Youth activists in Vermont take on climate change

September 2, 2007

Earlier this year, Ivan Jacobs was washing dishes at Burlington's Blue Star Café and enjoying the regular buzz of free coffee. And then one day he noticed the yellow signs posted on telephone poles around the neighborhood.

"They said, 'Jobs for the environment,'" Jacobs recalled. "And I said to myself, 'Well, I like the environment.'"

And so the 20-year-old took one of those jobs. He began work as a youth canvasser in May for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, a Montpelier-based advocacy organization, and spent his spring and summer going door-to-door in towns around the state to talk with residents about the hot political issue of 2007: Global warming.

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