Building the Clean Energy Economy

This Mother’s Day is a very special one for me. I’m expecting my first child in just a few weeks. It’s a time filled with anticipation and hope. But most of all, this new addition to my family and my life has given even more urgency to our effort to create an inclusive green economy.

It’s pretty hard not to want to leave behind a healthier, greener, more prosperous world when it’s your own child who will be living in it. Maybe that’s why women have contributed so much over the decades to movements for justice and peace.

Students at the College of William and Mary assembled at a Bank of America location in Williamsburg, VA on May 1 to protest the bank's funding of mountaintop removal. Alongside local activists, the students waved signs and chanted outside the building, while participants with Bank of America cards went inside to close their accounts. A couple members of the group simulateneously handed out fliers at nearby businesses. As the location was along a major thoroughfare, the protesters frequently heard supportive honks from passing cars and observed locals curiously reading their signs.

In just 7 days, hundreds of young people from every corner of New York will converge in Albany for Power Shift NY. And have you heard the news? Bill McKibben’s going to be there too.

Regular registration for PSNY ends Sunday at midnight! Register now for just $20 before the price goes up!

INCREDIBLE SPEAKERS

• Bill McKibben, Co-Founder of 350.org and leader of the campaign against Keystone XL.

• Josh Fox, Director of Gasland

• Sandra Steingraber, Biologist, author and winner of this year’s Heinz Award for her work to ban fracking in NY.

Tomorrow is Tax Day -- many of us are anxiously awaiting out tax returns or getting ready to write a big fat check to the government.

Due to corporate tax breaks many large US companies are not required to pay income taxes to the federal government. In fact, 2009 and 2010, Great Plains (KCP&L's Parent Company) also avoided all state income taxes and received refunds totaling more than $5 million.

Meanwhile, KCPL is raining rates left and right. Ratepayers in Missouri will pay a 15% increase in the coming year.