Green Corps 2008 organizer Melisa Stodiek organized a Climate Activism Training in Miami, FL featuring global warming author Bill McKibben and Chesapeake Climate Action Network Director Mike Tidwell. More than 200 citizens attended the training.

Global warming is the greatest challenge facing the environmental movement.  Green Corps organizers and graduates are working at national, state and local levels to mobilize the American public for bold solutions. 

At the federal level, Green Corps organizers partnered with National Environmental Trust to mobilize thousands of citizens, businesses and religious groups for strong global warming solutions in the fall of 2007. Green Corps organizers across the country recruited more than 4,000 citizen activists who are putting pressure on Congress to pass a bill requiring 80 percent reductions in global warming pollution by 2050.  

At the state level, Green Corps organizers working with Minnesota Environmental Partnership mobilized citizen support for state-based global warming solutions in 2006. In rural districts across the state, Green Corps organizers conducted community meetings featuring screenings of An Inconvenient Truth to activate citizens to contact their elected officials. They won a new state law to require that by the year 2020, 25 percent of the state’s energy must come from renewable sources. 

In New England, Environment Massachusetts Director Frank Gorke (Class of 2000), VPIRG Energy Advocate James Moore (Class of 2001), and Clean Water Action Campaign Director Roger Smith (Class of 2002) are working with governors in Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut to institute a landmark program capping global warming pollution from power plants in the region and implement strong state climate plans. 

At the municipal level, Colleen Sarna (Class of 2002), the director of the Sierra Club's Cool Cities campaign, mobilizes communities to join the U.S. Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement.