Thursday, July 13, 2006

(Secondary) School Summit on Climate Change

I stumbled into this, albeit a few days late. Its interesting because of how the summit is organized and geared toward teens or young people. I saw Ian Pearson (Climate Change and Environment Officer, DEFRA) speak today. It was very basic, didn't get at (m)any of the tough questions. But he did talk about innovative things the UK is doing, and targets they're setting. The participants have handsets, and every once in a while the talk was interrupted by this MC who sounds like one of the radio jockeys - and the attendees hit a button on their handset which sends their vote to some question to the master computer up front. Very interactive and i wonder why we don't have more of this kind of thing? How can we have super cool tricked out technology for a meeting, when the UN can't even make websites (like this , this, and this) that are friendly to look at and actually work? Anyway, it was inspiring to see that maybe young generations will grow up hearing about climate change and living life in a different way - just like many of us did when we first started hearing about recycling and Earth Day back in the USA.

Check out the UK government's flashy cool site on what they're doing about climate change, and read about the Climate Champions who will be raising awareness in their regions with support from DEFRA.

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