Political Solutions
Iowa Global Warming Campaign enters a new phase
The cold and snow of the Iowa Caucus has melted away, but Andrew Snow is just getting started.
Andrew is the campaign director for ELPC’s Iowa Global Warming Campaign, a grass-roots initiative that succeeded in pushing global warming to the top of the presidential campaign dialog. Prior to joining ELPC, Andrew worked for Sierra Club, most recently serving as regional representative for Iowa. He’s an experienced campaign operative and project administrator who has served on a number of issue and electoral campaigns dating to 1998.
“Last year, our focus was mainly on candidate intercepts,” Andrew says. “We were getting out in front of the candidates, getting them on video and posting it all to web. The results were inspiring—candidates that didn’t have a strong position on global warming all had one by the time the caucus get into high gear.”
Andrew notes that the remaining three candidates all have adopted positions on the issue.
Now, the campaign is shifting into a new phase that focuses on building influence and consensus about global warming in Iowa. “We want to reach more people here who are sympathetic on the issue but haven’t become actively involved yet,” he says.
This year’s campaign kicked off with a Saint Patrick’s Day event–“You Don’t Have to be Irish to Go Green.” Attendees viewed a screening of Leonardo DiCaprio’s film on the perils of global warming, The 11th Hour.
This month, the campaign will join with other environmental partners to present Earth Day Expo 2008 in Des Moines.
Visit the Iowa Global Warming Campaign to learn more about how you can get involved.
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April 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Awesome! I am really excited to get back to Iowa and go to work fighting global warming with Andrew Snow!
April 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Oh and were also getting a Hyperion oil refinery in South Dakota. If the government is committed to changing the country it would have done somethin by now. NO COMMON SENSE
April 14th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Guess what India puttin up this thing that will contribute 23 million pds of carbon dioxide to the environment and we were trying to get them not to like we had any right to say anything because we are one of the top contributors to pollution.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:31 am
This summer, Gen. Zhu Chenghu, dean of China’s National Defense University, raised the subject of weapons of mass destruction, which China rarely mentions, in connection with Taiwan. Should US forces aid Taiwan in a war, he told bewildered US visitors, “Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds … of cities will be destroyed by Chinese” nuclear weapons.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:31 am
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1117/p01s03-woap.html