TalkingStickTV - Panel discussion on "Community Organizing: Stories From Local Groups" from the Conference of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability "Celebrating 25 Years of Success"
recorded September 22, 2012 at the Good Shepard Center in Seattle, WA. Speakers include Ralph Hutchison with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Lisa Crawford with Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and Health (FRESH), Marylia Kelley with Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Pamela Kingfisher with Native Americans for a Clean Environment, Natalia Mironova with the Russian Movement for Nuclear Safety and Bob Schaeffer with Public Policy Communications.

OmeAkaEhekatl Erick Gonzalez is founder and spiritual leader of Earth Peoples United whose mission in part is to connect people to the natural and spiritual world. More information on their site at earthpeoplesunited.org.  He was a presenter at Earth Day 2012 Conference held in Portland, Oregon and co-sponsored by the Earth & Spirit Council and Portland Community College (PCC) Sylvania campus.

This is an excerpt from a taped reply to the question "What gives us hope and heart to keep working on what is best for our Earth in the face of difficult changes?" He was videotaped by Tom Hopkins and added to the EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability, special collection by Ruth Ann Barrett, Curator.

He begins by reminding us we are all in the same boat.

Paul Sorensen, Ph.D., is an engineer and entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder, Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc. discusses the issues we have with petroleum and seems to profer an environmental damage mitigation strategy, not an elimination or reversal strategy. 

Rocky Mountain Institute visited the University of California, San Diego to study and document the "microgrid" that controls and integrates electricity supply and demand on the campus. UCSD's microgrid is one of the best examples of an electricity network that provides local control yet is interconnected with the larger electricity grid. At UCSD, the microgrid provides the ability to manage 42 megawatts of generating capacity.

Learn how RMI is seeking to identify and amplify the kinds of solutions that have the potential to transform the electricity system by visiting http://www.rmi.org/electricity

ncluding a central cogeneration plant, an array of solar photovoltaic installations and a fuel cell that operates on natural gas reclaimed from a landfill site.

Gregory has written for Esquire, The New York Times, Texas
Monthly and the Austin American Statesman. His documentary href="http://www.haynesvillemovie.com" target="_blank">Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future has now become an important part of the national energy debate. wings
around the country, Kallenberg is making waves that reach from Los Angeles to Washington, DC.

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Why is it so hard to give it back? Citizen dividends in oil rich countries. Johnny West is a social entrepreneur and writer with 20 years professional experience in and around the oil industry. He began covering energy markets as a Reuters correspondent in the Middle East in the early 1990s.  He is founder of OpenOil and a transparency activist.

What does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project -- and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat.

For almost twenty years, Garth's photography of threatened wilderness regions, devastation, and the impacts on indigenous peoples, has appeared in the world's leading publications. His recent images from the boreal region of Canada have helped lead to significant victories and large new protected areas in the Northwest Territories, Quebec, and Ontario. Garth's major touring exhibit on the Tar Sands premiered on Los Angeles in 2011 and recently appeared in New York. Garth is a Fellow of the International League Of Conservation Photographers

Filmed at TEDxVictoria on November 19 2011.

Tzeporah Berman of Greenpeace describes the Energy (R)evolution in terms of her journey to find out if we have the technology TODAY to dramatically reduce dirty energy - it's possible and already happening and not too expensive.  We need stronger laws.

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era offers market-based, actionable solutions integrating transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. Built on Rocky Mountain Institute's 30 years of research and collaboration a roadmap that offers an alternative to business-as-usual with the added value of avoiding fossil fuels' huge but uncounted external costs.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird to discuss the Keystone Pipeline project at the State Department, on August 5, 2011. [Go for more video and text transcript.]