Richard Graves is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He currently serves as Editor for It's Getting Hot in Here - Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and as communications coordinator for the SustainUS youth delegation to the UN climate negotiations in Bali. He helps over a hundred youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. He is a member of the Online News Association and a contributor to Celsias. He launched the Climate Netroots Project, as well as assisted in the launch of the Roosevelt Institution and the Genocide Intervention Fund. He graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in Asian and Environmental History, after founding the student group MacCARES and winning campaigns around green building, renewable energy investment, and energy conservation. He thinks that young people can use new media to create the revolutionary change necessary to solve global warming and has told people that at the World Bank, UN, and other stuffy institutions.

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