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 [...]

As I write this the situation is bleak in Copenhagen. The talks are confused and chaotic, and there is little clear direction being shown. However, there is still time. Kyoto was negotiated in the last twelve hours in the dead of the night. Bali was only successful after the US made a last minute concession [...]

As the climate negotiations in Copenhagen are on the verge of collapse, yesterday hundreds of people staged a walk out of the Bella Center to join the thousands who were denied entry in the effort to transform the closed-door negotiations into a People’s Assembly. Check out Democracy Now’s coverage featuring our own Joshua Kahn Russell.

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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 [...]

The difficulty I have had in these negotiations is that Governments themselves lose this perspective. They become lost in all the numbers and the data. They also become lost in the world of politics. As different countries try to “win” the political game, they forget why we are all here.