Energize America – two years on

It’s been almost two years since the Energize America experiment got underway and today, just coming back from the YearlyKos panel that described the new perspectives ahead of us, I wanted to retrace the history of this unprecedented attempt at netroots-run policy-making.


Bill McKibben, who participated to another YearlyKos panel on global warming, was kind enough to write the words above more than a year ago. He is himself involved in another amazing netroots-born effort, Step It Up, to call for concrete policy measures to fight global warming. Coordinating our efforts, linking our communities and building on one another’s collective energies will be a big part of what we hope to do in the coming months. Adam Siegel, who chaired the Energize America in Chicago last week, will put up some diaries over the coming days summarising the presentation we made, summarizing our achievements up to date (up to and including advanced discussions with Congresspersons on proposed legislation) and highlighting the opportunities and challenges we have ahead of us. But it’s worth looking back on how we got there.

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