The Copenhagen World Climate Conference is rapidly approaching, and news surrounding climate change is all over the media. I know that climate change is an issue that is divisive for a lot of folks. Over the past decade we’ve seen the issue become more and more politicized. Hopenhagen is trying encourage people to rally around the Copenhagen Conference and start to make the connections between themselves and the issue at large. I think often we see these issues as a product of global systemic problems. Though that may be part of the problem – we often don’t acknowledge our own role in causing the problem. If we’re going to combat something as a big as climate change, we’re going to have to start taking ownership of the problem at the individual level.
The Copenhagen World Climate Conference Site
December 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Hopenhagen is nothing more than corporate green washing.
Corporations that caused the problem are NOT going to fix it.
http://hopenhagen.org/partners
Just say NO to CORPORATEhagen.
December 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Hey Bradley – I think we met in Santa Cruz earlier this year at Freelance Camp. Thanks for checking out Remakers.
I would tend to agree with your sentiment, but I think the Hopenhagen blog has done a nice job reporting back from the conference. If you check out their guests posts you’ll find a handful of serious individuals deeply involved in the climate change issue. It didn’t strike me as typical corporate fluff.
I’m certainly suspect of companies like Dupont putting their names on green initiatives, but at the same time I’m critical of companies that aren’t connected.
December 15th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hey Reid. Thanks for your reply. I previously failed to say here that this is awesome looking website.
My reaction is partly based off Vandana Shiva’s. She spoke a bit about this yesterday on Democracy Now! “Yeah, my heart just sank, because when I got off the flight, the first thing I saw was a Coca-Cola bottle, “Hopenhagen.” Well, if you’ve been to Plachimada, India, where 1.4 million liters, 1.5 million liters were extracted by Coca-Cola every day, and—”
“Liters of water to make these soft drinks and to do the bottling of water. The women had to rise up against Coca-Cola. The women had to say, “Shut this plant down, because we are having to walk ten miles to get clean and safe water.” That would not be Hopenhagen. The women of Plachimada would not see hope in a Coca-Cola bottle.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/14/indian_environmentalist_vandana_shiva_it_is
I’m sure you’re correct, that there is useful content on the site and some people doing positive work under the initiative.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Interesting project trying to convince Coca Cola to utilize it’s distribution chain in developing countries.
http://www.design21sdn.com/feature/5600