Massive- Clean Energy Organizational Movement

11.22.2010

Massive- Clean Energy Organizational Movement

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Bill McKibben - 350.org <organizers@350.org> wrote:

Dear Friends,

So often we write asking you to help. Today, we just want you to celebrate.

Check out these pictures--they are from this week's huge 350 EARTH project, what the newspapers are calling 'the first planet-scale group art show.'

Can't see the pictures below? Click here to view them in your web browser.

In Delta del Ebro, Spain, citizens created the face of a young girl who wants the Delta to survive the threat of climate change:

In the USA, citizens of New Mexico showed how the Santa Fe River bed could look if there was still water running through it:

In Mexico City, people gathered to create a symbol of a hurricane--with a 350 in the eye of the storm to represent safety from dangerous climate change:

So far we've seen amazing images from Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and Manhattan in the U.S., from Spain, from the Dominican Republic, from Mexico, from Canada. With much more to come--New Delhi, Egypt, Cancun, on and on and on.

These pictures demonstrate the risks of global warming, and the range of possible solutions. And of course they remind us that we live on a planet--a delicate planet with a fragile and vital atmosphere. After all, these images are coming from 430 miles above the atmosphere, thanks to the satellites provided by our friends at DigitalGlobe. And they're coming from the incredible hard work of volunteers all over the world.

The press is really beginning to pick up on the story. For example, this one article by the Agence France Press has been reposted onto some 2,420 news sites and blogs.

Oh, and Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead, is organizing a huge EARTH project for the weekend in Brighton, UK. More details on that event--and all the EARTH projects--on earth.350.org

We're not going to solve the climate crisis with art. We know that--we're deeply based in science and politics. But we're not going to solve the climate crisis without a movement. And art is one of the ways that movements express themselves, one of the things that reach human beings in powerful and deep ways. So by next week, when the UN climate conference in Cancun opens, we'll be focused on a new set of ideas and tactics, asking your help for all sorts of practical and political things.

But today--today just know you're part of the largest art project the world has ever seen.

Onwards,

Bill McKibben, for the whole 350.org Team

P.S. This just in: a shout out from the Facebook page of the Museum of Modern Art to its half-million fans. We'd greatly appreciate if you could spread the word about 350 EARTH on your social networks too--click here to share it on Facebook and click here to share it on Twitter.

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350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action. By spreading an understanding of the science and a shared vision for a fair policy, we will ensure that the world creates bold and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. 350.org is an independent and not-for-profit project.

What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (ppm), so 350ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM-a "people powered movement" that is made of people like you in every corner of the planet.