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 [...]

Wow, I feel so inspired while writing this. The highlight of my day was a speech by Al Gore calling upon the world leaders to take real action for the youth of this and every generation.
He began and ended with a standing ovation from the crowd. And right after a joke about a farmer in [...]

And yet, even though this agreement could be great, no matter how fair, ambitious, and binding this treaty is, it alone won’t be what solves this crisis. It’s going to take an energy revolution, from the people. On the scale of the industrial revolution, which completely redefined life in the western world. This is what needs to happen now. And it needs to happen from the bottom up, beginning with the people. And the fact that so many people (over 100,000) are here shows that we are ready for this revolution.

RAN was absolutely thrilled to hear that two RYSE Council Members –Diana Lopez AND Alec Loorz- are amongst the dazzlingly talented and brilliant 2009 Brower Youth Award Recipients. But we weren’t surprised! These two incredible youth activists have been making powerful waves fighting global warming and planting the seeds of real change for all communities.