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In Seattle, rallying ’round the needle
Scott Cooper, sustainability coordinator for EOS Alliance in Seattle, wants all his fellow Emerald City denizens to join him at the Space Needle this Saturday for International Climate Action Day. 350.orgWhy? Cooper offers up a top ten reasons: 10. Hang out at the fountain with family, friends, and neighbors 9. Show the world that Seattle […]
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Groups use 350’s big day to fight cap-and-trade
Courtesy 350reasons.org350.org is taking a big-tent approach to activism on its International Day of Climate Action this Saturday, inviting anyone who wants to help to join a climate-change demonstration, or create one of their own. That open invitation means not everyone will be pushing the same message. In fact, a trio of groups will use […]
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What makes a good story?
Clearly, pretending to loft your kid across the countryside in a balloon is the big story. But what about the fairly extraordinary effort that the kids at 350.org and Bill McKibben are mounting next weekend? They’ve taken serious scientific analysis—the contention first raised by Jim Hansen that 350 ppm co2 is the target we should […]
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Day of Climate Action shows power of web organizing. Join us!
Bill McKibben and Chip Giller want you to get pumped up for the International Day of Climate Action. When Grist was launched 10 years ago, a key idea behind it was that the web could be used to spread the news about what’s really happening across the planet. Turned out to be true. Now […]
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What will you do for International Day of Climate Action on Oct. 24?
Get involved in the fight against climate change. Got plans for Saturday, Oct. 24? Join up with climate-concerned citizens around the globe for the first-ever International Day of Climate Action, to demand that world leaders get moving in the fight against climate change. More than 3,000 events in 170 countries are in the works, many […]
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A Savage way to save the world
Blogging won”t save the world, nor will rowing across the ocean. But join Roz Savage and thousands of others on Oct. 24 for 350.org’s climate action day!Courtesy Roz SavageA million keyboards were singing on Wednesday as bloggers across the Internet drummed up support for action on climate change. The cynical move here would be to […]
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What Bill McKibben learned from the gay rights march
Courtesy half.apple via FlickrIf the mainstream media is going to largely ignore a mass demonstration on the national mall—such as Sunday’s National Equality March for gay rights—public demonstrations might as well be small, numerous, and spread all over, says 350.org founder Bill McKibben. Also, they should be beautiful. McKibben—writer, Grist board member, and an occasional […]
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The economics of 350
There is good news on the climate policy front. The Europeans have ratcheted down their emission targets; the Chinese are getting serious about solar power and energy efficiency; and Washington, after opening a multi-billion dollar stimulus spicket for clean energy, is lumbering towards a carbon cap. This is progress-inadequate, but still important progress — towards […]
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A New Number For a New Era: From 9/11 to 350
Eight years ago today, two planes flew into the World Trade Center, another crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth landed in a Pennsylvania field. The raw power of that day came to be symbolized by a date composed of three numbers. Three numbers that evoked the shock of being attacked, the horror of the […]
