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 […]

Summary Report (COP19), Warsaw, PolandDecember 4, 2013By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Learning in Warsaw The IETA and Climate Profit There was a small meeting room down a hard-to-find hallway on one of the five floors of the vast, mildly disorienting (depending on the degree of your jet lag) Stadion Narodowy (National Stadium) in the midst of Warsaw where the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP […]

Report #3 December 30, 2010By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Cancún’s Question: Is Climate Change an Issue for “Social Movements” or Just Another Business Proposition? Click on photos for larger images In seeking opinion to help determine the relative success or failure of the UN climate change conference in Cancún this year, it is impossible not to notice how little coverage of any kind the major […]

Report #2December 7, 2010 by David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Cancun Climate Summit The Police The Policia Federal are everywhere now in Cancún. Gouts of them stationed along various points on the highway, placed according to a plan that is not immediately evident. They are especially thick, of course, anywhere near Cancún Messe, the convention center outside of the city where part of the UN Climate Conference, COP […]

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, they went to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in whatever ways seemed appropriate. Now David and Jane are […]

Report #6January 11, 2010By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen-Gone But Not Forgotten This is a long, somewhat tortured essay on experiences and perspective gleaned by an amateur in both climate science and journalism in Copenhagen. If it does not subtract from the crucial ongoing dialogue, I will be relieved, If it adds even one small iota of perspective that is useful to the cause […]

Report #5 December 17, 2009By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Copenhagen and the Nature of Power To readers. Please forgive the tardiness of this essay. I think you will find it still quite relevant even though the COP 15 has been declared officially over as of about 3 PM today when UNFCC Director, Ivo De Boer, gave his last press conference. He did what he […]

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 […]