Hello all!
Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted on the good ol’ blog, I was isolated in Southern Virginia where there was internet censorship and I wasn’t able to access any blogs or discussion forums of any sort. No worries, however, that just means that this blog post will be super spectacular as it contains two weeks worth of climate battling news!
Primarily, the whole world has been abuzz with news of Al Gore’s magnificent speech given in DC on the future of American efforts to combat climate change and his ambitious goals of having the United States’ electricity grid be 100% FOSSIL FUEL FREE in ten years. There is already so much debate about this speech in the blogosphere, so if you want to hear about it you should check out Grist.org, Envirowonk.com, the NY Times’ DotEarth blog, or any other of the plethora of people who write about this sort of stuff on the internet. It’s truly interesting stuff.
I myself was not able to go to see Al Gore give his speech because I was at summer camp! Thankfully, my two weeks as a counselor at Riverview Camp in Virginia were not devoid of climate activism and I managed to film a really fun Green FInger video with some of my campers! Check it out (I hope it works, I’ve been having major YouTube issues…)
Also, some of my campers made postcards for the 350.org Postcards Project, so hopefully they will be up on 350.org sooner or later for you guys to see the hard work of some of the youngest climateers out there!
Another highlight of the past two weeks has been 1Sky’s decision to post a little piece I wrote about my Voyage for the Future trip and the implications strong American climate policy would have on the Arctic and international climate treaty discussions. If you want to read what I wrote, just click here! I hope to do more work with 1Sky in the next few days, weeks, months, years, etc. They are such a great group of people and have managed to blaze a name for themselves really rapidly since their launch in November.
Our work towards creating a more cohesive Green Finger Project is still at the drawing board and I am now realizing how hard it is to coordinate so many people across so many different continents, etc. I am sure, though, that we will have our own website soon which will be relatively easy to use and will enable people to see that their actions can make a difference in the world. Already, we’ve been getting some big names to make vids…albeit mostly from Norway. Here’s a video made by Maria, Karl Oskar, and WWF Norway (again, I hope this works for you…)
Alright, well, I’ll be in touch later when I figure out more of how I’m going to be spending my August fighting climate change! Thanks!
