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Oxfam Policy Director: Fair Climate Deal Threatened by Industry (Video Interview)
When I sat down to talk with him at the Fresh Air Center in downtown Copenhagen this afternoon, Phil Bloomer looked a bit like he'd been to hell and back. No wonder: the director of campaigns and policy at Oxfam has been working hard here to get
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Future Visions - Chronicles of Ecotopia Event in Copenhagen Tomorrow
Last week's guest poster Ella Saltmarshe asked if we are drowning in dystopias? Where are the positive visions of a sustainable future? Even Cop15 opened with a film of a child's nightmare of future
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What an Urgent Global Call for a Real Climate Deal Looks Like (Video)
As the clock ticks louder, the eyes of the world aren't the only things keeping world leaders honest at Copenhagen; demonstrations, vigils and actions around the world in recent days have emphasized just how important this is for millions.
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At Copenhagen, Young Americans Are Disappointed in Their Country But Still Hoping for Change
Q&A; with Jessy Tolkan, Energy Action Coalition Even if they aren't being let into Copenhagen's Bella Center for the final crucial days, non-governmental organizations have started a full court press for a fair and binding deal that would give
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It's Humanitarian Day at Copenhagen: How Will the Developed Countries Honor It?
But in the plenary room and in high
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Mayor Bloomberg Covets Denmark's Huge Offshore Wind Farm, Dreams of a New York Version (Video)
As hundreds of delegates and reporters faced a crush at Copenhagen's Bella Center, which was packed to capacity at the start of the final week of climate talks, New York's Mayor Mike Bloomberg took off in a helicopter to survey the world's largest
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Bicycle Culture 2.0 in Copenhagen: Look at This Amazing Bike-Friendly Urban Planning (Video)
37% of People Commute by Bike! Our friend Elizabeth Press went to Copenhagen for COP15, and while there she had the chance to shoot some video (with Mikeal from Copenhagenize) and I must say that the more I learn about Copenhagen's bike infrastructure,
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Rajendra Pachauri at Copenhagen: Attempts to Discredit Climate Science "Will Not Work" (Video Interview)
Nobel Laureate and IPCC chairman R.K. Pachauri pities the fools that doubt the scientific findings of his UN group. But the skeptics keep coming, especially after the "Climategate" affair. While the skepticism has remained marginal here in Copenhagen,
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5 Fab Bike Solutions Seen On The Streets At COP-15
The "hybrid" electric bike Copenhagen wheel concept (retrofit to your own bike's back wheel hub) shown at Hopenhagen's Future Cities exhibit. I went to Copenhagen because I could take a train, and I was really interested in what the mood would feel like
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The Week in Pictures: COP15 Climate Change Conference, 'ClimateGate Scandal, Coal Fire Still Burns (After 47 Years), and More (Slideshow)
From Matt's on the ground coverage during the first week of the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference from Copenhagen, to the advances in the 'ClimateGate' hacked e-mail scandal, a lot happened this week in green. A fire in Pennsylvania--that
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How History's Biggest Climate Change March Almost Got Lost in the Media Smog
If you weren't in Copenhagen yesterday, you might be excused for thinking the big climate march was all about violence and protest. That was the message blasted out in headlines across the internet, all variations on the same theme of destruction and
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Copenhagen's Gargantuan Carbon Footprint? It's Up in Smoke
OK, it's a lot of carbon. 41,000 tons of carbon equivalent is estimated to be Copenhagen's big footprint after the COP-15 two weeks of talks. See that small, insignificant seeming white dot carved into the big black moon?
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Twists and turns on the 'Hope-to-Despair Express'
COPENHAGEN—The Danish capital's famous Tivoli gardens boasts an equally celebrated roller coaster.
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Exploring the Culture of COP15
"If governments can't save us from climate change," Edward Morris asks at GOOD.is, "what can artists do?"
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Copenhagen's Skeptic Tank
The Bella Center, the venue hosting the Copenhagen climate negotiations, is overflowing with advocates seeking
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In a Frenzied Copenhagen, Crucial Climate Talks Begin
COPENHAGEN—There was no calm before the storm. At least not over the last few days, not in Copenhagen. The climate change
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As Copenhagen Kicks Off, a Good News Roundup
The fashionable narrative about climate politics in American media is deflationist: nobody cares about climate any more because of
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Help Create a Twitter Book for Copenhagen
We all can't go to Copenhagen this week, but there are so many ways to make our voice heard nonetheless. ThisPlace09 is an art and Twitter project that conveys personal thoughts about climate change to the delegates and the
