeace Semester alumnus and current Greenpeace researcher for the PolluterWatch project, Connor Gibson, disrupts an upcoming American Petroleum Institute commercial shoot. Watch how he exposes that the ads are nothing but staged attempts to show “citizen support” for the oil industry.

Check out the full story here and then LIKE and REBLOG if you are a clean energy citizen!