U.S. Earns 1st “Fossil of the Day” at Bonn UN Climate Negotiations

<cross-posted on SustainUS’s Agents of Change blog and It’s Getting Hot in Here>
The United States earned the 1st Fossil of the Day Award here at the United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn. Nearly a week had passed where no country had acted badly enough in the negotiations to deserve a shameful Fossil, until the [...]

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Due by June 4 – Application to UN climate negotiations in Cancun, December 2010

Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10.
Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or [...]

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Citizen of the Week Special Contest

The Climate Community Citizen of the Week Awards programĀ is featuring a special contest!
Based on the success of December’s Citizen of the Week contest with the Anderson School of Management, this week we’ll travel to the University of Chicago, where students in the joint undergraduate/graduate course in Environmental Economics (page 11) will have the opportunity to [...]

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A Dark Night

Hello Climate Community!
When you heard last week that I would be writing you from Copenhagen, you probably expected to get a report from inside the negotiating halls as history was made.
Instead, I’ve written from the place above – deep within a bunker that environment, development, faith, and human rights groups, along with the international youth [...]

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