Report #4 December 17, 2009By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Civil Society is Exiled Photo library at bottom. At the Media Center I hook up my computer daily and establish a post from which I can foray out into a world so rich with plenary sessions, side events, press conferences and special appearances that all choices require several sacrifices. The neighborhood—the particular section of the […]

Report #3 December 16, 2009By David Simpson  and Jane Lapiner Action Day? A wet snow fell in Copenhagen last night, dusting the streets and putting an added new chill in the air. In the collective houses, houseboats and apartments of Chistiana, Copenhagen’s fabled squatter enclave, thousands of activists who have been marching and demonstrating throughout the city have been waiting eagerly for this day. Their numbers […]

Report #2 December 16, 2009By David Simpson  and Jane Lapiner What is the Copenhagen Climate Conference Like? Being at COP 15* in Copenhagen is an experience for which there is no adequate precedent, especially for a climate-change conference novice like myself. I admit that I have never before attended an event with 30,000 other people who were all talking about how to save the human species. […]

Report #1 December 11, 2009By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner En Route to Copenhagen The first challenge to our sortie out into the world, for which the intention is to be present at the higher councils where the climate crisis might be diminished, came before we’d even gotten out of Humboldt County. It was during the security check at the Arcata Airport. A friendly TSA guard, while […]