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350 is the red line for the global climate and the start line for a global movement. We're here to help you take action, spread this number, and build that movement.
Action Text 20 word goal, For the box that has links to Action Summary and action gallery. (Jeremy)
People all over the world are taking action on 350. Check it out, get inspired, become a part of it.
FAQs (Bill)
FAQ 1 - So, what is global warming and what's the problem anyway?
The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The most common greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. Many of the activities we do every day like turn the lights on, cook food, or heat or cool our homes rely on energy sources like coal and oil that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. This is a major problem because global warming destabilizes the delicate balance that makes life on this planet possible. Just a few degrees in temperature can completely change the world as know it, and threaten the lives of millions of people around the world. But don't give up hope! You can help stop global warming by taking action here at 350.org.
Beginning in the 18th century, we started to burn coal and gas and oil to produce energy and goods, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere began to rise, at first slowly and now more quickly. Many of the activities we do every day like turn the lights on, cook food, or heat or cool our homes rely on energy sources like coal and oil that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. We're taking millions of years worth of carbon, stored beneath the earth as fossil fuels, and releasing it into the atmosphere. By now—and this is the second number—the planet has 387 parts per million CO2 – and is rising by about 2 parts per million every year. [graph from front page with the 3 numbers]
FAQ 2—So if we're already past 350, are we all doomed?
No. We're like the patient that goes to the doctor and learns he's overweight, or his cholesterol is too high. He doesn't die immediately—but until he changes his lifestyle and gets back down to the safe zone, he's at more risk for heart attack or stroke. The planet is in its danger zone because we've poured too much carbon into the atmosphere, and we're starting to see signs of real trouble: melting ice caps, rapidly spreading drought. We need to scramble back as quickly as we can to safety.
FAQ 3—How do we get back to 350?
We need an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions fast. The United Nations is working on a treaty, which is supposed to be completed in December of 2009 at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. But the current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety. This treaty needs to put a high enough price on carbon that we stop using so much. It also needs needs to make sure that poor countries are ensured a fair chance to develop.
FAQ 4 - OK, but how do we actually reduce carbon emissions to get to 350?
Make no mistake--getting back to 350 means transforming our world. It means building solar arrays instead of coal plants, it means planting trees instead of clear-cutting rainforests, it means increasing efficiency and decreasing our waste. Getting to 350 means developing a thousand different solutions--all of which will become much easier if we have a global treaty grounded in the latest science and built around the principles of equity and justice.
To get this kind of treaty, we need a movement of people who care enough about our shared global future to get involved and make their voices heard.
FAQ 5—Will this thing work? Will the UN listen?
Only if we're loud enough.
If we can make this number known across the planet, that mere fact will exert some real pressure on negotiators. We need people to understand that 350 marks either success or failure for these climate negotiations. It's not an easy fight—the other side has the power of the fossil fuel industry. But we think the voice of ordinary people will be heard, if it's loud enough. That's all of our job—to make enough noise that we can't be easily ignored.
FAQ 6—Where did this 350 number come from?
Dr. James Hansen, of NASA, the United States' space agency, has been researching global warming longer than just about anyone else. He was the first to publicly testify before the U.S. Congress, in June of 1988, that global warming was real. He and his colleagues have used both real-world observation, computer simulation, and mountains of data about ancient climates to calculate what constitutes dangerous quantities of carbon in the atmosphere. The Bush Administration has tried to keep Hansen and his team from speaking publicly, but their analysis has been widely praised by other scientists, and by experts like Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. The full text of James Hansen's paper about 350 can be found here.
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FAQ 7—Isn't America the biggest source of the problem?
Yes—America has been producing more co2 than any other country, and leads the industrialized world in per capita emissions. Even though China now produces as much co2 annually, the US still produces many times more carbon per person than China, India, and most other countries. And America has blocked meaningful international action for many years. That's why many of us at
350.org have worked hard to change U.S. policy—we staged more than 2,000 demonstrations in all 50 states in 2007, and helped spur Congress to pass the first real laws to reduce co2. Now we need help from around the world to persuade both the U.S. and the U.N. to continue the process.
FAQ 8 - What about China and India?
China and India and the rest of the developing world need to be involved. But since per capita they use far less energy than the West, and have been doing so for much shorter periods of time, and are using fossil fuels to pull people out of poverty, their involvement needs to be different. The West is going to have to use some tiny percentage of the wealth it built up filling the atmosphere with carbon to transfer technology north to south so that these countries can meet their legitimate development needs without burning all their coal. A great resource for thinking about these questions is the paper prepared by the Greenhouse Rights Network, which can be found here
FAQ 9 - 350 is just a number. Wouldn't "Climate Emergency" or "Clean Energy Now" be a better call to action?
350 translates into many languages--numerals are among the few things most people around the world recognize. More to the point, 350 tells us what we need to do. Far from boring, it's the most important number in the world. It contains, rightly understood, the recipe for a very different world, one that moves past cheap fossil fuel to more sensible technologies, more closely-knit communities, and a more equitable global society.
FAQ 10 - Why another organization--there are already too many things going on!
It's true, there are lots of organizations and individuals working hard to solve the climate crisis. This is great news--it means that we don't really need to build a movement from scratch because it's already bubbling up all over the world.
Our hope is that we can shine a spotlight on the work of existing organizations, highlighting everyone's incredible work and knitting these many efforts together for a powerful and unified call to action--a call that is global, scientific, and specific. By providing a common platform with the 350 target, we can help to stitch together a whole that is truly greater than the sum of its parts, a diverse movement that speaks with one collective voice.
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About 350
Our Mission (Jamie)
350.org spreads the most important number on the planet by building a global grassroots climate movement united by a common call to action. Everyone on the planet, from the smallest village to the largest nation, needs to know what 350 means. And the movement to spread that number needs to be beautiful, creative, and unstoppable. With your help, we will organize actions around the world to spread the number 350 and highlight equitable solutions to the climate crisis.
Global warming threatens everyone, especially the poorest and most vulnerable among us. The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm), we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth and its people. But solutions exist. If we join together as a global community
and aim for 350, we can stop the climate crisis and create a more just society for all.
Reaching 350 ppm will require unprecedented international cooperation. The United Nations is negotiating a treaty that could put the world on a course to solve the climate crisis,
but the current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety. 350.org will bring millions of new voices to the table, united by our common call to action. Together, we will redefine the possible and rally the world behind the solutions that science and justice demand.
Join us today.
350 Messengers (May)
We're assembling a team of global messengers for 350.org These individuals help us share 350 to people they know, and also guide us as we continue to grow this global movement. We will keep building this list, and we welcome your suggestions! To nominate a messenger, email may@350.org.
Messengers:
Mathis Wackernagel, founder, Global Footprint Network:
""Humanity's ecological footprint is at an unsafe level. By achieving 350 ppm, we can return to safety."
Van Jones, founder, Green for All:
"Getting to 350 means changing everything about our global economy. It means providing clean-energy jobs to rewire every corner of the world and catalyzing a global transformation built on principles of equity and opportunity."
David Suzuki, founder, David Suzuki Foundation:
"Why 350? We must return to the earth's natural balance!"
Dr. James E. Hansen, climate scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies:
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." (also translated below)
Liz Thompson, UNEP Champion of the Earth award winner, former Environment Minister of Barbados: "As a resident of a Small Island Developing State, I am acutely aware of the dangers of global warming. Some countries are closer to the frontlines of global warming than others, but we are all affected by this global problem, which requires from us a global response. Getting to 350 means saving our planet and ourselves from a disaster of our own creation."
Paul Loeb
The hardest challenge of tackling global climate change is conveying the massive threat that the scientists recognize to the rest of us, going about our daily lives. Project 350 begins to make the crisis concrete.
Our Team (May)
We are a small team of youth from throughout the world who are working together to build a movement to stop global warming. We work with Bill McKibben, an author and environmentalist from the United States, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public. Bill and our U.S. team ran a campaign last year called Step It Up 2007 that organized over 2,000 rallies in all 50 states, which was an inspiration for 350.org. It's our hope that you'll make this current project your very own: we're counting on you to help spread 350 around the world!
Science of 350 (Kelly / Bill)
Die wissenschaftlichen Hintergründe für 350
There are three numbers you need to really understand global warming, none of them very complicated.
Im Zusammenhang mit der globalen Erderwärmung sollten Sie drei Zahlen kennen, damit Sie die Vorgänge besser einschätzen können.
1. Zahl: 275 ppm
For all of human history until about Zahl korrigieren: 200 years ago, our atmosphere contained 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide (that's the first number).
Während der gesamten Entwicklung des modernen Menschen (seit ca 160.000 Jahren)bis vor ungef’hr 200 Jahren betrug die globale CO2-Konzentraton im Mittel 275 ppm (parts per million).
Parts per million simply means the ratio of the number of carbon dioxide molecules to all other molecules in the entire atmosphere. WRONG: Not all molecules, but itäs the number of parts per million of other parts.
Die Einheit “ppm” – parts per million – heisst übersetzt “Teile pro Million”. 1 ppm CO2 bedeutet also, dass sich in einer Million Atmosphäre-Teilchen ein CO2-Teilchen befindet.
That much CO2 is useful—without it the earth would be very cold, like Mars.
Eine Konzentration von ca 275 ppm CO2 ist notwendig, denn ohne CO2 in der Atmosphäre wäre es so kalt, daß Leben auf unserem Planeten nicht möglich ware - so wie es auf dem Mars der Fall ist.
So we need some carbon in the atmosphere; the question is how much? [image of a few CO2 molecules amongst other molecules in earth's atmosphere?]
Wir benötigen also eine bestimmte Konzentration CO2 in der Atmosphäre; die wichtige Frage lautet nun: wie viel ist zu viel?
Beginning in the 18th century, we started to burn coal and gas and oil to produce energy and goods, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere began to rise, at first slowly and now more quickly.
Als wir Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts begannen, fossile Energieträger (Kohle, Erdgas, und Erdöl) zu verbrennen, um Energie und Massenwaren zu produzieren, stieg gleichzeitig auch der CO2-Gehalt der Atmosphäre an. Dieser Anstieg geschah zunächst langsam und schritt dann im Zuge der Industrialisierung immer schneller fort.
Many of the activities we do every day like turn the lights on, cook food, or heat or cool our homes rely on energy sources like coal and oil that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
Viele unserer täglichen Aktivitäten, wie zum Beispiel Licht brennen lassen, Kochen, Heizen, oder Auto fahren, benötigen Energie - Energie die meist aus fossilen Brennstoffen erzeugt wird. Bei der Verbrennung dieser Rohstoffe werden CO2 und andere Treibhausgase freigesetzt.
We're taking millions of years worth of carbon, stored beneath the earth as fossil fuels, and releasing it into the atmosphere.
Dabei verbrennen wir innerhalb von wenigen Jahrzehnten den Kohlenstoff, der seit Jahrmillionen unter der Erde gebunden war – und somit unschädlich für die Atmosphäre - und setzen ihn als CO2 in der Erdatmosphäre frei.
2. Zahl: 387 ppm
By now—and this is the second number—the planet has 387 parts per million CO2 – and is rising by about 2 parts per million every year. [graph from front page with the 3 numbers]
Inzwischen hat die Erdatmosphäre im Monat Mai 2008 eine CO2-Konzentration von 387 ppm erreicht (der Durchschnittswert für das Jahr 2007 betrug 285 ppm). Dies ist die zweite Zahl, die Sie in diesem Zusammenhang wissen sollten. Dieser Wert bleibt leider nicht konstant, sondern steigt um ca 2 ppm pro Jahr weiter an.
Scientists are now saying that's too much – that number is higher than any time seen in the recorded history of our planet WRONG: THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT HIGHER KONZENTRATIONS BEFORE – and we're already beginning to see disastrous impacts on people and places all over the world.
Klimawissenschaftler haben erkannt, daß eine solche Konzentration zu hoch ist; innerhalb der letzten 800.000 Jahre wurde eine solch hohe CO2 Konzentration nicht erreicht. Und wir stellen jetzt schon die katastrophalen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels überall auf unserem Planeten fest.
Glaciers everywhere WRONG – THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS - are melting fast—and they are a source of drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.
Auf der ganzen Welt – abgesehen von einigen wenigen Ausnahmen - schmelzen Gletscher schneller ab als gedacht. Dadurch gehen nicht nur Habitate für hochalpine Pflanzen- und Tierarten verloren, sondern auch die Trinkwasserversorgung für Millionen von Menschen wird dadurch ernsthaft gefährdet.
Mosquitoes, who like a warmer world, are spreading into lots of new places, and bringing malaria and dengue fever with them.
Viele Mückenarten bevorzugen wärmere Temperaturen. Mit zunehmenden Temperaturen breiten sich Mückenarten daher immer weiter in nördliche und höhere Lagen aus – und mit ihnen verbreiten sich auch die Krankheiten, die sie übertragen, wie zum Beispiel Malaria.
Drought is becoming much more common, making food harder to grow in many places. Dürregebiete breiten sich immer weiter aus, wodurch vielerorts landwirtschaftlicher Anbau stark erschwert wird.
Sea levels have begun to rise, and scientists warn that they could go up as much as several meters this century.
Allein durch die zunehmende Erhöhung der Wassertemperatur ist der Meeresspiegel schon um mehrere Dezimeter angestiegen. Durch das zunehmende Schmelzen von alpinen und polaren Gletschern könnte der Meeresspiegelanstieg noch innerhalb dieses Jahrhunderts mehrere Meter betragen. Deutsche Klimatologen gehen davon aus, daß Grönland innerhalb von 300 Jahren vollkommen abschmelzen wird, wenn wir nicht umgehend etwas gegen die globale Klimaerwärmung unternehmen.
If that happens, many of the world's cities, island nations, and farmland will be underwater.
Falls das passieren würde, dann würden viele Küstenregionen überschwemmt werden, einschließlich der Nordseeinseln, Hamburg und vieler Großstädte der Welt.
These impacts are combining to exacerbate conflicts and security issues in already resource-strapped regions. [flash rotating image of climate impacts]
All diese Auswirkungen werden in weniger industrialisierten Ländern besonders stark zu spüren sein. Dadurch werden Konflikte in den heute schon stark benachteiligten Regionen der Welt erhöht, die Ungleichheit zwischen Reich und Arm verstärkt und der Weltfrieden bedroht.
3. Zahl: 350 ppm
In the past year, some of the world's leading climate scientists have told us what the highest safe level of CO2 is: 350 parts per million.
Letztes Jahr haben führende Klimatologen des Weltklimarates uns klar aufgeführt, welche CO2 Konzentration gerade noch tragbar ist: 350 ppm.
That's the last number you need to know, and the most important. It's the safety zone for planet earth.
Diese Zahl müssen Sie kennen, sie ist die Wichtigste von allen. 350 ppm bezeichnet den Sicherheitsbereich unserer Erde.
As James Hansen of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the first scientist to warn about global warming more than two decades ago, wrote recently,
Dr. James Hansen, der Direktor des Goddard Institutes für Weltraumforschung, war der erste amerikanische Wissenschaftler, der schon vor nun fast 20 Jahren vor den Gefahren des Klimawandels warnte. Er schriebim Frühjahr 2008
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."
"Wenn die Menschheit einen Planeten bewohnen möchte, der dem Planeten ähnelt, auf dem sich unsere Zivilisation entwickelt hat, und an den das gesamte Leben unseres Planeten optimal angepaßt ist, dann bezeugen paleoklimatische Daten und die heute schon eintretenden klimatischen Veränderungen eindeutig, daß der heutige CO2 Gehalt der Atmosphäre von 385 auf 350 ppm verringert werden muß. "
That will be a hard task, but not impossible.
Das wird eine sehr schwere Aufgabe sein, aber es ist nicht unmöglich, dieses Ziel zu erreichen.
We need to stop taking that carbon out of the ground and putting it into the air.
Wir müssen aufhören, Kohlenstoff aus der Erde zu befördern und in die Atmosphäre zu entlassen.
Above all, that means we need to stop burning so much coal—and start using solar and wind energy and other such sources of renewable energy –while ensuring the Global South a fair chance to develop.
Das heißt im Klartext, daß wir aufhören müssen, Kohle, Öl und Gas zu verbrennen - stattdessen müssen wir auf erneuerbare Energien wie Wind, Wasser, Sonne, und Geothermie umsteigen. Dabei ist es entscheidend, daß alle Länder der Welt an diesem Umstieg auf erneuerbare Energien teilnehmen und teilnehmen können.
If we do, then the earth will slowly cycle some of that extra carbon out of the atmosphere, and eventually we'll return to a safe level.
Wenn wir das schaffen, dann wird der CO2-Gehalt der Atmosphäre langsam abgebaut, so daß wir schließlich wieder bei einer Konzentration landen, die sicher für unser aller Überleben ist. Dieser Prozess wird Jahrzehnte, wenn nicht Jahrhunderte dauern, da CO2 eine lange Zeit in der Erdatmosphäre verweilt.
By decreasing use of other fossil fuels, and improving agricultural and forestry practices around the world, we could get back to 350 by mid-century.
Indem wir drastisch weniger fossile Treibstoffe verbrennen, und unsere land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Maßnahmen global verbessern, könnten wir bis Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts 350 ppm erreichen.
But the longer we remain in the danger zone—above 350—the more chance that we will see disastrous climate impacts. [Hansen's different 350 trajectories]
Aber je länger wir innerhalb der Gefahrenzone verweilen – also oberhalb von 350 ppm – desto wahrscheinlicher wird es sein, daß wir katastrophale Klimaveränderungen auslösen werden.
Every year since 1992, the United Nations hosts a two-week long conference for world leaders to meet and discuss what to do to about the global threat of climate change.
Seit 1992 treffen sich die Führer der Welt zu einem 2-wöchigen Kongreß, der von der UN organisiert wird. Auf diesem Kongreß wird diskutiert, was gegen den Klimawandel unternommen werden sollte.
In December of 2009, this meeting will be in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Im Dezember 2009 wird dieses Treffen in Kopenhagen stattfinden.
There, delegates, non-governmental organizations, and businesses from every nation will meet to forge a new global climate change agreement.
Bei diesem Treffen werden Vetreter von Parteien, Verbänden, und der Industrie aus der gesamten Welt zusammenkommen, um ein neues globales Klima-Abkommen zu erstellen.
Right now, the numbers in the discussion are 450ppm and 550ppm, which scientists are now saying are far outside of the safe zone, and ensures disaster for our planet's future.
Im Moment werden Ziele von 450 oder 550 ppm diskutiert – das sind Ziele, die uns nicht aus der Gefahrenzone bringen werden; stattdessen garantieren diese Ziele eine globale Klimakatstrophe.
It's no small task, but we need to let our world leaders know that 350 is the safe target that can ensure an equitable future and save us from climate catastrophe. [politicians with 450 and 550 speech bubbles surrounded by citizens holding 350 signs?]
Es wird keine einfache Aufgabe sein, aber es ist unbedingt notwendig, daß wir den Führern unserer Welt erklären, warum 350 unser Ziel sein muß; daß allein 350 sicherstellt, daß wir und unsere Kinder eine sichere Zukunft haben.
With your help, we can spread the word to our fellow citizens, communities, countries, and the world why we need to aim for 350. Join the movement.
Mit Ihrer Hilfe können wir diese Zahl überallhin verbreiten, zu Nachbarn, Gemeinden, Mitbürgern, Ländern, bis in die ganze Welt. Alle müssen wissen, warum 350 unser Ziel sein muß. Bitte helfen Sie uns dabei!
Sources
Quellenhinweise
Lots of people know plenty more than we do about global warming, its impacts, and solutions- below is a short list of resources for basic information on global warming, as well as current information about the latest studies and articles related to climate science, impacts, and policies. If you think we're missing something really important, let us know.
Climate Science and Policy Resources – scientific articles and helpful blogs to fully understand global warming science, policy, and impacts
Hansen, James, et al. Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim? Submitted April 7, 2008. arXiv.org. - NASA scientist James Hansen's paper about the 350ppm target
Hansen, James, et al. Target Atmospheric CO2: Supporting Material. Submitted April 7, 2008. arxiv.org.
The IPCC 4th Assessment Report – link to the latest report by the Nobel-prize winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, supported by the world's leading climatologists.
Baer, Paul, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha. "The Right to Develop in a Climate Constrained World: The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework" - an important policy framework for how to mitigate climate change while ensuring an equitable path to development for the Global South
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - link to the official UNFCCC website with information about the UN climate policy process.
RealClimate: A climate change blog, run by climate scientists.
Recent News Articles – recent articles about the increasing urgency of climate science, and severity of climate impacts
Ban Ki Moon. "A Climate Culprit in Darfur." The Washington Post. June 16, 2007.
German Advisory Council on Global Change. "World in Transition – Climate Change as a Security Risk". January 2008.
Ghosh, Pallab. "Climate Set for Sudden Shifts." February 4, 2008. BBC News. .
Moore-Lappé, Frances. "Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World". February 4, 2008. Earth Policy Institute.
McInnis, Laura. "Climate Change Threatens Human Rights of Millions: UN." February 19, 2008. Reuters.
MacKenzie, Debora. "Melting Glaciers will trigger food shortages". March 20, 2008. NewScientist.com news service.
Pilkington, Ed. "Climate Target is not Radical Enough – Study". April 7, 2008. The Guardian.
Lovell, Jeremy. "Poor Children Main Victims of Climate Change: UN." April 28, 2008. Reuters.
Morris, Nigels. "Climate change could force 1 billion from their homes by 2050" April 30, 2008. The Independent.
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Media Room (Jamie)
Welcome to the 350 Media room. Our latest press releases, images and publications as well as archives of these materials can be found here.
If you are a member of the press and have further questions please contact: jamie@350.org.
Partners (May)
This project relies on the help of our friends and allies who are helping to spread the word about 350 through the work they are doing. We're all building this global movement each day with the actions we take. Some of our partners are global organizations, others work on specific local issues in their communities. All of these contributions are valuable. To become a partner of Project 350, email may@350.org.
Here are some of the many partners we work with to share 350:
Take Action
Action Gallery (Jeremy)
For the world to know this number, for our leaders to take the right course, we need action. Big or small, fun, serious, educational, athletic, artistic, the important thing is to raise your voice and get involved. See what others all over the world are already doing and become a part of it.
Postcards (Kelly/Bill)
Though we strive to keep our campaign up to date with the most cutting edge, open-source, web 2.0 organizing tools, we've decided to start out the 350.org campaign by getting back to basics. So to launch the global open source movement to spread this number, we’ve begun an experimental project to spread the word through one of the oldest forms of communication – the mail. In words, collages, drawings, or any other form on the back of a postcard, we want to hear from people all around the world, why it’s worth it for you, your community, and the rest of the world to aim for 350 parts per million?
Getting to 350 won’t be easy, but is necessary for preserving life as we know it on this planet. Share your reasons for joining this movement with others around the world. We hope that this idea can be a fun, artistic, and educational way for teachers, students, organizers, artists, and anyone else to connect to this global project. Our collective responses will help connect our struggles and serve as inspiration to others to get involved and to keep striving for a brighter future. We'll share your responses on our website, and eventually at the UN climate meetings, when we receive them by electronic or regular mail. Just read the instructions below to get started:
1. Get a postcard. Purchase a postcard or find any roughly mailable material to write on. If needed, cover the back of the postcard with scrap paper to create a clean space to create your response. [image of someone buying a postcard, papering it over]
2. Find materials. Gather any art supplies or recycled material you may want to complete your postcard. Ideas include paint, crayons, markers, glue, leaves, and old newspapers or magazines. [art supplies image]
3. Create your postcard. In words, images, or both, answer the question in one sentence or less, “Why is it worth it for me, my community, and the rest of the world to aim for 350 parts per million?” on the back of the postcard. Remember to include your name and where you're sending it from. [image of a mother and daughter creating postcards together]
4. Send it in. Mail a scanned image or photo to postcards@350.org or attach a stamp and drop it in the mail to 1370 Mission St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103. See your postcard in the global postcard gallery! [image of someone dropping it in a mailbox]
5. Pass it on! Send our e-postcard on to your friends around the world to invite them to participate in the project. [megaphone image]
Check out some of the postcards we've gotten so far for ideas:
(postcard gallery below)
Map (Jeremy)
"Check out the places all over the world where people are taking action for 350."
Teresa
Or, a bit more sass:
"They call it global warming for a reason of course, and so we need a global movement to beat it. Check out the places all over the globe people are taking action with 350."
Share 350
Tell-A-Friend (Will)
To make sure this movement spreads far and wide, please invite everyone you know to join in. Use the form below to email everyone you know, in your home country and afar:
Your Name___________
Your Email___________
Subject: 350 - Because the World Needs to Know
Your Message:
Hello!
You're getting this e-mail because I thought you might want to do something important in the fight against global warming. All around the world communities are taking action to spread the number 350, the safe level of co2 in the atmosphere measured in parts per millions (ppm), and make sure world leaders are on course to reach that target. We're already at 385, so it's urgent that we act together and build a movement that will get the job done and ensure a safe and just future for the world. Please join and help in building this movement.
For information and an invitation from Bill McKibben, head to www.350.org
Thanks!
"Spread the Word"
Or you can copy this text and send a letter or write your own email to tell your friends and contacts around the world
Translate (Will)
Help us translate this website and make the movement open to all. For simple reasons of organizational capacity we are unable to maintain our full online communications in all languages, though we do the best we can to have at least introductory information in as many languages as possible.
If you are able and interested in volunteering time to help with translations for 350.org and our online communications, please email us at translation@350.org.
Print Materials (Phil)
Here you can find printable materials like posters, brochures, stencils and educational sheets available for your use. Feel free to change, add or modify what we have up here to suit your needs. Please e-mail
kelly@350.org with suggestions.
Poster
Flier
Stencil
Education and action guide
Make Stuff (Kelly)
Many think of 350.org not as a campaign, but as a global collaborative art project to spread a specific meme: 350. So let your creativity run wild by making your own art, crafts, and more to spread the word about 350 wherever you go. So far people are making 350.org t-shirts, quilts, paintings, and more – show us what you can come up with to get the word out in your community! Just be sure to share your creations with the rest of the 350 community by uploading a photo of it on our website. Below are a few resources and opportunities to plug into the project.
350 Craft Challenge
350.org has teamed up with Craftster.org, and other crafting organizations to sponsor a couple of contests. Together we’re asking people to create quilts, t-shirts, hats, needlepoint designs, finger puppets, or whatever you can think of that helps spread the number 350 in their community. The submission period will be during the month of August, when participants will be able to enter their creations in the t-shirt design competition or the general craft competition – so get started early! Visit the contest website at craftster.org/350 for more details.
350 Arts
From dancers to painters to designers, artists are finding new and inspiring ways to spread the 350 message. Click here to check out the 350.org art gallery!
Shop 350 (Phil)
You've got a bike, a backpack, coffee mug, and a body to cover. We've got the stickers, mugs, buttons and gear to make you look cool. Check out the 350 shop to spread the word by wearing it. 350.org does not make any money off the sales of 350 merchandise.
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