NYT Forum on energy and environment: Check it out!

The New York Times (NYT) launched a forum allowing readers to discuss the more than twenty articles focused on energy published by the NYT over the past year. The forum opened last December 25th, and it already has more than 420 comments. The diversity of comments is impressive, some clearly stressing the global need to move toward secure, environmentally friendly, and emissions-free energy sources. Other comments, however, dismiss the urgency of accelerating the development of renewable technologies, and tackling climate change.

I strongly encourage you check out the forum, explore the issues, and post your questions and comments. Though The Times’ writers will not be able to respond to every comment as the forum closed last night, other readers are continuing the dialogue. I urge you to look over some of the comments posted in the past few days; some are very insightful while others need to be disputed. Share your reactions to comments posted in the forum referencing the comment number, and tell the NYT what our generation believes!

About Juan

Juan Hoffmaister, originally from Costa Rica, is active young leader working to bring the environmental and development agenda together. He formerly served as youth advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and has represented youth perspectives on environmental negotiations worldwide. His work has been featured by NPR and other media outlets, and has recently completed a Watson Fellowship meeting comity leaders from across 4 continents responding to climate-induced disasters and water stress around the world through community-based adaptation. He has been an active advocate in UN negotiations since 2005, and he believes that the industrialized nations have the responsibility of helping the poor and vulnerable cope with the impacts of our changing climates, and he is currently working with youth from around the world in creating a new international agreement to keep the planet cool. On his spare time, he enjoys diving, reading, and drinking coffee. More @ ChangingClimates.info

4 Responses to “NYT Forum on energy and environment: Check it out!”

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1 May Boeve Jan 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Thanks for calling our attention to this, Juan–
I just listened to NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” this morning, and the show’s topic invited listeners to call in and nominate persons of the year for 2006. A number of people nominated climate heroes, including one person who specifcially commended journalists like Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben. Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, a freqent contributor to the forum you mentioned, also belongs on that list.
2 LolitochkaBC May 10th, 2007 at 1:28 am

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3 BilaStaltquam May 18th, 2009 at 10:00 am

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