Latest Blog Posts for Compassionate Climate Action

• And With That, Lima, We're Through
  on Dec 14, 2014 in children Copenhagen climate talks food security gardening Lima COP 20 Paris COP 21 progenycide Rise Up
  What's the word for what happened in Lima at the COP20 climate change conference over the last two weeks? Besides ZERO, I mean. Nothing, nada, nichts. Nothing was accomplished. Absolutely sweet $#@! all. But what's the word to describe hundreds of co...
• The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Frightening of Climate Change Finance
  on Dec 7, 2014 in Canadian Youth Delegation Lima COP 20 Paris COP 21 REDD Switzerland zero-carbon economy
  Lima, yada yada. As suspected, it's not looking like anything transformative is going to come out of the COP20 taking place in Peru this past week and next. [NEWS FLASH! DECLINING OUR EMISSIONS BY 2015 AND ACHIEVING ZERO CARBON BY MID-CENTURY ARE BOT...
• One Day to Go Till the Lima Climate Conference - We Know How to Save the World
  on Nov 30, 2014 in CAN International IPCC Lima Lima COP 20 zero carbon
  Well, there's only a day left before the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru (COP20) begins.  I'm not a betting woman. I prefer to work a little magic. So let's, instead of taking wagers, conjure up the best possible outcome. Let's m...
• One Week Until Lima ... Copenhagen Redux - A Message to All the Women Attending COP20
  on Nov 23, 2014 in Lima COP 20 women
  It was five years ago that I sent out this heartfelt request to all the women who were going to attend the Copenhagen climate talks. Today, I send it again, to all the women, mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, nieces and godmothers who are attending...
• A Big Step in the Right Direction: China and the US Agree to Do the Right Thing on Climate Change
  on Nov 16, 2014 in Barack Obama China renewable energy Stephen Harper Tony Abbott Xi Jinping zero carbon
  Several years before I started hearing about climate change (and way before I morphed into a climate change activist), I made a childhood dream come true by travelling around the world. I took a leave of absence and my plan was to be gone for a year,...
• The Importance of Creativity -- and Clarity -- in the Fight for Climate Justice
  on Nov 9, 2014 in A Whack on the Side of the Head creativity Roger von Oech
  I just finished reading Roger von Oech's A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. (Yes, I have a life that is totally undirected at climate change at times. I read this book to help my students understand what innovation is, and...
• Putting My Money Where My Roof Is ...
  on Nov 2, 2014 in Shore Energy Solutions solar energy
  This blog is often a place of lament and, dare I admit it, whining about the lack of global action on the climate crisis. Today's post is going to be more positive -- and practical. Yesterday I attended a workshop on solar power and solar techno...
• Climate Change Happinesses and Sadnesses
  on Oct 26, 2014 in CAN International children climate summit compassionate climate action trauma United Nations xkcd
  HAPPINESSI love xkcd's comics. They're pretty off the wall and fun (and sometimes delightfully inappropriate). And he's so generous that he allows non-profit folks to use them for free! The comic above is dedicated to my husband, who's always been so...
• How Climate Science Gets Tossed Around and Misrepresented
  on Oct 19, 2014 in Arctic summer sea ice climate models Climate Parents greed xkcd
  Exactly, xkcd! Thank you.A couple of things this week helped me finally grasp that the field of climate change science is like any other human endeavour -- rife with human foibles, especially greed and ego.First up, from Climate Parents, a little tal...
• Throwing in the Towel on Climate Change? Not Yet, Thanks to Shane Koyczan
  on Oct 12, 2014 in climate change emergency depression Shane Koyczan video
  I have been sick for two weeks, laid low by a tenacious flu bug that's had me on a roller coaster of sore throats, coughing fits, horrifying headaches, plugged up ears (and still the autumns rains were thunderous!), dizziness, clumsiness and fatigue...

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