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350 travels 360 on day of climate action

October 26th, 2009

By Sommer Saadi and Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

If anyone doubted that there’s a global grassroots movement to fight climate change, they may reconsider after viewing the photos that streamed in this weekend from the International Day of Climate Action.

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Pacific Islanders demonstrate to show climate change is here now

October 23rd, 2009

This video is the one of the first depicting actions around the world as the International Day of Climate Action gets underway. From the shores of New Zealand, residents of Pacific Islands that stand to be destroyed by the rising seas of climate change, have constructed a clothesline with each garment representing a threatened island.

Get ready for an International Day of Climate Action

October 22nd, 2009

By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now

This Saturday is International Day of Climate Action — a chance for everyone to take a stand on behalf of the planet and possibly participate in one of 4,300 actions that are planned in 171 countries.

350.org began the International Day of Climate Action campaign not only to wake up politicians, but wake up the world. The group wants everyone to know about and understand the number 350, which signifies the level many scientists have identified as the safe utmost limit for CO2 in the atmosphere, in parts per million.

Here are a few unique events around the US: 350-org-bill-mckibben