photo: Paul Burani via flickr.
Klimaforum09 bills itself as "your climate summit" and the global civil society counterpart to the official conference happening out at the Bella Centre.
From December 7-18 there will be over 150 talks, exhibitions, music performances, film showings, and more -- all taking place in DGI-byen over by the Copenhagen central train station.
Want to here authors and activists Vandana Shiva and Naomi Klein speak? Learn how the informal wastepicking sector is a front-line solution to climate change? The impact of meat-eating on climate? How the world's religions are mobilizing around climate? Why GMOs aren't the solution and diverse small-scale agriculture is? Or start each day with silent meditation followed by discussion? Head here.
People's Climate Action also has quite an extensive list of happenings. There's some overlap with Klimaforum09 (everyone is cross-listing events...) but the focus here is a bit broader: Hear how youth from Arctic communities are trying to preserve their heritage; talk about the relationship between artists and climate change; and learn video skills to tell your own climate activism story.
Over in the village within a city of Christiana -- a self-governing commune/town that's been in place since 1971 -- the Climate Bottom Meeting has events all day, every day for the length of COP15.
Talks, discussions and events focus on society's relationship with money, sustainable building and urban renewal, cradle to cradle design, healing health & culture, community & sustainability.
Sounds like perennial TreeHugger subjects, though from the short time I've spent there, with a bit more of your traditional hippy commune aesthetic than normally makes the digital pages around here.