IGHIH Editors Write for U.S. Department of State

I’ve been scrolling through the stats of this blog for the past 20 minutes, and it suddenly dawned on me how incredible this haven of writing really is. Together our team of volunteer writers – 321 contributors – have created a blog at the helm of an issue of our time. ItsGettingHotInHere.org began with a few dozen writers in 2005. And now we’ve had well over 1 million readers in the last 3 years.

Once newbie-bloggers, Richard Graves and myself (officially tied at 76 blog posts apiece) had the honor of being placed in a publication next to the likes of R.K. Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Michael Specter of The New Yorker, and U.S. Special Envoy on climate change Todd Stern this past week. The U.S. Department of State put out Climate Change Perspectives, a special edition of their monthly eJournal publication, printed versions of which go to embassies around the world. Enjoy the read!

International Youth: Fired Up About Climate Change, by Richard Graves: An American entrepreneur and activist writes that the generations that will inherit the impacts of climate change want environmental leadership, responsible climate policies, and green jobs.

O Canada: How Good It Could Be, by Zoë Caron: A young Canadian environmental activist surveys the climate change challenges in her country and how Canadian provincial governments are acting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

About Zoë

Zoë is the co-author of ''Global Warming for Dummies" and Editor on ItsGettingHotInHere. She is the Climate Policy & Advocacy Specialist for WWF-Canada and is on the provincial renewable energy stakeholder consultation project team in Nova Scotia. She is President on the national board of Sierra Club Canada and was a founding member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. Zoë attends United Nations Climate Change Conferences and was aboard the Students On Ice International Polar Year 2007 Expedition to Antarctica.