David Simpson and Jane Lapiner traveled to Marrakech, Morocco from their home in Petrolia, California last week to attend and report on the United Nations climate summit.   Report #1 November 12, 2016By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner So Much to Lose The BBC weather woman, with an outline of almost the whole Mediterranean region on the wall just behind her, was conventionally brisk and unbothered […]

Summary Report (COP21), Paris, FranceJanuary 18, 2016By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Marching Orders David Simpson and Jane Lapiner traveled to Paris from their home in Petrolia, California in Fall 2015 to attend and report on the United Nations climate summit. This is their summary report click on photos for larger images The Call A friend called the day after the late-night conclusion of the Conference […]

Report #4 Winter Solstice, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Overview (Ambition Versus the Low Carbon Economy: In Lima with the UN, 2014) Photo library at bottom. Recently returned from the desert shoreline of sub-equatorial Peru where it rarely rains, we arrived back to the deep green of a North Coast rainy season wet enough in its first half to put our part of California’s […]

Report #3 December 8th through 10th, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Commentary on some events from Days 6 through 8 of the UN climate summit. If rhetoric were effective action, the world would indeed have been saved on day seven of the 2014 UN climate change COP 20. This was officially the first day of the High Level negotiations and it was peppered, after […]

Report #2December 5, 2014By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Maybe it’s the Lima weather, extremely temperate and soft, just four degrees from the equator nearing the summer solstice here and it’s warm, yes, but pleasantly so, well below 30 degrees C at the peak of the day. Or maybe its just that the gravest threat humanity has faced is barreling typhoon-like toward all of us […]

David Simpson is a long-time Northern California bioregional pioneer and community leader based in the deeply rural Mattole River Valley of Humboldt County. Having written about and performed theater pieces with his partner Jane Lapiner on the subject of climate change in many places for several decades, in 2009 they went to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in whatever ways seemed appropriate.  In 2010 David […]