Experience how students, activists, and citizens are using transmedia storytelling to educate, mobilize, and organize for "global cooling."
Focus The Nation (www.focusthenation.org) is a educational initiative on global warming solutions for America occurring at more than 1,500 campuses, faith and civic organizations and in all 50 states on Jan. 31, 2008. As the largest teach-in in U.S. history, Focus The Nation's goal is to prepare millions of students to become leaders in "the largest civilizational challenge any generation has faced." Its website provides participants with videos, print media, posters and graphics, media design competitions, teach-in models and materials, and political participation guides. Experience how students across the country have taken up the Focus the Nation "story," translated it into their own DIY media productions, and transmitted it on in diverse forms and genres through YouTube: