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Greenpeace has launched a new video on YouTube to co-incide with their latest report “Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook?”, produced by the European Renewable Energy Council, which provides a practical blueprint for rapidly cutting energy-related CO2.

The video features JFK arguing that “climate change threatens our very existence. Now is the time for an energy revolution.” Of course, JFK never said it, but the video went through a very good montage and a computer-generated process to achieve this.

The video can be seen at the following address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8dLHZ6jKFc

Phil Aroneanu from 350.org shares some secrets about using the Internet to mobilize people to fight climate change as well as what it's like to run a campaign in 10 different languages.

Jed Sundwall: Are you in D.C.?

Phil Aroneanu: I am. I'm the only one in our crew in D.C., except for a couple of our interns. We're all spread out. There are a couple of us in San Francisco, well four of us in San Francisco, two of us in Vermont and one in Budapest. And we'll be hiring elsewhere around the world.

This entry originally appeared in the Portland Oregonian on June 20, 2008 under the title "Climate Change's Other Inconvenience." 

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Today’s event ran without a hitch! Bill McKibben did a fantastic presentation on Deep Economy. Good friend, Pat Coyle, did one heck of a job pulling this all together!