{"id":116623,"date":"2009-12-30T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/video-profile-indian-youth-activist-ruchi-jain\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:38:24","slug":"a-conversation-with-indian-youth-activist-ruchi-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/116623","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Indian youth activist Ruchi Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Sara Peach <\/p>\n<p>Ruchi Jain, 23, was working as a marketer in Mumbai, India, when she left her job to become a full-time climate activist. Today she works with the <a href=\"http:\/\/iycn.in\/\">Indian Youth Climate Network<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.350.org\">350.org<\/a>, and she traveled to Copenhagen in December to participate in the climate talks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I followed Jain during the two-week conference as she rallied other youth activists and testified before UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer. I found out why she gave up her marketing career and why &ndash; like many youth around the world &ndash; she now has her eyes on the United States Senate.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sara Peach reported from Copenhagen thanks to a grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/\">Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-06-with-new-year-comes-second-chance-to-save-the-world\/\">With new year comes second chance to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/tripping-out-a-first-step-in-making-the-us-india-climate-dialogue-real\/\">TRIPping out: A first step in making the US-India climate dialogue real<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/the-earths-decade\/\">The earth&#8217;s decade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1a2ab8867625e5dea0d841f13ac64991&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1a2ab8867625e5dea0d841f13ac64991&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sara Peach Ruchi Jain, 23, was working as a marketer in Mumbai, India, when she left her job to become a full-time climate activist. Today she works with the Indian Youth Climate Network and 350.org, and she traveled to Copenhagen in December to participate in the climate talks. I followed Jain during the two-week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}