Copenhagen Cafe Archives

In December 2009, most of the world's environmental community was focused on the activities occurring in and around the Bella Conference Center in Denmark - site of the annual UN global climate negotiations. However, the SF Carbon Collaborative saw this an opportunity to educate and engage a local audience. To this end, we hosted the Copenhagen Cafe at the Green Zebra Environmental Action Center. Over the span of two weeks, we reached nearly 200 people with an impressive range of environmental and climate change content.

We discussed innovative approaches to forest conservation, explored carbon cycling in the oceans, and considered the broader implications of our food choices. We took a comprehensive look at the role urban environments and clean technologies will play in our future efforts to combat climate change. And we connected Cafe attendees with local resources and organizations, thereby enabling them to translate their newfound interest and understanding into action. It was a wonderful way for us to end the year and a great source of momentum as we headed into 2010. 

Below are be links to the presentations delivered by our program panelists. 

• 12/8/09 - Oceans Panel with Dr. Greg Rau of Lawrence Livermore Labs, Kevin Whilden of Conserve Markets, and David de Rothschild of Adventure Ecology & the Plastiki Exhibition, moderated by David Pascal of the Carbon Collaborative.
• 12/9/09 - Forests Panel with Colin Weil of EcoReserve, Gregor MacLennan of Amazon Watch, and MaryKate Hanlon of New Forests, moderated by David Pascal of the Carbon Collaborative.
• 12/10/09 - Food Systems through Film and Media with Dr. Kirk Bergstrom of WorldLink and Producer of the documentary Nourish, Erica Priggen of Free Range Studios and Producer of The Meatrix series, and Haven Bourque of Straus Communications and the Low Carbon Diet Calculator, moderated by David Pascal of the Carbon Collaborative.
• 12/14/09 - Sustainable Cities Panel with Gordon Feller of The Urban Age Institute, Hal LaFlash of PG&E, Jean Rogers of Arup, and Laura Schewel of UC Berkeley & the Rocky Mountain Institute, moderated by Waren Karlenzig of Common Current. 
• 12/15/09 - Clean Technology Panel with John Balbach of the Cleantech Group and Uday Mathur of PG&E, moderated by Robert O'Connor of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. 
• 12/17/09 - Taking Local Action with presentation from Recurve, Next Agenda, 1BOG, SF Environment, Civil Eats, and the US EPA. 

 

Attachment	Size
Oceans Web Archive.pdf	12.01 MB
Forests Web Archive.pdf	21.2 MB
Cities Web Archive.pdf	31.2 MB