It’s Earth Day, Look North

More than 400 representatives of the world’s indigenous peoples are meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, to share their experiences of climate change and their knowledge of ways to mitigate and adapt to global warming’s myriad impacts. They’ll also be agreeing on a set of policy measures and actions the world’s governments ought to take when the next UN Framework Convention on Climate Change gathering takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. Learn more and follow the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change here (it ends on Friday, April 24). “We don’t want to be seen just as the powerless victims of climate change,” Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat native of Nome, Alaska and chair of the summit told Reuters. “Our conference is really stirred by our wanting to become leaders … on climate change because we have the ability to bring information from our communities to the rest of the world.” World, it’s Earth Day. Are you listening…or tweeting?