Last night, Repower America (which is the group founded by Al Gore after winning the Nobel Prize for Peace a few years ago), launched their latest campaign. It's a very interactive - showing the people who are behind clean energy initiatives talking about them in their own words.
They call it The Wall!
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You can check out the new campaign and add your own video here. It looks like they already have hundreds of videos there already, from individuals and companies that are supporting this effort.
I think this builds on the success of 350.org's International Day of Climate Action last Saturday. That event was such a success, in my opinion, because it wasn't a top-down thing. It left every action open to the folks on the ground, and thus fostered incredible creativity.
According to Dave Boundy of Repower America, you can post pretty much whatever kind of video you want to. Why is clean energy important to you? What are you doing to reduce your own carbon footprint? The idea is to show that there is strength in numbers and that there are more people out there than we might think who are actively involved with this.
And we need all of the enthusiasm we can muster on this topic, especially with the idiots like Inhofe trying to toss cold water on the efforts.
On a related topic, if you're interested in reading about the hearings that have been going on this week on the Kerry/Boxer bill, Grist has a good summary.
So, here I was going to post a clip of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which is of course what the title of this diary refers to. But that's a really depressing movie, and I didn't want to make this a downer! So, instead I'll do a poll!