Emily is a freelance journalist and editor who has written on business, design, health, and other facets of the environment for Grist, Dwell, Plenty, Worldchanging, and other publications. She is the blogger-in-residence on Global Warming for Change.org, the leading social networking for good website. Emily is participating on assignment from Grist.org. Grist is a leading environmental website that has published since 1999 and has over 1 million views each month.
Climate Voice Bloggers
Ella Morton
Rocketboom is a daily video-cast on international news and contemporary culture. The show attracts 300,000 daily viewers and over a million more through OnDemand video and an exclusive distribution deal with Sony that places Rocketboom content on Sony TVs and Playstations around the world. Rocketboom has been featured in The Guardian, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and CBS News. Ella is an Australian who works as the New York correspondent for Rocketboom.
Twitter: EllaMorton
Lisa Vickers
Lisa Vickers is a digital media specialist at Greenpeace International. Saving the world - one megabyte at a time! I tweet about environmental issues (mostly climate these days)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ecotist
Jodi Jacobson
Jodi L. Jacobson is a long-time leader in the health and development community and an advocate with extensive experience in public health, gender equity, human rights, environment and demographic issues. She is currently Senior Political Editor for RH Reality Check. Reality Check is a leading blog on issues of gender and health. Jodi will focus on the connection of women and climate change. She will also cover health and maternal health events on Sep. 23.
Twitter: jljacobson
Mark Leon Goldberg
Mark is the lead writer of UN Dispatch, a blog that enjoys the sponsorship of the UN Foundation. He is a Senior Correspondent with the American Prospect and hosts a weekly un-themed show on Bloggingheads. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Guardian and the New York Times among other places.
Twitter: marklgoldberg
Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers is a blogger for OpenLeft, and was until July 2007 a front-page blogger for MyDD. His focus is on polling and data-driven analysis of US politics, as well as of the blogosphere. Chris is one of the most prominent political bloggers in the country. He is a "netroots" leader and writes on politics and polling at Open Left. Bowers is also a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and a resident of Philadelphia.
Twitter: OpenLeft
Vikki Chowney
The GIN Lady is a popular online publication in the United Kingdom. Vikki writes and creates video content about the intersection of technology and climate change. She also focuses on the mobile phone explosion with a view to its impact in the global south. Vikki's work also appears on The Really Mobile Project, the Global Cool Blog, and Contagious Magazine. Vikki covered the G20 in London as part of the G20Voice project.
Todd Lucier
Todd's blog is http://climatecafe.org. Todd was a G20Voice blogger in London (April 2009) and in July 2009 he was invited to Greenland where he documented a gathering of spiritual teachers and scientists who journeyed to Russell Glacier for a week of ceremony and dialogue to address the melting of Greenland's ice cap.
He has been trained by Al Gore to deliver the award-winning slide show, An Inconvenient Truth and makes multimedia climate change presentations and delivers corporate sustainability retreats at http://www.corporatequest.ca. Todd also facilitates training sessions in sustainability and technology with the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism and has facilitated community tourism training events throughout Canada. Todd's is particular interested in supporting a sustainable, community-oriented and Web-literate Tourism Industry.
Todd was an educator for 8 years before moving to Algonquin Park, Canada, where he and his wife Martha Lucier established Northern Edge Algonquin in 1997. The Edge is an award-winning solar powered eco-retreat featuring numerous eco-friendly technologies.
Twitter: thecleversheep
Richard Littlemore
Richard spent 20 years in daily newspapers (the Ottawa Citizen, the Winnipeg Tribune, the Vancouver Sun), before turning his hand in 1995 to freelance journalism and public affairs. He wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change in 1996, was vice-chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Air Quality Committee in 1996 and 1997 and sat as a delegate to the Canadian government's (failed) Kyoto Implementation Process from 1997 to 1999.
In addition to his DeSmog endeavours, Richard is a regular speech writer for many business and academic leaders and is a senior counsellor and the lead writer at James Hoggan and Associates.
Most importantly, he is a parent to three teenage boys who, like all children of their generation, deserve to inherit a world uncompromised by climate change.
Richard Littlemore has been trained by Al Gore as part of The Climate Project, an initiative designed to educate the public about climate change.
Brendan Smith
Brendan Smith is an journalist, oysterman and labor activist. He is co-founder of Global Labor Strategies, co-director of the UCLA Law School’s Globalization and Labor Standards Project, and a consulting partner with the Progressive Technology Project. He has worked previously for Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — both as a senior legislative aide and staff on the U.S. House Banking Committee — as well as a broad range of trade unions, grassroots groups and progressive politicians.
Brendan has published two books, In the Name of Democracy (Holt/Metropolitan) and Globalization From Below (South End), and co-produced the PBS documentary Global Village or Global Pillage?, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Guardian, CBS News.com, YahooNews and the Baltimore Sun Times. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School.
John Mulrow
John is the 2009 MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow at the Worldwatch Institute. Every year MAP (www.maproyalty.com) funds several fellowships for graduated Stanford students to work in environmental NGO's worldwide. John began his 1-year fellowship in June 2009 and is working under the Climate & Energy Program to prepare Worldwatch for the UN Climate Change Conference, taking place in Copenhagen this December. Worlwatch will be contributing to the negotiations with commentary, analysis, and authoring of IPCC reports.
Before joining Worldwatch, John was the President of Students for a Sustainable Stanford, organizing water and energy conservation, food awareness, and zero waste campaigns. He has worked in his hometown of Wheaton, Illinois with SCARCE conducting environmental education programs, and spent a year in Zambia as a Project Manager for FORGE - a refugee-aid nonprofit.
John graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Earth Systems specializing in sustainable land and water use.
Ramananarivo Stephane
Stephane is a cofounder and community leader of FOKO Madagascar. He has a keen interest in deforestation issues in Madagascar and is the director of Green FOKO, the environmental arm of FOKO Madagascar. He has been writing on deforestation and tree planting, but also on human rights. As the last 10 months have been rife with violence in Madagascar, Stephane has been courageously reporting on breaches and incidents of violence on bloggers. Stephane is a leader of the fledgling blogging movement in Madagascar and is considered a "Rising Voice" by the Global Voices. blogging project. His work has been featured on international news outlets including the BBC.
Stephane writes in Malagasy, English and French at http://www.foko-madagascar.org and http://pakysse.wordpress.com
Twitter: pakysse
Matt Stroud
I have never been incarcerated. But during daylight hours, I work for the Innocence Institute of Point Park University as a reporter and graduate assistant. Alongside two tremendously qualified individuals, I investigate claims of innocence from incarcerated folks within 100 miles of Pittsburgh, PA. I read a lot of mail. In a previous life, I was editor in chief of an "urban issues" magazine called Next American City, a disgruntled Web Editor for Village Voice Media's San Francisco alt-weekly, and a staff writer with Metro Silicon Valley. I've biked across the United States, been locked alone overnight (on purpose) in the bowels of Philadelphia's subway system, thrown a no-hitter, crawled around underneath Paris and Bangkok, and watched the sad imploding spectacle of several major low-income housing units in the Pittsburgh area (which were then transformed miraculously into big box department stores). I'm glad to be free.
Matthew McDermott
After nearly a decade in the world of independent film, and recently completing a Masters degree at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, concentrating on Environmental & Energy Policy, Matthew McDermott is thrilled to have the opportunity to write about alternative energy for TreeHugger. If there’s one overarching thing that his academic research has led him to believe, it is that we are simply consuming too much energy and too many natural resources in the developed world. Only by reducing demand though a combination of conservation, efficiency improvements and public infrastructure enhancements will all the exciting work done on alternative energy be able to satisfy our seemingly endless appetite for energy. It’s as much a change in psychology as it is in technology. Matthew currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where he happily avails himself of one of the largest public transportation systems in the world. He can be reached at mmcdermott@treehugger.com
Twitter: matmcdermott
Jason Mogus
Jason Mogus is the digital strategy manager for the TckTckTck campaign.
Twitter: mogusmovers
Anna Kramer
Writer Anna Kramer joined Oxfam America in 2005. Based in Boston, she covers a broad range of issues for Oxfam, with a focus on our campaigns and organizing work.
Cara Bevington
I grew up in the spectacular Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, but now fulfil the great Australian stereotype of calling Bondi beach home.
For the past two years I’ve worked as a campaigner for Oxfam Australia, and I absolutely love it! I’ve worked on an international Make Trade Fair campaign, a domestic campaign, Close The Gap, lobbying for health equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and now most of my time is dedicated to campaigning for climate justice.
Coming from the land down under I think I can safely say that I am travelling the furthest out of the adopt-a-negotiator team to make my way to Bonn, Germany. It’s also going to be a significant journey in another sense. I’ve never been to one of these international meetings before. I’m neither a scientist nor a policy maker. But I know, without a doubt, that climate change is the defining challenge of our time and as global citizens we have both the power and responsibility to do something about it. Climate change is already having devastating impacts on our physical environment as well as the communities who inhabit it.
What do I hope to achieve being a part of the adopt-a-negotiator team in Bonn? A crisis as deep and threatening as climate change presents us all with choices and opportunities. We can cross our fingers, leave it to others, and hope it will all work out for the best. Or we can be active agents in our social, economic and environmental world, prepared to act, together, for the common good.
Anna Collins
Born and bred in Warrington in the *sunny* North of England, I was brought up by parents with a deep sense of justice and taught to always fight for what I believe is right. I guess you could say it was in the blood, my gran went to Greenham Common in the 80s.
Six months spent in Australia doing conservation work compounded my love of the environment and made me appreciate how fragile our world is. After a few years spent in Newcastle, studying, working and campaigning with
Oxfam I made the move to London to study for an MA in Environment and Development.
I also currently intern with The Green Belt Movement and I am part of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. I am helping bring together our youth delegation to Copenhagen, as well as trying to ensure the youth climate movement in the UK is as diverse as humanly possible.
I’m taking part in the Adopt-a-Negotiator project because politics is a two way process and I believe we all have a right to know, understand, and have a say, about what’s being negotiated in our name. The fate of our planet, and us all, shouldn’t be decided in secret behind closed doors.
Jonathan Sundqvist
The coming six months Sweden has the possibility to influence a large part of the European Union as well as the world.
As we all know, with power comes responsibility and as a Swedish citizen I think that Sweden should live up to the potential of a role model it now has. I’m part of this because I want show other people how important this issue is and what we can do to influence the process. We all share the Earth and therefore it is important to say what we all think in a process that concern everybody and not the least the future generations.
Leela Raina
Currently pursuing an undergraduate Economics Honours degree from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Leela Raina also did an add-on course in Green Chemistry from Hindu College. Awarded the KPMG Foundation scholarship during her freshman year, she takes an active interest in dramatics, debating and fine arts and has founded a sustainable development society at Delhi University that works on climate change, micro-finance, rural development and women’s empowerment.
In school, she led a Silver-winning team for an Asia-wide NASA design project. In summer 2008, she interned with the CDM department in IL&FS Ecosmart, and her analysis on CDM in India was published in the November Issue of TERI’s flagship magazine 0- Terragreen. She is also working with street children at an NGO in Chandigarh.
Leela loves to dance, sing and compete in field events. The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008, where she met Dr. Pachauri and other eminent leaders, served as fertile ground for inspiration. Last year she participated in the CAN International Equity Summit in Mahabalipuram and as an Agent of Change in the 2008 UNFCCC COP14.
This year after her learning experience and action research at the GTZ Summer school Hyderabad-Tirupati-Delhi on Sustainable Innovations in India she will be involved with plantation programs under the Carbon Neutral Program in association with Carbon Minus and UNEP as their National Convener.
Ben Jervey
Ben Jervey works to better communicate climate, energy, and environmental issues to mainstream audiences. He writes a weekly column for GOOD Magazine called “The New Ideal,” and has freelanced for many other magazines, newspapers, and websites.
Ben has also worked with many environment, education, and clean energy non-profit organizations. He serves as Community Editor of OnEarth Magazine, where he is launching an environmental citizen journalism platform. His reporting and work on climate change and clean energy have brought him from the streets of New York to the glaciers of eastern Greenland, to the mountain villages of Vietnam. A few years back he wrote a book–The Big Green Apple–on living a lower impact life in New York City. A bicycle enthusiast, Ben has ridden across the United States and through much of Europe
Ole Seidenberg
Ole Seidenberg is a 25-year old sociology graduate and blogger from Hamburg, Germany. Having worked as an intern for both the United Nations General Assembly in New York and a development NGO in Sierra Leone, Ole has
witnessed both diplomatic meetings and their failure to achieve clearly visible and effective decisions.
Just recently, Ole started to spread the word about social issues via Social Media. Since January ‘09, Ole tells the story of a homeless guy on his blog socialblogger.de while asking people to help this man via micro-giving opportunities. Ole believes in the power of Social Media and its capability to put pressure on all relevant decision-makers and has therefore also been one of the G20-Voice-Bloggers earlier this year.
Ole will track the Climate Negotiations from a German perspective on his blog www.climateblogger.org as well as adoptanegotiator.org
Anna da Costa
Anna is a New-Delhi based Research Fellow for the Worldwatch Institute. Her work focuses on the research, communication and analysis of India’s emerging climate change activities and political positioning. In previous roles, she has worked for The Climate Group, the Navdanya Trust, the Ecologist Magazine and the St. Paul’s Institute, both in India and the UK, looking at climate change impacts, political and corporate leadership and solutions.
Anna spent the early part of 2009 travelling across India in solar-integrated electric cars with the Indian Youth Climate Network, showcasing some of India’s many climate change solutions, and co-founding the Climate Solutions Project with friends, which she continues to work on.
Anna graduated from Cambridge University in 2006 with a BA in Zoology and Conservation.