Students love gourmet “non-GMO organic” food (from McDonald’s)
Think you could tell the difference between organic, non-GMO food and McDonald’s? These students sure couldn’t! WATCH NOW
CFACT reverses restrictive speech code at Auburn University!
A victory for academic freedom and the right to free speech.
Watch students wake up about warming
Watch the double take students do when confronted with the straight facts that there has been no dramatic global warming as they've been led to believe.
CFACT testifies against EPA’s job-killing ozone rule
At EPA overregulation is the name of the game. The latest is EPA's proposal to drastically tighten its standard for atmospheric ozone.
Collegians Stand up for Energy, Security and a Real Economic Future
CFACT's Collegians have been busy in the last month standing up for common sense energy projects and fighting against radical greens.
Monckton’s Schenectady showdown
By Justin Pulliam THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the university’s environmentalists into a turmoil. The campus environmentalists set up a Facebook page announcing a counter-meeting of their own immediately following Monckton’s lecture. There is no debate about global warming, they announced. There is a consensus. The science is settled. Their meeting would be addressed by professors and PhDs, the “true” scientists, no less. Sparks, it seemed, were gonna fly. Traveling with Lord Monckton on the East Coast leg of his current whistle-stop tour of [...]
Deep Green Resistance: Occupy (and more) till civilization falls
By Duggan Flanakin (reviewer)The central theme of Deep Green Resistance, written by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen (author of Endgame), is simple. To save the planet, its wildlife and some of its people, the enlightened few must rise up in resistance – not to reform, but rather to totally tear down the corporate capitalist economic system, and even civilization itself as we know it. Jensen presents his thesis in the book's preface. "The dominant culture – civilization – is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to [...]
CBS News covers CFACT’s human hamster wheel at CPAC
CFACT's campus arm, Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow, is in D.C. this week for CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), and they are already drawing attention with a human-sized hamster wheel! CBS News covered the story, demonstrating that CFACT's Collegians have a knack for creative activism that communicates our message of free-market environmentalism to a large audience. (Click here for the press release) This time, Collegians has targeted renewable energy. Radical environmentalists and the Obama administration want America to stop using the reliable clean coal power that supplies the country with affordable electricity. Instead, they call for a switch to so-called "renewable" [...]
CFACT team revisits Valle Verde, Mexico
CFACT Director of Policy Research Duggan Flanakin recently lead a five-person team on a journey through Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The first stop along the way was the City of Joy Foundation (Fundacion Ciudad de la Alegria) and the nearby impoverished village of Valle Verde, which lies on the outskirts of wealthy Cancun. In both locations the team met up with old friends and made new ones as they reported on the benefits of the laptop computers and solar panels that previous CFACT teams had brought to the area. CFACT photographer Sarah Cowles and volunteer Jason Lively visit with a technician [...]
CFACT update from the Gulf coast
By Jillian LeMelleOn Flag Day (June 14), CFACT Director of Policy Research Duggan Flanakin led a team of three staffers and three Collegian students from the University of Louisiana - Lafayette on a boat tour departing from LaFitte, Louisiana, and out to Queen Bess Island, the nesting home of Louisiana's state bird, the brown pelican. The drive from Lafayette to LaFitte took approximately four hours. When we finallyarrived, we were greeted by beautiful scenery. The land we stood on formed the shape of ahorseshoe; the boat in which we were going was docked in the curve of the shoe. The left [...]
CFACT, Freedom Works protest GE Chair at Boston College
Boston, MA – On Monday morning, as Boston College students assembled to participate in the commencement ceremony in Alumni Stadium, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) offered them some advice: Don’t listen to whatever General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt tells you, it is better to be an inventor or innovator than a rent-seeker. “Jeff Immelt is the worst sort of example to hold up to the graduating seniors: someone who pursues policies that destroy jobs, seeks government subsidies for ideas that fail in the marketplace, and supports liberal politicians who seek to expand government control of every aspect of society,” [...]
Collegians protest Gore honorary degree in Knoxville
Knoxville, TN- Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) hosted a protest of the award of an honorary degree to Al Gore at the University of Tennessee’s commencement ceremonies on May 14. “Al Gore is setting a new standard for underserved honors,” said Dillon MacDonald who is a CFACT-TN leader. “First he got a Nobel prize although he didn't bring peace, now he's getting an honorary degree for scaring Americans with flawed science. He flies in private jets, just bought another mansion, yet tells working people their houses are too large, their showers too warm, their cars too fast and our economy [...]
CFACT continues their mission in Cancun
CFACT recently returned from Quintano Roo, Mexico. This time, CFACT at the University of Texas-Austin went down with 7 laptops and solar panels, prepared to help better lives and give people a future. Students learned why the way CFACT does 3rd world development is a far more effective way of creating change and helping people than the way the left does.
Alarmists Reject Information
CFACT members challenged the demonstrators, asking why they weren't going in to watch the movie. 'Are you aware of the facts in the movie?' Ruffy asked Berthiaume. Berthiaume told him he'd seen the trailer, but was not interested in watching the film at this time."
Don’t fry our economy!
Today hundreds gathered in at the State Capitol in Madison, Wi to oppose Al Gore and his alarmist Climate Change policies. Despite the cold, an enthusiastic crowd gathered to send Al Gore a clear message: “Don’t Fry Our Economy!” “It was an amazing turnout, even though rain and cold usually keeps people away. We were out to tell Al Gore and his friends that Cap and Trade will kill our economy, take jobs away, and tax American families out of their homes,” said UW CFACT president Alex Hansen. Senator Glenn Grothman and Representative Jim Ott both spoke on the truth about [...]