A quick review of the week in green: shark flop, bloggers who hate climate science, strippers for climate change...and more

This week in review. So much happened!

Well for starters, the largest climate event in history happened. Plenty of discussion ensued. It felt like it unified people around the planet around a common goal, and created plenty of healthy discussion about the state of the environment and activism.

Given that 350 was designed to make sure that the Cop 15 negotiators knew that their countries were behind them as they prepare for negotiating an ambitious global agreement..now I'll stop here: it there was language in there that didn't make sense, you are not alone. Much of Copenhagen, the process, and the issues at stake are minimally understood, hence we bring you 360 degrees of Copenhagen. AKA as Copenhagen in plain English. This week, Joshua Weise, affectionately referred to as a climate stalker (by Karl Burkart of Green dig.net), gives us a brief update of what happened at the recent Bangkok climate talks, and whats to come in Barcelona this coming week (the last round of talks before Copenhagen).





Twitter was a flurry this week (oh~ that's not news) but there were plenty of hashtags to watch if you wanted to watch bloggers report out from the Senate hearings. @BeThatChange took on the twittermission to bring @Barackobama 2 copenhagen  via the #hope2cope hashtags. You can also follow #cop15 for all things Copenhagen on twitter.


A very fun call out was placed on our site by award winning photographer Ian Shive: he has said that he will review anyone's photos and provide feedback about how to make them into work that you can use to preserve the land you love so much. Deadline in November 3rd.


Two reports of interest came out this week: American's are getting better at conserving water and apparently bloggers are haters...or at least, hate on the climate science according to Pew's latest report.

David de Rothschild and his co-skipper Jo Royale came by our office to talk about the adventure they are planning to take across the Pacific on their boat made of plastic. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard while talking about depressing facts about the state of the ocean (David nick named me Debbie Downer between a long string of off colored pirate jokes and explanations of how men are getting limp fin sydrome after eating shark) and yes of course, we discussed the state of plastics, garbage, the ocean, vertical gardening on the ship, and how to undress a rabit. Stay tuned for the interview. (Oh! And they answered everyone's questions, so thanks for asking!)

Lots of discussion about how to present the message of climate change to the people. So step right up and pick your viral messaging! Sexy images of young supermodels undressing:


or heart wrenching music and small children getting beat up by policemen (anyone else wonder if the children in this video will be permanently damaged?) A nickel goes to the first person who guess which video has 240K views and which one has 5K views.



Janforgore wrote a beautiful guest blog post on biodynamics. And life would not be complete if we didn't leave you with a few puns inspired by the news that cow farms are converting manure into electricity (and bless every single one of you who wrote in comments that included puns and jokes. You made my Friday!)

Next week~ Hawaii! (Someone had to take one for the team). I'm very honored to be asked to lead a pannel at the Re:Think Hawaii conference on sustainability and report back on the sustainability efforts of Hawaii. More on that....soon. Have a great weekend, and take care.