Today was my third day in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark for the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. The conference center is just so overwhelming, in a good way. There is so much awesome going on at once, it’s hard to take it all in.
I started off the day pushing through a mob of hundreds of people [...]

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.

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition just posted this great video clip introducing some of the Global Youth Delegates to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Check  for our own Joshua Kahn Russell, doing his thing with mass facilitation and trainings in Copenhagen.
Find more young people creating a thunderstorm and raising their voices in Copenhagen – [...]

As our eyes turn toward the Climate Talks in Copenhagen this week, here’s a great little video about one of the main false solutions that will be discussed: Cap & Trade. We’ve all heard those words a lot, but do we know what they really mean? Whose idea is this, anyway?