<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/153d076b-e1a3-46ac-bd52-9ff788239de5/F7439033-E8CF-46B2-BA53-DF6B933D53FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/07/17/robert-redford-brings-green-poetry-slam-to-sundance/" href="http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/07/17/robert-redford-brings-green-poetry-slam-to-sundance/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ecorazzi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/07/17/robert-redford-brings-green-poetry-slam-to-sundance/"><P><A rel="lightbox" href="http://www.ecorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/robert_poetry.jpg"><IMG height="287" width="215" alt="" src="http://www.ecorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/robert_poetry.jpg" title="robert_poetry" class="alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-7511" /></A>The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sundance.org">Sundance Institute</A> in partnership with <A target="_blank" href="http://www.youthspeaks.org">Youth Speaks</A>, is reaching out to the younger generation by inviting slam poets to Sundance to perform global warming poetry.  <STRONG>Robert Redford </STRONG>has a long history of commitment to the environment, and he feels in this year of pending change it is a critical time for the youth to get involved.   Art is the medium he’d like to see them express their priorities for the environment, and a poetry slam with a theme of global warming is just the ticket.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/07/17/robert-redford-brings-green-poetry-slam-to-sundance/">Many of the participants are first time voters, and the hope is that through expressing their ideas about this mammoth concept of a changing climate, poets and audience members will want to take a more active role in shaping their future</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/07/17/robert-redford-brings-green-poetry-slam-to-sundance/">Isn’t it exciting when youth are really passionate about something, especially when it’s the environment?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F7439033-E8CF-46B2-BA53-DF6B933D53FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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