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.

Last night the University of Charleston hosted a debate about mountaintop coal removal between Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship. Massey Energy the major player in mountaintop removal – including at Coal River Mountain – where Climate Ground Zero treesitters just halted the blasting.
RAN folks were there, you can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]