Events

• A visit to John's village

  We weaved through the crowded taxi park of Kampala. Julian fit right in carrying our bag on his head so he could be more agile. My feet were already so dirty, I wondered how I would feel after not showering for a day and hiking five kilometers through a forest to John’s village.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/32-walking-5km-home-is-not-easy-our-experience-visiting-johns-village-part-1

• Boys doing a play

  As the United Nations Climate Negotiations droned on last Friday night, a very different gathering was happening 100 meters from the conference center. At the "Speakers Corner," which was the center of the Occupy COP17 activities, 10 boys from a local township put on a play as 50 audience members stood in a circle around them.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/24-occupy-movement-stands-in-solidarity-with-community-displaced-by-cop17

• Speaking slowing in Saigon

  I opened my eyes in Vietnam Sunday morning to a stomach full of nerves. I heard the scooters honking outside, the vendors yelling – I looked over at Heather and thought, well here goes nothing. It was our first big workshop in Vietnam, we were going to be training 16 twenty-something Vietnamese activists on how to tell their personal story in relation to their work.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/about-us/11-speaking-slowly-in-saigon

• Uganda

  Okay - we landed in Uganda at Sunset. By 9pm, we were at my friend Melissa's house that I haven't seen in years but met in Argentina in 2005 for her going away party. There were a couple dozen people there from THIRTEEN different countries.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/25-uganda

• Cám ơn - Ngiyabonga - Webale - Thank you

  It doesn't matter what language you speak. Gratitude and thanks are universal. As we travel from Vietnam, to South Africa, to Uganda, the gratitude we receive from the organizations and individuals we are working with is overwhelming.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/26-cam-on-ngiyabonga-webale-thank-you

• Solar Cookers Distributed in Vietnam!

  We really miss our Vietnam friends and are SO jealous that we didn't get to come on this climate camp with the team. They went to a village in the South to set up residents with solar cookers and to learn from the local solutions that residents are using to combat climate change.

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/27-solar-cookers-distributed-in-vietnam

• Thoughts on UN Climate Negotiations

  The UN climate negotiations in Durban have come to a close. The results of the talks are not what our world needs. The negotiators settled on a plan to develop a legally binding treaty to address emissions and other climate related issues by 2015. This treaty will not go into effect until 2020, that's right, nine years from now (I’ll be forty!).

  http://www.millionpersonproject.org/mpp/change-maker-stories/22-thoughts-on-un-climate-negotiations