After attending COP 15 I’ve become more and more angry at my government and even more so at the lack of environmental action being taken on behalf of Prime Minister Harper here in Canada.
With his recent decision to prorogue parliament, he has left all responsibility and accountability to represent Canadians in the House.  I have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]