This past weekend over 10,000 young people stormed Washington DC on behalf of an organized act of civil disobedience to promote clean energy practices. Led by Billy Pharish, a former Yale student who felt so compelled to do something about global warming that he dropped out of school, these students engaged in a weekend of seminars, trainings and a march to the White House.

All of their activities were part of a larger “climate movement”- you can read more about it here, here and here.

In addition to raising awareness, these protesters were also specifically taking on a coal run power plant located near the capital. The thinking goes; if Congress can’t clean up it’s own act, or address the lack of energy efficiency in it’s own neighborhood, then how seriously can we take them?

Here’s a video from one of the protests this weekend: