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Presenter
| Billy Parish | |
| Billy Parish is making global warming cool again. Since dropping out of Yale in early 2003, Billy Parish has rallied students at hundreds of colleges around the Northeast to take on global warming. The Climate Campaign is aimed at getting colleges to buy renewable energy, creating a market for clean energy and moving new energy technologies into the main stream. Students at more than 130 campuses, including every Ivy League school, have carried the message to their administrators. The campaign organized major climate conferences at Harvard and Yale, and helped get the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts to commit to reduce their global warming emissions in line with standards adopted by dozens of countries around the world. Most recently Billy pushed ahead with creation of a national student coalition on climate change and has served notice to the Bush Administration that it expects the U.S. to meet emissions reduction targets set in the Kyoto accords, which the administration has forsaken. |
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Billy has been named a 2004 winner of the Brower Youth Award, the nation’s most prestigious recognition of young activists. |
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