EUGENE, Oregon (KCBS) -- Young people, including those from the Bay Area, are in Oregon this weekend for a national campaign to promote clean energy at a grassroots level.
Katherine Lockwood, a sophmore at UC Berkeley, calls the environment the issue of her generation.
There are a lot of young students out there who are really passionate about the issue," she said.
Lockwood is at the University of Oregon this weekend with 500 students from 14 states for Power Shift West one of the regional conferences going on around the U.S. talking about organizing local groups to take on the big issues of sustainable living.
KCBS' Janice Wright reports
Jeremey Blanchard, a senior at the University of Oregon, is one of the conference organizers.
"I was a computer science major two years ago and I switched to environmental studies two years ago when I realized how important this stuff was," he said.
The conference will wind up with a march through Eugene in support of climate legislation.
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