A youthquake of activism is hitting college campuses as students â?? armed with cellphones, lots of contacts and political savvy â?? tackle global warming.
“This is not a protest movement. It’s an engagement movement,” says Eban Goodstein, the economics professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., who founded the non-profit organization, also called Focus the Nation, in 2006 to spearhead climate activism.