Items by Nick Magel

• Japanese Youth Go Green, Call For Japan To “Save Copenhagen”

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  UPDATE — New video from our meeting with the Japanese delegation. Japan could shift the course of the climate talks with a strong finance proposal. It’s a huge part of Copenhagen, the financing of the $200 billion per year fund for climate change adaptation and mitigation. One of the countries that [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Nick Magel

• “Listen to the Islands”

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 2
  Moments ago in Copenhagen’s COP15 meetings, 100’s of people lined the entry way to the main plenary to stand with Tuvalu and all small island nations or AOSIS. Earlier today, Tuvalu showed true leadership at COP15, showing ambition by attempting to initiate an open conversation on how the world can [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:13am EST
  by Nick Magel

• From Copenhagen to Brussels: EU LEAD!

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 2
  In the last three hours, over 100 people at the Bella Center in Copenhagen and more than 3,600 around Europe joined Avaaz to phone calls to European leaders urging them to be a deal maker. Angela Merkel of Germany, Lars Lokke Rasmussen of Denmark, and Gordon Brown of the UK [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:20am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law 12 days before UN Climate Negotiations.

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 10
  Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed “anti-riot law”, less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, strips people of civil liberties, [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:33am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Obama coming to the UN climate party early and empty

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 3
  It’s official Obama is coming to Copenhagen. He will attend the UN Climate negotiations happening 2 weeks from now. However, this announcement reads like Obama coming to a pot-luck party early before anyone else is there, and forgetting to bringing a dish. His timing is well… not exceptional, and even [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by Nick Magel

• Delay Kills.

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Today over 40 environmental ministers from countries around the world, including the biggest emitters US and China, wrapped up their final hours of talks before the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen on Dec 7th. The meetings conclude two days after the Obama administration seemed to suggest strong support for [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  by Nick Magel

• Looking for Climate Leaders? None here…yet

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 1
  On the final day of the UNFCCC negotiations in Barcelona, the last meetings before the world turns it’s eyes to Copenhagen, the Avaaz Action Factory formed a coalition with the aliens from Planet B (you read that right). The aliens were on a dire mission to find climate leaders who [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:14am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Saudi Arabia, Don’t Trade Climate for Oil.

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  This morning a group of youth climate activists attending the UNFCCC negotiations in Barcelona stood in solitary with actions in over 18 developing countries including Bangladesh, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mexico, India, Nepal, and Nigeria to name just a few. Community groups from these regions converged on local Saudi Arabian [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:05am EST
  by Nick Magel

• European Action Factory Kicks Off In Barcelona

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Last week 12 international climate activists converged on Barcelona to kick off two months of climate actions leading up to the unprecedented climate change agreement slated to be achieved in Copenhagen mid-December. The “Action Factory” is comprised of young climate activists from Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Senegal, United States, and [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:04am EST
  by Nick Magel

• Chevron Gets No Love From Andy Rooney

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 2
  Chevron’s $27 billion Ecuador problem forces Andy Rooney to drop the H-bomb… something he really, really, hates to do. I love Andy Rooney and he gets mad at a lot of things (like iphones or Ali G). But now he turns his anger at sleazy lawyers, sleazy journalists, and one [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: August 20, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
  by Nick Magel

• “The Green Collar Economy”

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 6
  On the heels of the ridiculously successful Green Jobs Now day of action comes the second of a one two punch amplifying Green Jobs to a whole new level. Van Jones new book “The Green Collar Economy” is out Oct 7th. If this book can debut on best sellers lists, it [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: October 06, 2008, 1:34pm EDT
  by Nick Magel

• Bush And Johnson Sitting In A Tree

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 2
  …screwing over you and me! Today the EPA Deputy Director announced today that he will solidify his status as lapdog of the Bush/Cheney administration by taking no concrete action against CO2 emissions, as mandated in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, and passing the buck to the next administration. Johnson (I can’t [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: July 11, 2008, 3:55pm EDT
  by Nick Magel

• Tough week for Chevron. No buisness�peroid!

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Number of comments: 2
  Chevron is having a really tough week of reality. Following Saturday�s blockade at their Richmond CA Refinery, activists rallied outside Chevron�s offices in San Francisco yesterday. During the rally a group of activists blockaded the Chevron offices further highlighing Chevron’s war, and climate crimes, by disrupting business as usual. At [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: March 20, 2008, 6:38pm EDT
  by Nick Magel

• Come to the Transporation Getaway Jan 11-13 Detroit MI!

  —It's Getting Hot In Here

  Take Action against Auto Makers in Detroit this Weekend! We refuse to Drive the Cars that are Driving Global Warming. Heard about the Transportation Challenge? It’s a campaign of Energy Action partners to cut greenhouse gas emissions from one of the largest pollution sources - dirty gas guzzling vehicles. Young people [...]
  Share | Rate | Archive

  Posted: January 07, 2008, 6:39pm EST
  by Nick Magel