Princeton SURGE

Events

Here is a list of upcoming and recent events.

Thursday, September 27th Walking on Thin Ice: Tackling Climate Change and Achieving Environmental Sustainability

Date:September 27, 2007
Time:4:30 pm
Location:010 East Pyne Hall
Description:A talk on climate change presented by David de Rothschild, followed by a panel with IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lead author and Professor Michael Oppenheimer along with WWS \ MPA Dennis Markatos-Soriano.
This event is sponsored by WWS STEP (Science Technology & Environmental Policy), SURGE, The Pace Center, PEI (Princeton Environmental Institute), Water Watch, Outdoor Action, Greening Princeton, and the Princeton Office of Sustainability. For additional information, please contact Masha Mimran (mmimran@princeton.edu) or Dennis Markatos-Soriano (markatos@princeton.edu).
David de Rothschild is a British adventurer and environmentalist. He is the youngest Brit to have been to both poles, and he is a triathlete. He is the founder of a nonprofit, Adventure Ecology, and the author of “Global Warming Survival Handbook,” the official companion to the “Live Earth” Concerts. He is a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader” and a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer.”
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP). He joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with the nonprofit Environmental Defense, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Global and Regional Atmosphere Program. His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. His earth system research explores the potential effects of global warming, including the consequences of warming for the major ice sheets and sea level, ecosystems and species, and the nitrogen cycle. His policy research explores ways to interpret and implement the objective of avoiding "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. The role played by nongovernmental organizations in the policy arena, alternative approaches to decision-making on problems of global change, and the potential value of precautionary frameworks inform his investigations. He serves as a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Climate Variability and Change. In the late 1980's, Dr. Oppenheimer and a handful of other scientists organized two workshops under the auspices of the United Nations that helped precipitate the negotiations that resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed at the 1992 Earth Summit) and the Kyoto Protocol. He is also a co-founder of the Climate Action Network. He received an S.B. in chemistry from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago, and pursued post-doctoral research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Oppenheimer is the author of more than 80 articles published in professional journals and is co-author (with Robert H. Boyle) of a 1990 book, Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect.
Dennis Markatos-Soriano is a 2nd year Master’s student in Public Affairs in the STEP program at the Woodrow Wilson School with a focus on global warming and sustainable energy policy. He co-founded SURGE in 1998 as a progressive network that connected hundreds of campuses throughout the country while a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a BA in Economics & International Studies in 2001. He helped to start a green transportation service in the Triangle area of NC called Greenway Transit, LLC, which includes a biofuels fleet and bicycle rickshaws. He is a co-chair of Princeton SURGE.

November 2nd - 4th
(Friday-Sunday) Power Shift 2007

Date:November 2nd - 4th
Location:Washington, D.C.
Description:All across the country, tens of thousands of young adults are rising to confront the global warming challenge. Over the past two years, more than 350 of our colleges and universities have demonstrated their leadership and determination to create a clean energy future by adopting innovative policies that reduce their carbon footprints. As the efforts of youth are achieving dozens of clean energy victories in cities and states across the nation, it is becoming clear that young people are better positioned today than ever before to advance an inspiring new vision for America.
On November 2, 2007, thousands of young adults will converge on Washington, D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever national youth summit to solve the climate crisis. Youth of all backgrounds will use their experience from local and state level climate change movements to create a fresh, positive, and inspiring vision of the future, one focused on our potential to overcome the challenges of the 21st century, build a clean energy economy, achieve energy independence, create millions of green jobs, increase global equity, and revitalize the American economy.
Power Shift will take the climate movement to new levels. At this conference, leaders of our generation will share ideas, learn new skills, make new connections, establish a national voice for our generation, and send a united message to our national leaders: we are moving beyond the same old special interests, empty promises, and inadequate results to embrace a new paradigm that leverages our strengths and achieves what is possible for our future. Something incredible is happening.
Our organizing committee has set out three ambitious goals:
Make the U.S. Presidential candidates and Congress take global warming seriously. It is widely accepted that the next U.S. president must make global warming a priority for us to solve the crisis before we reach a point of no return. With youth voting rates on the rise, we have the opportunity to drastically affect the 2008 Presidential Election and ensure our next president puts us on a path to stopping climate change.

Empower a truly diverse network of young leaders. The organizers of Power Shift understand the limitations of mainstream environmentalism and its history of engaging primarily white, highly educated, privileged citizens on the left while leaving behind other communities. We must diversify our movement to include every community in America and shift our culture towards one of sustainability and justice for everyone, addressing traditional racial, ethnic, geographic, and ideological divisions.

Achieve broad geographic diversity. We want this convergence to represent nearly every Congressional district in the United States in order to demand scientifically based solutions from all who represent us. Only when this fire is burning in every state of the union with broad awareness and pointed activism from the ground up, will we have the political power needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.

That's where you come in. To reach our goal of uniting thousands of young people at Power Shift, we need your help. Please share this message with at least ten friends and help grow our movement. The shift starts with you.
For more information, or if you are interested in coordinating Princeton's role in Power Shift 2007, e-mail Dennis Markatos-Soriano (markatos@princeton.edu) or check out www.powershift07.org

Thursday, September 27th	Walking on Thin Ice: Tackling Climate Change and Achieving Environmental Sustainability
Date:September 27, 2007 Time:4:30 pm Location:010 East Pyne Hall Description:A talk on climate change presented by David de Rothschild, followed by a panel with IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lead author and Professor Michael Oppenheimer along with WWS \ MPA Dennis Markatos-Soriano. This event is sponsored by WWS STEP (Science Technology & Environmental Policy), SURGE, The Pace Center, PEI (Princeton Environmental Institute), Water Watch, Outdoor Action, Greening Princeton, and the Princeton Office of Sustainability. For additional information, please contact Masha Mimran (mmimran@princeton.edu) or Dennis Markatos-Soriano (markatos@princeton.edu). David de Rothschild is a British adventurer and environmentalist. He is the youngest Brit to have been to both poles, and he is a triathlete. He is the founder of a nonprofit, Adventure Ecology, and the author of “Global Warming Survival Handbook,” the official companion to the “Live Earth” Concerts. He is a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader” and a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer.” Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP). He joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with the nonprofit Environmental Defense, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Global and Regional Atmosphere Program. His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. His earth system research explores the potential effects of global warming, including the consequences of warming for the major ice sheets and sea level, ecosystems and species, and the nitrogen cycle. His policy research explores ways to interpret and implement the objective of avoiding "dangerous anthropogenic interference" with the climate system. The role played by nongovernmental organizations in the policy arena, alternative approaches to decision-making on problems of global change, and the potential value of precautionary frameworks inform his investigations. He serves as a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Climate Variability and Change. In the late 1980's, Dr. Oppenheimer and a handful of other scientists organized two workshops under the auspices of the United Nations that helped precipitate the negotiations that resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed at the 1992 Earth Summit) and the Kyoto Protocol. He is also a co-founder of the Climate Action Network. He received an S.B. in chemistry from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago, and pursued post-doctoral research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Oppenheimer is the author of more than 80 articles published in professional journals and is co-author (with Robert H. Boyle) of a 1990 book, Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect. Dennis Markatos-Soriano is a 2nd year Master’s student in Public Affairs in the STEP program at the Woodrow Wilson School with a focus on global warming and sustainable energy policy. He co-founded SURGE in 1998 as a progressive network that connected hundreds of campuses throughout the country while a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a BA in Economics & International Studies in 2001. He helped to start a green transportation service in the Triangle area of NC called Greenway Transit, LLC, which includes a biofuels fleet and bicycle rickshaws. He is a co-chair of Princeton SURGE.

November 2nd - 4th (Friday-Sunday)	Power Shift 2007
Date:November 2nd - 4th Location:Washington, D.C. Description:All across the country, tens of thousands of young adults are rising to confront the global warming challenge. Over the past two years, more than 350 of our colleges and universities have demonstrated their leadership and determination to create a clean energy future by adopting innovative policies that reduce their carbon footprints. As the efforts of youth are achieving dozens of clean energy victories in cities and states across the nation, it is becoming clear that young people are better positioned today than ever before to advance an inspiring new vision for America. On November 2, 2007, thousands of young adults will converge on Washington, D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever national youth summit to solve the climate crisis. Youth of all backgrounds will use their experience from local and state level climate change movements to create a fresh, positive, and inspiring vision of the future, one focused on our potential to overcome the challenges of the 21st century, build a clean energy economy, achieve energy independence, create millions of green jobs, increase global equity, and revitalize the American economy. Power Shift will take the climate movement to new levels. At this conference, leaders of our generation will share ideas, learn new skills, make new connections, establish a national voice for our generation, and send a united message to our national leaders: we are moving beyond the same old special interests, empty promises, and inadequate results to embrace a new paradigm that leverages our strengths and achieves what is possible for our future. Something incredible is happening. Our organizing committee has set out three ambitious goals: Make the U.S. Presidential candidates and Congress take global warming seriously. It is widely accepted that the next U.S. president must make global warming a priority for us to solve the crisis before we reach a point of no return. With youth voting rates on the rise, we have the opportunity to drastically affect the 2008 Presidential Election and ensure our next president puts us on a path to stopping climate change. Empower a truly diverse network of young leaders. The organizers of Power Shift understand the limitations of mainstream environmentalism and its history of engaging primarily white, highly educated, privileged citizens on the left while leaving behind other communities. We must diversify our movement to include every community in America and shift our culture towards one of sustainability and justice for everyone, addressing traditional racial, ethnic, geographic, and ideological divisions. Achieve broad geographic diversity. We want this convergence to represent nearly every Congressional district in the United States in order to demand scientifically based solutions from all who represent us. Only when this fire is burning in every state of the union with broad awareness and pointed activism from the ground up, will we have the political power needed to take on the fossil fuel industry. That's where you come in. To reach our goal of uniting thousands of young people at Power Shift, we need your help. Please share this message with at least ten friends and help grow our movement. The shift starts with you. For more information, or if you are interested in coordinating Princeton's role in Power Shift 2007, e-mail Dennis Markatos-Soriano (markatos@princeton.edu) or check out www.powershift07.org