Exhaustion. Excitement. Disappointment. Hope. Confusion. Contentment. All emotions I felt on my last day in Copenhagen.
I’m home now, and what an adventure this has been. Despite the problems with the final agreement (which I’ll talk about in a minute,) I’m totally glad I went and proud to have taken part in this historic event.
My last [...]

Hey everyone!  It’s a pleasure to start writing to all of you.  I was a youth delegate at the COP 15 United Nations Climate Conference this December.  It was quite the experience, and I’m more than happy to share some of those moments with you.  As a Canadian, it was truly interesting to see how [...]

There was a collective cringe in the room last night as activists and journalists listened to Obama’s closing press conference. There was no video, only audio, so you had to do something with your eyes. You could pretend to take notes on your laptop, but there was nothing to note. The speech was empty. As [...]

I grew up having this recurring dream. I guess it was a nightmare, really. It was one of those end-of-the-world scenarios where we knew the earth was collapsing in the next few days and I couldn’t get home to my family in Hawai’i because the planes weren’t running anymore and I was stuck over here [...]

It’s hard to believe that in seventeen days, I’ll be on the other side of the world experiencing a very different kind of “winter”. I’ve been fascinated with Borneo ever since grade 8, when I read Sam Lightener’s All Elevations Unknown, a memoir about a climbing expedition on the island. But I never expected that [...]