Wow, that was an amazing week. Just the fact that it’s taken me till day 7 to sit down and write something should tell you something about how much we’re doing here in Iceland. It’s about 11pm here, it’s still completely light out (the sun goes down for about 3 hours per day, but it’s [...]

One of the reasons the revolution we need isn’t happening is that we aren’t suffering YET. But if we wait till we suffer enough to make the inconvenient changes that need to be made, it will be too late. Our only hope is to awaken empathy…because people and animals and whole bio-systems are already suffering. Let empathy be our wake up call to action.

Youth have power to insist that their parents boycott BP until they clean up the disaster they caused. They made $5billion this quarter…DURING the oil spill (135% more than last year.) All of that extra profit needs to go to disaster response and we can help them make that decision.

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 [...]

It finally happened. I didn’t get into the Bella Center at all today. I knew it was just a matter of time. But something happened today at the conference center, and I’m not exactly sure what.
I woke up this morning, and we walked through the snow to the metro center, but it said that the [...]