Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
2-12-2009
Abstract
If today's youth are supposed to be politically apathetic, more engaged in Facebook than the fate of the world, no one told Jessy Tolkan. The 26-year-old activist spent Nov. 2 to 5 in Washington at the Power Shift summit, where over 6,000 college students from every state in the country gathered to agitate for federal action on climate change. For Tolkan, the executive director for the Energy Action Coalition, an umbrella group of youth-oriented environmental groups that helped organize the conference, Power Shift was "by far the most incredible thing that I have ever experienced in my life.
Keywords
University of Dayton Rivers Institute, Fitz Center for Leadership in Community, River Stewards, Great Miami River
eCommons Citation
Horan, Tracey, "Climate Change: One Light Bulb at a Time?" (2009). Blog Archive: River Reflections at the University of Dayton. 6.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/rivers_blog/6
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