Conscious Climate Conscience

The Danes took our Princess so give us our protestor back!

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:05:00 +1100

Rally to free the climate prisoners Today I participated in a post-Copenhagen rally to support an...

Post-enhagen

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:03:01 +1100

Copenhagen is over and this blog has only a few more stories in it at a stretch. This first one is...

This is the last video from the AYCC team (Mike Clay, Rohan...

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:00:08 +1100

This is the last video from the AYCC team (Mike Clay, Rohan Porteous and Sam Millar). They did a phenomenal job through the weeks in Copenhagen. I know for a fact that Rohan did not sleep for forty-eight hours before making this video and Mike and Sam were both sick. But good on them.

This is a very inspiring video and one that represents the real message of Copenhagen: A coming together of youth from around the world saying that we have to act now.

Cheers,

Juan represents youth at U.N. and speaks passionately for our...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:06:54 +1100

Juan represents youth at U.N. and speaks passionately for our future!

Here is a short video of the Vigil for Survival that I helped...

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:04:16 +1100

Here is a short video of the Vigil for Survival that I helped organise with 350 and Avaaz. Great work Deepa, Ben, Tash and the team!

Copenhagen Accord

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:37:29 +1100

Copenhagen Accord Late last night, there was a change in the UN negotiations. There was a proposal...

Climate Vigil: reflections on survival

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:44:43 +1100

Dear Reader, Today I write from a room with hundreds of climate activists working in a big hall, the...

This is an inspiring collection of global actions from 350.org...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:07:16 +1100

This is an inspiring collection of global actions from 350.org and Avaaz that just happened on Saturday. I find it hard to believe that I was standing right near Archbishop Tutu when he said these words. To be there was electrifying.

Now, to make the real deal happen. Latest news is that Hilary Clinton will be coming to Copenhagen. Also, Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel and Brown are having a e-conference at the moment. Pretty soon AYCC will be sending out an email calling on young people in Australia to sign a petition that we will give to Rudd when we meet him in twelve hours.

So you’ll hear from me again soon = )

Really good update from CAN. It summarises the global issues...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:46:40 +1100

Really good update from CAN. It summarises the global issues around todays negotions.

Copenhagen: Snow on the Black Diamond

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:58:49 +1100

Dearest reader, As I write to you, I sit in the Black Diamond library in Copenhagen which is being...

Climate conspiracist Lord Monckton gets pwned In case the news...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:46:26 +1100

Climate conspiracist Lord Monckton gets pwned

In case the news from COP15 is getting you down, or if you’ve switched off it entirely, here is something to cheer you up.

This is Mike and Rowan’s mash-up of the footage they got from our interaction with one of the world’s most famous climate conspiracists last week, Viscount Christopher Monckton. If you are wondering about what I am saying it is “this guy is batty”.

Humour aside, there have been some important developments over the past days. AYCC now have clear targets which are the Land-use accounting rules and also Carbon-capture and storage (CCS) rules. It has hit the media in a big way in the last twenty-four hours and you should expect it to get bigger after mad monkey abbott got in on the action recently. I will do a longer post about these issues soon.

Today, I am helping prepare a number of actions in solidarity with the youth of the Pacific “Voices of the Pacific” and also in solidarity with the nations of the U.N. who are aiming for a fair, ambitious and binding treaty.

Wish me goodluck!

Dear Reader, I was at this 350 event last night helping by...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:25:20 +1100

Dear Reader,

I was at this 350 event last night helping by keeping too many press from the speakers. It was wonderful to be in the front row with Mary Robinson, Bill McKibbon and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

I have never heard Tutu speak before, have you? He is very entertaining and extremely energising. They marched in Berlin and the wall fell. They marched in Capetown and Aparteid fell.

They marched in Copenhagen and we are going to get a real deal.

Cheers,

The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:47:36 +1100

The Psychology of Climate Change Denial: Finally, psychology is getting into the act. We need a...

What is the world saying about Australia at COP15?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:24:13 +1100

Dear Reader, As the sun comes up on day five in cloudy, cold Copenhagen i’d like to turn your...

Who are the lobbies behind COP15?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:53:00 +1100

Who are the lobbies behind COP15?: Global Climate Change Lobby are reporting COP15 looking directing...

Beautiful simple video introduction to COP15. N.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:56:14 +1100

Beautiful simple video introduction to COP15.

Strong statements from Youth representative at COP15. In clear...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:49:00 +1100

Strong statements from Youth representative at COP15. In clear response to Obama arriving in the next week, we must move beyond words.

“Yes we can, yes we must and yes we will”

Video from AYCC on Abbott going bananas. Congrats Rowan and Mike...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:35:00 +1100

Video from AYCC on Abbott going bananas. Congrats Rowan and Mike as well as Sam!

“The Mad Monkey has gone bananas”

Cheers,

This is the flashdance that AYCC organised. Great work Joel and...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:32:05 +1100

This is the flashdance that AYCC organised. Great work Joel and Tash!! They are amazing.

This is an action we did yesterday at COP15. I was not sure if...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:41:05 +1100

This is an action we did yesterday at COP15. I was not sure if it would be worth our time doing it, but we did get attention on the Reuters website, and also all over the world. It is extremely hard to track the media attention that we get.

For example, as I was walking away from the bed-in, I was interviewed twice for media in Brazil, one online and one broadsheet newspaper. Knowing whether they used it is hard to track for me. And even if they did, it does not effect our home climate political issues. In the end though it does raise the issue of climate around the world, which is the point of the action - we are all in bed together on climate issues.

Cheers,