Posts Tagged ‘youth’

Live from the centre of the Earth

I’m pretty sure we’re all watching the Copenhagen summit as closely as we can, so in the hope that this is useful to y’all, here’s a rundown of some official and unofficial live TV feeds from the proceedings. World Wildlife Federation: Live broadcast every weekday at 7pm CET. Oxfam: Daily videos. OneClimate.net: 24-hour streaming feed. [...]

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350 in Montreal

Some days, in the environmental movement, you feel like you’re some sort of small squishy creature making brave noises just before the great corporate-political-industrial juggernaut squashes you. Some days, you feel very alone. Saturday was not one of those days. As everyone probably knows, it was the International Day of Climate Action, where people all [...]

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Countdown to 350

Eight days to go till the International Day of Action on Climate Change. There are about ten events scheduled in Montreal; I’m planning to join the Concordia bike ride. Yeah, it’s a pretty ordinary kind of demonstration, but I’m okay with that; there are plenty of wacky events going on all the time too, and [...]

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Think of the children!

Or the youths, anyway, because today’s post is about the youth climate movement(s). What the children are doing, as far as I can figure from the Eco-Fair I attended a few weekends ago, is building trash castles out of paper towel tubes and excessive glitter. Remember trash castles? Did everybody else have to do those [...]

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