Richard Graves
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Richard Graves, is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He is currently the blogger/online campaigner for the Global Campaign for Climate Action (www.tcktcktck.org) and the founder of Fired Up Media (www.firedupmedia.com). He served as the Editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here – Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and as a Program Director for Americans for Informed Democracy, communications coordinator for the SustainUS youth delegation to the UN climate negotiations in Bali, and the New Media Fellow for the Energy Action Action Coalition. He is a recipient of the International Youth Foundation’s Global Fellowship for 2008, was a semi-finalist for Echoing Green, and received the Project Slingshot award. He graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in Asian and Environmental History, after founding the student group MacCARES and winning campaigns around green building, renewable energy investment, and energy conservation. He thinks that young people can use new media to create the revolutionary change necessary to solve global warming and has told people that at the World Bank, UN, CNN, and other stuffy institutions.

Blog Entries by Richard Graves

Breaking: Young Leaders Stage Sit-In at Copenhagen Climate Talks

Posted December 16, 2009 | 14:13:07 (EST)

Read it live: Young people are staging a sit-in inside the Bella Center at the Copenhagen climate talks, just feet from where a summit of 115 world leaders are gathering to work of a global climate treaty. They are representing 11 million people that have signed the global...

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Champion for justice, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, says "We can swim or sink only together" in Copenhagen

Posted December 16, 2009 | 09:21:20 (EST)

Nobel Laureate and hero from the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, known as "the voice of the voiceless" is one of the strongest moral voices on climate change in recent years.

As disorder reigns and frustration builds at the Copenhagen Climate summit, his voice, joined with that...

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Massive International Turnout in Support of a 'Real Deal' Climate Treaty

Posted December 12, 2009 | 09:03:14 (EST)

Cross-posted from TckTckTck.org - the site of the Global Campaign for Climate Action

This weekend, the world is rallying for a real deal in Copenhagen. A tide of citizen action in support of world leaders signing a fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty in Copenhagen is sweeping across the...

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Climate-Gate Is Watergate Redux

Posted December 8, 2009 | 00:07:08 (EST)

Some environmental leaders have been working to minimize the scandal of ClimateGate, by focusing on the fact the hacked email archive of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit has nothing, besides a few cherry-picked quotes taken out of context, that casts a shadow of a doubt upon validity of modern climate...

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International day of action heralds the emergence of a global grassroots climate movement

Posted October 27, 2009 | 03:58:48 (EST)

The 350.org international day of climate action this Saturday, was the second in a series of ground-breaking, record smashing days of citizen action around the world on climate change. It is simply amazing that the day of action was only one part of a drumbeat of worldwide and local...

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Climate Witnesses: A voice from the Cook Islands

Posted October 27, 2009 | 02:00:05 (EST)

Today, I wanted to highlight one of the TckTckTck campaign's Climate Witnesses, Ulamila Kurai Wragg, a mother and a journalist, she has seen the impacts of climate change worldwide and has a perspective we could all do well to listen to:

My name is Ulamila Kurai Wragg and...

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Global Civil Society Starts to Take Up the Climate Challenge

Posted October 22, 2009 | 17:52:52 (EST)

Environmentalists have been looking forward to the Copenhagen climate talks this December with a mixture of dread and expectation, as it may be the last opportunity to craft a global climate treaty as we barrel towards dangerous tipping points pointed out by leading scientists. Yet, as environmental organizations started to...

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