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"  Orchestrating the Youthquake: May Boeve and Kelly Blynn   As students at Middlebury College, May Boeve and Kelly Blynn were part of a climate change group that persuaded the school to go carbon neutral by 2016. In 2008, Boeve, Blynn, and six others took this idea global and called it 350.org. With 5,200 events in 181 countries since then, 350 has become the powerhouse in organizing young people to act against climate change. The name comes from 350 parts per million, the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere (a scary fact: in January, we were at 389 parts per million), and the initial goal of the group was to burn the number into our consciousness and pressure politicians to make CO2 reduction a priority at the Copenhagen climate talks last December. 350 succeeded in the former, as evidenced by more than 25,000 photos organizers received showing 350 rallies in places as far-flung as Kazakhstan, China, and Ethiopia. And while no real progress was made on climate change at Copenhagen, the two cofounders were inspired when &amp;quot;by the end of the talks, 112 countries out of 192 were saying that they supported the goal,&amp;quot; Boeve says. &amp;quot;Unfortunately,&amp;quot; Blynn chimes in, &amp;quot;they weren&amp;#039;t the most powerful countries.&amp;quot; Now the group is teaming up with the 10:10 campaign in Britain and asking us to focus on a new number and a new date: October 10, 2010. Blynn says on that day activists will host &amp;quot;work parties&amp;quot;\u2014breaking ground on new, local clean energy and sustainability projects, and in so doing, shaming our politicians into getting to work too. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re already above 350 parts per million,&amp;quot; Boeve says. &amp;quot;10:10 is about urgency.&amp;quot; Next: Feeding the Masses    Feeding the Masses: Nikki Henderson  Nikki Henderson, who has an MA from UCLA in African-American studies and economic justice, was a rising star in clean-energy circles, where she worked closely with Green for All&amp;#039;s founder, Van Jones, known as the &amp;quot;Martin Luther King Jr. of the green jobs movement.&amp;quot; But she says that her &amp;quot;heart and soul were always in food justice,&amp;quot; so in January she became executive director of the People&amp;#039;s Grocery in West Oakland, California, a kind of Whole Foods for the everyman. Among its goals: to provide fresh, good food to people of all income levels. &amp;quot;People tend not to make the connection between food and health care,&amp;quot; Henderson says, &amp;quot;but if we can show on a local level how integrated they are, maybe we can change the national conversation\u2014and the food system.&amp;quot; Next: Dewonking Climate Change   Dewonking Climate Change: Zo\u00EB Caron  Canadian Zo\u00EB Caron literally cowrote the book on climate change\u2014that is, the book for those who are a tad unclear about the greenhouse effect, renewable energy, and the Kyoto Protocol. Caron got the idea for Global Warming for Dummies in January 2006 while she was studying for the exams she&amp;#039;d missed; she&amp;#039;d instead been attending the United Nations climate change negotiations in Montreal. Then a junior at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, she teamed up with Elizabeth May (now the leader of Canada&amp;#039;s Green Party), and together they wrote the book. &amp;quot;The publisher was like, `You&amp;#039;re an undergrad?! We knew you were a student, but we thought you were doing a PhD!&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; Caron says. She quickly developed a reputation as someone who could talk about climate change, and what to do about it, in layman&amp;#039;s terms: &amp;quot;No one wants to read all these scientific papers\u2014although I did, in order to write the book.&amp;quot; Now as the youngest-ever president of the Sierra Club Canada and the climate policy and advocacy specialist for the World Wildlife Fund Canada, Caron is focusing on the G8 and G20 summits in Ontario later this year. Her goal is to hold countries to commitments to phase out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies and to report on what countries have done...in words we can understand.  Next: Generating New Heat   Generating New Heat: Erin Noble  Erin Noble, not long out of Duke University, saw an opportunity to overhaul her home state&amp;#039;s archaic energy policies. She did this the old-fashioned way. She cofounded Renew Missouri, and with her colleagues she educated policymakers one by one about legislation that would make it easier to connect solar- and wind-energy systems to the grid, and she codirected a ballot initiative statewide. The Missouri Clean Energy Initiative passed in 2008 with 66 percent of the vote. And that&amp;#039;s impressive; we&amp;#039;re talking Missouri here, not California. But Missourians are practical souls: The initiative is projected to save them $331 million on their electric bills over the next 20 years and to create thousands of green-collar jobs. It&amp;#039;s not the feds but &amp;quot;states that are leading the way on renewable energy policy,&amp;quot; Noble says. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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