Posted on: Saturday, 11 October 2008, 03:00 CDT By Greg Esposito greg.esposito@roanoke.com 381-1675 Virginia Tech will be the center of the state youth environmental movement this weekend as host of Virginia Power Shift 2008. The gathering, which will include speakers, symposiums and 60 training sessions on environmental issues, was inspired by Power Shift 2007, a national youth conference on global warming held at the University of Maryland. About 6,000 students from across the country gathered at the event to discuss things such as alternative energy and cutting energy use and emissions of greenhouse gases. Angie De Soto, a Tech senior and a central planner for Virginia Power Shift, was at the Maryland event and said several students left it with plans to organize similar efforts in their states. She said Virginia Power...
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