Bay area activists, journalists and scholars play role at Copenhagen Climate conference

Published on Sunday, December 13, 2009
Last updated on 01:06PM, Monday, December 14, 2009
Climte Justice Now at Copenhagen conference, Dec 12, by Kris Krug

Climte Justice Now at Copenhagen conference, Dec 12, by Kris Krug

Thousands of people from aroun the world are converging in Copenhagen at the climate conference this week. Not surprisingly, a bevy of East Bay folks are among them. As the world negotiates a policy for slowing climate change, we're all watching -- and the wonders of the web make it possible to follow along with locals who are there, twittering, blogging, and reporting back from the front line.

KQED did a roundup list of who's who in their world heading to Copenhagen, and Oakland Local did a list last week of local climate change activists and their close allies who will be there, but this is the twitter and blog list that can make it easier for you to follow along.

The Twitterati:

Green for All http://twitter.com/greenforall

Phaedra Ellis-Lampkin, CEO, Green for All, http://twitter.com/phaedrael

Local blogs worth checking for posts from the conference include:

  • Berkeley Blog, Energy for the Environment: Professor Dan Kammen--whose new idea is Property Assessed Clean Energy — PACE, a bond where the proceeds are lent to commercial and residential property owners to finance energy retrofits and who then repay their loans over 20 years-- is in Copenhagen and blogging.
  • The Movement Generation delegation is also posting--blogs, photos and videos--and should be in the middle of the social justice action, along with bloggers at Green for All.
  • Kari Fulton and Ellen Choy are posting less often to Check the Weather, but their new blog is totally worth a read.

And Mark Schapiro promises to post regularly at the Center for Investigative Reporting blog, as does Joel Makower at his Green Business blog.

There are no lack of photos and videos, either.

Sites to monitor for regular video uploads include The Uptake, which is covering Copenhagen on the ground, from the activist perspective, SmartMeme, which is doing the same,

Photo Galleries from The Real Deal, 350.org, and the #Copenhagen flickr stream are powerdul, as are demonstration photos from Vancouver photog Kris Krug, aka kk, whose recent photo set is embedded here.

 

 



Update: Follow local folks via a twitter list right here: http://twitter.com/#list/oaklandlocal/bay-area-cop15

About Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local. She is also a circuit rider for The Community Information Challenge, a program of The John S and James L Knight Foundation, and a consultant to non-profit and community organizations. Susan lives in North Oakland, near the Santa Fe school, with her partner Andy, her housemate, a rescue bully dog named Cazzie, and a yard full of ants. She is an aspiring gardener, a long-time blogger & entrepreneur, and a recovering journalist who's found home in Oakland.
Neal Gorenflo's picture
Neal Gorenflo commented at Thu, 17 Dec at 9:37am

 

Thanks OL for the handy guide! Here's an addition for you from Shareable Magazine. San Franciscan Chris Carlsson, a founder of Critical Mass bike rides, is Shareable's correspondent at COP15.  Here are his dispatches:

The Art of COP15: http://shareable.net/blog/the-art-of-cop15-0

Chris Carlsson and Tom Athanasiou Debate Cap and Trade at COP15

 

Neal Gorenflo's picture
Neal Gorenflo commented at Thu, 17 Dec at 9:39am

 

Thanks OL for the handy guide! Here's an addition for you from Shareable Magazine. San Franciscan Chris Carlsson, a founder of Critical Mass bike rides, is Shareable's correspondent at COP15.  Here are his dispatches:

The Art of COP15: http://shareable.net/blog/the-art-of-cop15-0

Chris Carlsson and Tom Athanasiou Debate Cap and Trade at COP15

 

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Jeremy Smith commented at Thu, 17 Dec at 3:25pm

Over at Shareable.net, Critical Mass founder and Nowtopia author Chris Carlsson has writing dispatches from the frontlines of Copenhagen--basically all informed by the idea that main value of Copenhagen, inside and outside of the Bella Center, is to brings peers together for collaboration against climate change. Here are three:

 

Copenhagen, Deluged: http://shareable.net/blog/copenhagen-deluged

 

The Art of COP15: http://shareable.net/blog/the-art-of-cop15-0

 

A Shared Climate, A Shared Solution? http://shareable.net/blog/a-shared-climate-a-sharing-solution

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Nancy Roberts commented at Thu, 17 Dec at 4:10pm

Thanks for this article! Fyi, Four Green MBA community members attended and sent back their impressions here:

http://www.greenmba.com/blog/