Compassionate Climate Action started as a 200-day countdown to the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009. It has since morphed into a weekly forum of radical ideas for compassionate action to mitigate the climate change emergency and safeguard the future.
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- And With That, Lima, We're Throughon Dec 14, 2014 in children Copenhagen climate talks food security gardening Lima COP 20 Paris COP 21 progenycide Rise UpWhat'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 Financeon Dec 7, 2014 in Canadian Youth Delegation Lima COP 20 Paris COP 21 REDD Switzerland zero-carbon economyLima, 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 WorldWell, 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 COP20on Nov 23, 2014 in Lima COP 20 womenIt 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 Changeon Nov 16, 2014 in Barack Obama China renewable energy Stephen Harper Tony Abbott Xi Jinping zero carbonSeveral 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 JusticeI 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 energyThis 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 Sadnesseson Oct 26, 2014 in CAN International children climate summit compassionate climate action trauma United Nations xkcdHAPPINESSI 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 MisrepresentedExactly, 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 KoyczanI 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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