Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
SustianUS, representing the US youth climate movement, met with the US government delegation to the Climate Negotiations in Bali today. Take a look at how the meeting went:
The US government’s response was: “Do you have the votes?“
Let’s show them we do: Flood Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky’s Inbox with messages of solidarity, so that they can’t forget that their positions represent the past and that WE represent the future!
As a sophomore at Walter Johnson High School in Maryland, Yochi was recruited to join the SSC's Montgomery County Student Environmental Activists. After a couple of weeks of hanging out with the SSC'ers, he started organizing what turned into a county-wide campaign that gained media attention and attracted the support of the county council. While an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Yochi founded a business partnership called Brewing Hope with farmers in Chiapas, Mexico. Working with students, faculty and businesses interested in promoting the fair trade system, Yochi set up a program that not only sold coffee, but also created a relationships between coffee growers and latte drinkers. Brewing Hope's student delegations visit Mexico to learn about coffee production and meet with indigenous communities while farmers from Chiapas travel to speak at educational events in the Midwest. He turned over the management reins of Brewing Hope to study the connection between biodiversity, economic sustainability and coffee certifications in Central America. Yochi now works at Co-op America, the national green business network, expanding the market for fair trade products and pressuring businesses to adopting forward thinking policies on climate change. Yochi's first blog was titled "The Neoliberal Chopping Block"
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Do we have the votes? Thats all he had to say?
Down with bureaucrats.