published October 9, 2011 and has No Comments
The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the
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published December 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Can government be like a smartphone? An open platform, waiting for citizens to plug in their "apps" to its operating system? The rise of the millennial generation, along with the spread of the open source software movement, has opened up a whole new toolkit for engagement in the democratic process. Jared Duval, a precocious millennial himself, directed the Sierra ...
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published October 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Though last year's event on the International Day of Climate Action were big, the number of groups participating in this year's Global Work Party have already surpassed those. Photo: 350.org / Creative Commons With just nine days left until
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published December 14, 2009 and has No Comments
All photos: Matthew McDermott Tonight at Klimaforum President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives elevated himself to eco-rock star status. True to that moniker Nasheed arrived fashionable late -- 350.org 's Bill McKibben having to speak for a bit longer than I think he intended -- and then proceeded to lay everything out in no uncertain terms. "History shows us ...
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published October 28, 2009 and has No Comments
October 4th marked a day of action that spanned 181 countries and 5,200 separate events, all for the sake of one number: 350. Inspired by this colossal (and exceedingly creative) global display, a small cadre of New York models put their beautiful bodies behind the message of atmospheric salvation. In this video for 350.org , they count backward from ...
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published October 23, 2009 and has No Comments
Last weekend the president of the Maldives held an unusual cabinet meeting. Underwater. The president asked his ministers to learn scuba diving for their unusual in-the-sea meeting, where they used hand signals and wrote on slates to communicate in an aquatic environment. The Maldives ministers called for rapid greenhouse gas reduction to a concentration of 350 parts per million. ...
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published October 21, 2009 and has No Comments
Schoolchildren in the Maldives form a giant 350 in the lead up to October 24th. I should be diligently trying to psych people up for this weekend's 350.org International Day of Climate Action. Instead, I'm kind of stunned, knocked for a loop, flabbergasted. The outpouring of organizing that is going on around the world truly boggles my mind. Yesterday ...
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published October 14, 2009 and has No Comments
photograph courtesy of 350.org Here's the thing. We've tried almost every approach in dealing with climate change: the scientists have told us what needs to be done, the engineers have told us how to do it, the economists have certified that we can afford it (and that we can't afford not to). We've had great political leaders like Al ...
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published October 6, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo courtesy 350.org 350 is the most important number on the planet. Which is odd, because until about 22 months ago no one even knew it mattered. But that's when, in December of 2007, NASA's Jim Hansen gave a slide show at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. He'd been thinking about what it meant that ...
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published October 1, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Cellular Immunity via flickr. Bill McKibben certainly has an enviable way with words: Nature Magazine has a new feature on planetary boundaries , which once crossed have devastating biological consequences -- and we've already crossed three of the nine identified. What McKibben does so well in a new piece for
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