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Richard Graves - who has written 5 posts on Environmental Graffiti.
Besides being a proud Environmental Graffiti contributor, Richard Graves is the blogmaster for It's Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and the communications coordinator for the US Youth Delegation to the International Climate Negotiations in Bali. He helps over a hundred youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. Richard graduated from Macalester College after winning campaigns for green building, green roofing, renewable energy investment, and energy conservation. When he isn't organizing against global warming, he likes to make Italian, Mexican, and Japanese food, read books, and to sculpt.
The Bali is in the Home Court
So I am sitting here in the convention hall in Nusa Dua where international diplomats are hashing out the Bali roadmap for an International agreement on tackling global warming, with my heart in my stomach. I have seen a lot of terrible things by our government over the [...]
Continue reading...The Real Story at Bali: The Youth are Back and Badder than Ever
Thursday, December 6, 2007
In 2005, at the UN’s Montreal Climate Negotiations a ragtag but sizable delegation showed up at the conference desperate to make sure the world hear their call for climate action. The event proved to be a formative time for many in the youth climate movement and many date [...]
Continue reading...Will The United States Be a Climate Leader at Bali?
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Read more about the youth climate movement at It’s Getting Hot in Here – dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement or an expanded essay at Celsias. The United States has been the largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest
Continue reading...Your Days Are Numbered, Oldies
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I have spent the last two days talking to and listening to Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, , of Death of Environmentalism fame/infamy, and the question they always are asked is: “What is your positive vision for the future?” Well, I will be doing a full review [...]
Continue reading...Wake Up, Generation Clueless!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
In the USA, there seems to be a strange obsession with New York Times columnists from their lofty perch to denigrate the youth climate movement as quiet, timid, or dare I say it…apathetic. I guess as young people we just don’t quite get the magnitude of the [...]
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
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