Alex White » 350ppm http://alexwhite.org Communicator | Online Strategist | Considered Opinions Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:51:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 350.org and the Day of Climate Action http://alexwhite.org/2009/10/350-org-and-the-day-of-climate-action/ http://alexwhite.org/2009/10/350-org-and-the-day-of-climate-action/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:11:38 +0000 Alex http://alexwhite.org/?p=637
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    Joe Trippi has a great wrap of the decentralised nature of this global movement, and the massive organising effort that was mobilised to make Saturday 24 October such a success.

    Quoth Trippi:

    Issuing calls to action via text message, soliciting photo sharing of actions, and providing real-time updates to supporters, onlookers, and the media, the 350.org International Day of Climate Action exempelifies a new style of organizing.

    Organizers and participants utilized the 350.org Facebook group and Twitter stream to provide updates and disseminate information. You can also find an impressive collection of photographs on the 350.org Flickr collections.

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    Image from News.com.au

    Today marked the International Day of Climate Action, organised by 350.org.

    The Labor Environment Action Network is one of 14 environmental organisations in Australia supporting the activities that took place.

    Thousands of Australians took part hundreds of local activities, the most visually spectacular of which was a rally on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

    In Melbourne there was a large bike ride that started in Federation Square.

    The point of the day is to put pressure on world governments to take real action on climate change. 350.org is calling on global targets that will bring the carbon dioxide levels to less than 350 parts per million (the concentration of CO2).

    World governments are currently going into Copenhagen with a goal of 450ppm. This would result in a 50/50 chance of 2 degrees global warming, which would put us over climatic tipping points. The result: dangerous climate change.

    The scientific evidence is increasingly saying that we need to get significantly below 350ppm.LEAN is calling for a global target of 325ppm or less.

    Check out the 350 tweets here.

    Read other climate change posts on my blog.

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