Peter Roquemore

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Location: Washington, DC
Interest Area: Building the Clean Energy Economy

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Building a Movement at Sprog

Sprog trainers Becks Kollins and Zeke Perkins practice trainings delivery

This past weekend I helped to facilitate a T4T (Training for Trainers) for the Sierra Student Coalition’s Rust Belt Region Summer Leadership Training Program (Sprog for short). The trainings teams for all of the Sprog programs are hard at work creating a transformative experience for changemakers across the nation, preparing to share with them the skills they will use to run campaigns and build power in their own communities.

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Thank You For Your Courage

Courage manifests itself in our lives in many different ways. From the fleeting and all too subtle moments we might not catch until after reflection stretching to the inspirational and daring acts that buzz across social media.  While our backgrounds, experience, strategy, and issues may vary, courage is the common thread that weaves throughout our rising movement. Instilled within each and every one of us is the courage to keep fighting in the face of daunting odds. Inspired by Aldo Leopold I’ve come to translate my own courage as “green fire,”

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Photo by hddod via Flickr

This summer I went from a hawk rocking, megaphone wielding, firebrand climate activist to a business casual, policy reading, energy and legislative outreach intern.  Initially awkward, this transition has provided me with insight into a missing piece of our fight against dirty energy and the Keystone XL.  Our fight against the Keystone XL, dirty coal, and disastrous fracking will not achieve our long term clean energy goals if we do not support policies like H.R.3307 for the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for clean en

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