Focus The Nation

I don’t usually hijack posts, but I saw this over on La Marguerite’s blog and thought that it was something I wanted to lend awareness to (and I’m sure she won’t mind).  Focus The Nation is an event that has been in the works for over a year.  It’s happening on January 31 all over the country, just check the map to find a location near you.  But what is Focus The Nation?  I think it would be easier to just get the info from their site:

Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America—creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses, and directly engaging millions of students and citizens with the nation’s decision-makers. Focus the Nation will culminate January 31st, 2008 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. Our intent is to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the challenge of our generation.

If you can’t make a ‘teach-in’ event on January 31, perhaps you’ll get a look at a screening of The 2% Solution on Wednesday, January 30 8pm EST. 

Focus the Nation will stream a free, live, interactive webcast called The 2% SOLUTION. Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Our goal is 10,000 screenings—and a change in the course of history.

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Source: La Marguerite, Focus The Nation

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