Expedition Copenhagen
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LiveStreaming from Copenhagen
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be broadcasting interviews with environmental leaders attending COP15. Tune in daily, Monday through Friday, to our Livestream facebook page at 3 PM EST to catch our latest interview as we chat live with people from Copenhagen
Climate Counts Director Wood Turner will anchor the broadcasts, which will feature three of our Expedition Copenhagen youth delegates interviewing leaders of the climate-change movement, including:
- Arctic Explorer and Expedition Copenhagen Leader Will Steger
- Environmentalist Bill McKibben
- Cycling Advocate Mikael Colville-Andersen
- Extreme Skier Alison Gannett
- Ocean Rower Roz Savage
- Focus the Nation Director Garett Brennan.
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Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word on this exciting initiative. Stonyfield will be tweeting from thei Twitter account @Stonyfield, and posting daily reminders in advance of the Livestream chats on their main Facebook page: www.facebook.com/stonyfieldfarm. A simple retweet or even sharing the Facebook posts would be much appreciated.
Join us online live from Copenhagen through Friday December 18, 2009.
Expedition Copenhagen Events
| Date | Time | Event Location | Event Title | Other Presenters/ Featured Speakers | Audience | Event Description |
| Dec/7/2009 | 5:30-6 p.m. | Tent in Nytorv Square | WWF Artic Programme's Youth Day | Other Youth Day speakers: Canadian Youth Delegation, youth who traveled to the arctic, Arctcirq artistic Inuit youth collective | General public | Delegates will present for 30 minutes about Expedition Copenhagen. |
| Dec/7/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Roz Savage | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/8/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Will Steger | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/9/2009 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | DIS Office: Vestergade 10-A12, Downtown Copenhagen | Danish Institute for Study (DIS) Abroad Lecture | NA | American study abroad students | Will Steger will be presenting "Eyewitness to Global Warming" to DIS (Danish Institute for Study Abroad), then delegates will speak for 10-15 minutes about what they've been doing at home and how the conference has been going, followed by a Q & A session. |
| Dec/9/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Mikael | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/10/2009 | 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Frederiksværk Gymnasium, Strandgade 34, 3300 Frederiksværk, Denmark | Danish School Visit | NA | Danish high school students | We will visit classrooms and take part in meetings with teachers. Students may have prepared position statements for us. |
| Dec/10/2009 | 3:00-5:45 p.m. | Bella Center, COP-15 U.S. Center, exact location TBA (webinar) | NOAA & EPA Side Event: Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands Education | Hosts: Victoria Arthur, USDA; Peg Steffen, NOAA; Moderator: Bruce Moravchik, NOAA; Other presenters: U.S. students from Clermont Elementary School, Paul Public Charter School, Thurgood Marshall Academy | Elementary and middle school students from the United States | The United States Global Change Research Program has created the Climate Change Wildlife and Wildlands toolkit for educators. Students will give presentations based on classroom work they have done with this toolkit and how they have taken action on climate change. We will share our experiences with them. WSF delegates will give a 5 minute overview of their participation in the COP-15 conference and then present for 10 minutes about the Expedition and what they've been doing to help slow climate change. By Dec. 4 delegates must submit questions they would like to ask the U.S. students. |
| Dec/10/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Garett | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/10/2009 | 11:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. | Location TBD, probably at our apartments | YEA!MN Webinar | NA | High school environmental activists from MN | YEA!MN will want to hear how we are doing in Copenhagen for their quarterly event. Ideas for this are still shaping up. |
| Dec/11/2009 | 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Frederiksværk Gymnasium, Strandgade 34, 3300 Frederiksværk, Denmark | Danish School Visit | NA | Danish high school students | We will visit classrooms and take part in meetings with teachers. Students may have prepared position statements for us. |
| Dec/11/2009 | 5-7 p.m. | Bella Center, exact location TBA | Midwest Press Conference | Staff of Great Plains Institute, Midwest business leaders, more TBA | U.S. Press | Live webinar press conference with updates from many stakeholders from the Midwest. |
| Dec/11/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Bill McKibben | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/Dec/2009 | 11 a.m. - noon | Konges Nytorv Square (on the boat nearby) | Event with Polar Conservation Organisation | NA | Young activists, some green business representatives | "Eyewitness to Global Warming" presentation with an awareness raising focus. The bus only seats 8 people, but the presentation will be recorded and broadcasted at their boat throughout the following week. |
| Dec/Dec/2009 | 1-2 p.m. | Tent in Nytorv Square | WWF Artic Programme's Explorer Day | Other Explorers Day speakers: Pen Hadow, Stephane Levin, Cameron Dueck, Ola Skinnarmo | General public | Will Steger will be presenting "Eyewitness to Global Warming" |
| Dec/Dec/2009 | 4-5 p.m. | Tent in Nytorv Square | WWF Artic Programme's Explorer Day | NA | General public | Will Steger will be presenting "Eyewitness to Global Warming" |
| Dec/Dec/2009 | 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. | Location TBD | Question and Answer Session with Delegates | Movie of Will Steger | General public, members of 1Sky, Oxfam, Amnesty | Public event at the Minneapolis Library that will feature a video of Will and live Skype-in question and answer session with delegates. |
| Dec/13/2009 | 2-3 p.m. | Konges Nytorv Square (on the bus) | Event with Polar Conservation Organisation | NA | Young activists | Delegates can participate in interviews with Polar Conservation Organisation or give a presentation on the boat or on the bus. We are still creating this event. |
| Dec/14/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Alison | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/14/2009 | 7-9 p.m. | Bellona Room at the Bella Center | United Nations Role Play | Sustainability Institute facilitators, NWF participation | Our delegates and international youth we invite | Climate negotiations role play including computer simulation and discussions. |
| Dec/15/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Roz Savage Savage | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/16/2009 | 4-6 p.m. | Yellow Room at the Klimaforum | Why a Midwest Youth DelegationNA | School of Environmental Studies delegation, possibly other Midwest youth | Whoever we invite, Klimaforum participants | This will be a workshop that we run at Klimaforum. We can use the time as we like. It may be a good time to bring together all Midwest youth we know of. Or we could invite a delegation from another country to compare strategies. |
| Dec/16/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Will Steger or Bill McKibben | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/17/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Mikael or Alison | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
| Dec/18/2009 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | TBD | Stonyfield Farm Webinar | Garett | Stonyfield, classrooms in the U.S. | Interview will be aired. |
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To the COP15 Delegation
Here are a few excerpts of some great position statements I have received. These great ideas will send a clear message to the COP15 delegate: we are ready for some action!"
If the government invests money in funding energy-saving projects and programs to help citizens understand global warming and what they can do about it, the earth will be stable again and we can go about our lives, knowing that we have saved ourselves from a terrible fate...Fixing climate change will change the way we think and live, but if we just grit our teeth and dive in, we will be proud of battling a force that rules our lives, and winning, doing what had to be done." -Madeline, 8th grade, St. Paul
"Now, it's not just the moose, or the polar bears, the walruses or the whales that we're trying to save. Us humans are in this too. Changing weather can increase both the frequency and size of hurricanes and other storms, developing storms more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, putting thousands of homes and lives at risk...we should at least establish benchmarks for reducing CO2 levels, perhaps reducing by 20% or so by 2020, or perhaps we could establish a new agreement for global participation for lowering greenhouse gas emission starting now, getting every country, every person, to play a small part in doing something simple to reduce our emissions." -Aaron
"Only stabilizing the emission will not be enough when it gets to 2050 because ice caps are already melting, and polar bears are already having troubles finding places to live, if we only stabilize the emission, it will already be too late for the polar bears, and costal places will already be flooded...When our world is building millions of new carbon-producing technologies- why can’t we work on producing more carbon reducing technologies?" -Maddy, St. Paul
"The first thing the conference should do is to get all nations committed. Developed and developing countries need to be engaged." -Lineas, 8th grade, St. Paul
The Big Day
The Climate Change Conference begins tomorrow.
With pretty much everyone from WSF attending, things have been pretty quiet back here in Minnesota. But lucky for me, as the education intern, my mailbox has not been quiet! I have received many position statements from students with great ideas about the COP15 conference. Check back here frequently to read excerpts of what your peers have to say about climate change!
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