CFACT Eco-Summit 2017: The future belongs to the “skeptics”

Student leaders from across the country just finished attending CFACT’s “eco-summit” leadership conference in Baltimore, Maryland, and are now ready to return to their campuses fully equipped to challenge radical Greens and climate alarmists.

By |2017-08-06T08:11:57-04:00August 7th, 2017|Comments Off on CFACT Eco-Summit 2017: The future belongs to the “skeptics”

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 [...]

By |2012-10-23T09:30:17-04:00March 10th, 2012|Comments Off on Monckton’s Schenectady showdown

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 [...]

By |2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00December 27th, 2011|Comments Off on Deep Green Resistance: Occupy (and more) till civilization falls

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" [...]

By |2012-09-18T21:25:38-04:00February 11th, 2011|Comments Off on CBS News covers CFACT’s human hamster wheel at CPAC

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 [...]

By |2021-06-28T11:23:40-04:00July 9th, 2010|Comments Off on CFACT team revisits Valle Verde, Mexico
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