The first in a series of posts catching up the blog since our return from Bali�

In December 2007 our crew shipped off to the UN Climate Conference in Bali, Indonesia.� Global warming wasn�t exactly stopped in Bali � the UN international processes have a tendency to live up to their reputation of making snail-paced progress.� Looks fun, eh?� Fortunately, the ground is being laid for some real breakthroughs down the road, assuming the US will sign on and cooperate with, if not lead, this global effort. �

One of our tasks while in Bali was bearing the good news and energy from the US grassroots climate movement.� We were most definitely well-received by those willing and interested to talk to a few 23-year-olds at a UN conference.� And rest assured, the rest of the world is thrilled to know that all of you all are out there organizing for action in this country.� It means a lot to folks that you, we, the grassroots, don�t intend to let this issue slide by without real action.� But we still have a long ways to go till all our communities and all our leaders have stepped up to the climate challenge at the appropriate scale.� We have to keep the movement moving.

While in Bali, we were also thrilled to meet and learn more about all the great folks building the movement in their own lands.� With just a handful of those efforts combined, one petition alone had over 2 million signatures calling for action.� The grassroots is a sizeable force.

Youth from around the world, organizations of all sizes and missions � they�re all taking on climate change in their own way.� And increasingly large amounts of the worlds attention is turning to the international processes of figuring out how exactly we�re going to collectively address this global challenge.� During the conference itself, we teamed up with several of the grassroots groups there to help pull off the great aerial photo calling for action now � just one symbol of how ready everyone is to work together for real action.� The grassroots is ready.

And so, despite the slow pace of the UN meeting itself, we left Bali seeing real opportunity, sensing real hope for what can come.� More action is brewing.

Now back in the states (aside from finding our new homes, as we headed to Bali homeless), we�re looking into all kinds of ways we might help from our US vantage point to see action through.� There�s much to be done.� Fortunately, the winter has not been an idle one�

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