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COY & COP15 Day 1: Lindsey's Top 5 Unforgettable Moments 1) Twenty hours: the amount of time I spent awaiting my arrival in Copenhagen. I arrived in Copenhagen on Saturday morning at 8:00 AM (1:00 AM, CST) thinking that I had managed to find the best arrival time ever! Get there at 8:00... meet up with Garett... get to COY on time... it would work out perfectly! To an extent it did, aside from the serious jetlag that I would look forward to in about eight hours. The Denmark locals were so great! Perhaps the map glued to my hand gave away my foreign identity. With their persistent and careful guidance, I arrived at the Clarion Hotel to connect with Garett. 2) We took a carbon-nuetral taxi to COY, where we signed in and reconnected with other climate rockstars. We took the walking Read More... |
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FTN at COP15 Day 1 and 2 |
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FTN delegation hits the ground running in Copenhagen! This past weekend, Garett and Lindsey helped facilitate trainings and workshops at the Conference of the Youth while networking and strategizing with international climate activists. This week the 09 Focus Roots Fellows will join them, and together they will: Read More... |
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In between Clean Energy Forums- Focus the Nation is everywhere at once! Coming off a successful run of 13 Clean Energy Forums across the country and on the way to more spring forums in strategic states from coast to coast- Focus the Nation is seizing this moment by being everywhere at once! [Image courtesy of Laura Westwood, Development Director- Bus Project] |
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Rethinking Diné Power: Erin and Amanda's first event You can see the original post and lots of photos from Erin and Amanda here. The Art Rally was pretty amazing. During our stay here, Erin and I have had to adjust to “Navajo Time”, meaning people are generally late, minimum half-hour. And this event proved no different. We barely finished setting up before people started coming in, but volunteers had a lot of fun spray-painting and drawing before they came. The spray paint station was a big hit, lots of kids skateboarded in to do that and the sidewalk chalk. The drawing and painting stations got a lot of creative inputs as well! Colin, one of our volunteers, started a piece Read More... |
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Clean Energy Momentum Continues in Durango! Posted by: Alicia Eimer, National Organizer- Focus the Nation Riley Neugebauer, Focus the Nation Field Organizer, continues to work for political accountability even after her Clean Energy Forum in Durango, CO. The event was the first of 25 Clean Energy Forums to be held across the country throughout this fall. Riley worked diligently and quickly to put together an event that would coincide with 350.org’s day of action on Oct. 24th (proving to be the largest international action for climate change in history). 350 activities were occurring on the lawn of Fort Lewis College and culminated with the Focus the Nation Clean Energy Forum, where students and community members had the opportunity to speak about solutions to Read More... |
