New England sending a crowd to climate talks

Copenhagen draws region’s students, groups

Tufts student Odette Mucha raised $300 for her Copenhagen trip by selling cookies. The two-week summit starts Dec. 7. (Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe)

By Beth Daley

Globe Staff / November 30, 2009

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Last spring, when many people were still only dimly aware of the world climate summit planned for Copenhagen, Josh Minney, a Northeastern University senior, stayed up much of the night writing a paper justifying why he should be allowed to go. He spent months after that trying to raise money and plotting details of a trip he felt could be ... (Full article: 1094 words)