State Regulator Contact List
We are here to help you and the Power Dialog have the maximum possible impact! Here you will find a list of state regulators by state you can reach out to about attending a Power Dialog event.
State Organizer Starter Kit
Presents: State Organizer Starter Kit We at the Power Dialog are thrilled to have you on our team! Thank you for joining us and for your commitment to making student voices on energy policy heard by those in power. As a state organizer you have the opportunity to …
Constructive Engagement with Government Related to the Power Dialog
The Power Dialog is a powerful idea, not just because it sends a message that the issue of climate change is important, but also because it involves citizen-students engaging with government officials. The fact that we live in a democracy makes this possible and if it is done well, the …
The Moral Ark of the Universe: The Pope, Paris and Power
The Pope’s visit to the U.S. last week focused the nation on a moral challenge of biblical scale. Like Noah, we are called now to build an ark. But our ark will be the entire earth itself—a world rewired soon with clean energy. Global political leaders will propose half an …
Japan, African History, and the Art of Disaster
Written by Drew Thompson (Assistant Professor of Historical and Africana Studies) This past summer in June 2014, I traveled to Japan on the LIASE trip. As an African historian my research has involved particular geographical networks, Mozambique, Portugal (the former colonizing power of Mozambique), and South Africa (with its own history …
Power Dialog Organizing Call 11/16
Our first organizing call is at noon eastern time on Monday, November the 16th. The Power Dialog has organizing teams forming in about 25 states— and this will be the first chance to bring everyone together for an update and conversation about how the project is playing out on the …
Trip to Malaysia: My Experience with LIASE
Written by Kathryn Dixon (Bard College, Class of 2016) As a student at Bard my education has encompassed many subjects ranging from mathematics to Asian economic history, but I was only able to directly use my knowledge and expertise because of LIASE and their gracious grant. With this grant I …
Winds of Change
A chunk of the atmosphere, fresh off the Atlantic Ocean, hit the south side of Long Island and squeezed itself into the Upper New York Bay. After careening around curve of Bay Ridge Brooklyn it whipped passed the Statue of Liberty and made its way uptown by way of the …
Trip to Japan: Issues in the Island of Teshima
Written by Hayden Zahn Something that has stuck with me since returning home is the way in which three of the places we visited have dealt with disaster. While Onagawa and Ishinomaki are linked by the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the coast of the Tōhoku region, their responses …
Trip to Japan: Nature, Human and Extinction
Written by Alex Benson I approached the Luce field experience in Japan in the summer of 2015 with questions about culture and conservation, questions informed by my background as a scholar and teacher of American literature. More specifically I’d been puzzling through two strange claims advanced by Ishmael, the …