This is Amazing! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

I think I have met more amazing people this afternoon than I imagined even existed in the United States. I’m at Power Shift, arrived here this afternoon after a 3am start, and right now I’m sitting next to Richard, the IGHIH blogmaster. I’d never met him in person until today, but I feel like we’ve been good mates for a long time, thanks to gmail & google chat. We finally got to meet in person! I can’t describe how incredible it is to be seeing many of the US climate activists I met in Montreal during the 2005 Kyoto negotiations again. And to be meeting so many new people, all of them so passionate and interesting and willing to share their experiences with me. So, a huge thank you to all of the organisers: this is amazing amazing inspiring, and it hasn’t even “officially” started yet. But I think it’s about to, so I better go be a part of it!

I wish that all of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition crew could be here! But, the second best thing: I’ll be videotaping lots of panels and workshops and conversations with people, and posting them up here, and on my other blog at www.projectaustralia.org.au. So far, the Australian position on Power Shift 2007 is: “it’s amazing”. Stay tuned for more soon!

About Anna

Anna Rose, 25, founded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in November 2006. The coalition unites a diversity of youth organisations to build a generation-wide movement to solve climate change. Anna was a National Organiser for the National Union of Students in 2005 and is past National Convenor of the Australian Student Environment Network. She is a former editor of the Sydney University student paper, member of the United Nations Pacific Youth Environment Network, holds a 2008 Fellowship from the International Youth Foundation, and comes from the biggest coal export port in the world - Newcastle, Australia.