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350 travels 360 on day of climate action

October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 · No Comments

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.

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There’s a front moving in, a unified front against climate change

October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

I hate confessing to these long-ago memories. But I remember marching against Apartheid. It was a time when we students knew what the term meant, though the rest of the world was still comfortably oblivious, and had become convinced that this problem in South Africa had to be fixed.

Then we marched for divestiture, which was necessary to de-fund the unjust system in South Africa.

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Get ready for an International Day of Climate Action

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

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

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The case for 350 and a call to action

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
In honor of blog action day, so designated by the group Change.org with partners like Greenpeace and 350.org, I found myself explaining the 350 number to my kids on the way to school. As it happens, the teenager already knew about this benchmark, thanks to AP science classes and the [...]

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350.org gearing up for Copenhagen with Day of Climate Action

September 10th, 2009 · No Comments

(Editor’s note: For the latest development, see environmental activist Bill McKibben’s blog about climate economist Nicholas Stern adopting 350 ppm as the best target level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.)

By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now

What is so significant about the number 350? It is the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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