Friends of the Earth is an international network of environmental organizations that considers environmental issues in their social, political and human rights contexts. The campaigns seek to address the economic and development aspects of sustainability. The campaigns are mostly about economic justice and resisting neoliberalism, forests and biodiversity, food sovereignty and climate justice and energy. Daniel Pentzlin is a campaigner at the European division of Friends of the Earth. He is working from Brussels to coordinate campaigns all over Europe. GLOBAL IDEAS talked to Daniel at the re:campaign in Berlin about the fascinating and the frustrating aspects of his work.

GLOBAL IDEAS has been at the Berlin based re:campaign, a conference that presents and analyses the best in online-campaigning. We shot a few interviews during the event which we will be releasing from today.

Our guest in the first interview was Ole Seidenberg. He is one of the organizers of the event. His agency ‘Nest’ counsels NGOs to build up successful campaigning using the internet. Ole has as well been one of the bloggers who was part of the initiative “Adopt A Negotiator.” We talked about climate change and social media. The interview was held in german.