October 4, 2010 | ModeShift

Behind The Great Wall of Climate Change, A Young American Artist Gaining Global Distinction

by Keith SchneiderOctober 4, 2010October 4, 20100

TIANJIN, China – In almost every way – timing, media coverage, official attention, and spirited engagementÂ –Â the brief morning event to open the climate conference here was a triumph for its organizers — the Global Campaign For Climate Action (GCCA), Tck tck tck, and Greenpeace. The stamping of a symbolic Great Climate Wall of China with a Chinese proverb also was another satisfying example of leveraging art in the public interest for the Great …

In Tianjin, Fresh Hope For Climate Progress

by Keith SchneiderOctober 4, 2010October 4, 20101

TIANJIN, China – In a gesture that signaled more urgent engagement to cool the planet, the United Nation’s chief climate negotiator today opened this nation’s first international climate conference by sealing a symbolic Great Climate Wall of China with an ancient proverb. Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and climate expert, who in May was named the new executive secretary for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) stamped the proverb – “with everyone’s …