The Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies recently released an opinion poll on African-American viewpoints on Climate Change and the Mid-Term elections that shows that YES African-Americans really do care about the environment and want our political candidates to also care about the environment. Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus put his two cents in on the matter and gave the mainstream enviro-world a big fat “I told you so” in an article he posted on the Huffington Post.
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National TV Special Investigates the Color Lines in Recession and Recovery, Feb 12, 9:30 PM EST
Tune in to Link TV Friday, February 12, for ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery on DIRECTV Channel 375 or DISH Network Channel 9410 at 6:30 Pacific, 7:30pm Central and 8:30 pm Eastern. For those without DIRECTV/DISH, the entire show will also be available online at colorlines.com starting Feb 12. Then join Colorlines on Twitter @racialjustice, as they host a roundtable discussion on what we’ve seen. More info at Link TV.
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This past week on December 2, 2009 The White Office invited over 100 young leaders from around the country for a clean energy forum. Youth were able to speak and have their questions answered from everyone from Energy Secretary Chu, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis.  Check out the Video from the event. If you look closely you can see Checktheweather co-founder Kari Fulton sitting in the front row!

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