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Posts Tagged ‘climate justice’Copenhagen’s Offshore Wind Industry Shows Global PotentialFriday, December 18th, 2009Originally Published by the Detroit Free Press
UN Bans NGOs from Climate Conference: Part #1Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Originally Published by The Detroit Free Press  Marina Ahmad of the Pakistan Youth Climate Network and Aniruddha Sharma of International Youth Climate Movement wait outside the UN climate summit, despite Danish police statements that NGOs will not be admitted for the remainder of the day. McKibben Urges Obama to Ramp up U.S. Climate PromisesWednesday, December 16th, 2009Originally Published by the Detroit Free Press
Bomb Threat Closes Down Copenhagen Train StationTuesday, December 15th, 2009“There is no 1A bus running from here,” the Danish metro transit security man told me on the corner of Kongens Nytorv (King’s Center Square), where I generally get off the subway and hop onto a bus. “You have to get back on the subway, go one stop, get off at the Norreport station. Then go outside, get on a 15 bus.” |
COPENHAGEN – When it comes to wind power, Americans have all kinds of excuses not to use it. “It’s too expensive” or “Not in my backyard” (NIMBY: referencing that they don’t want a tall, skinny, white turbine obstructing their beautiful view of the ocean or the mountains.) Let me begin by saying this is all a sham, in my opinion. 
COPENHAGEN — While hundreds of thousands of people were out marching against climate change this past weekend, world leaders inside the Bella Center slyly removed the most important number in the world from