Welcome to EcoAdvocates' 10/10/10 virtual rally, featuring an on-the-road post from Bill McKibben; a report on rural 10/10/10 activities by climate activist and Transition West Marin co-founder Bing Gong; and Chris Eaton's last minute tips on joining Greenpeace & Co's final social media. Visit 350.org's Joe Solomon's pick of 10/10/10 activities around the globe and scroll through artist and author Franke James' inspirational and educational visual essay. |
Take it Away, folks. But not before watching the short 350.org clip above. Just to remind us what we're doing this for!
10/10/10 Mexico Poster
Momentum
by Bill McKibben
I'm typing this on an iPad in a taxiing airplane, sixth flight in two days, spewing carbon. It's that kind of week, I fear, and this communique will be necessarily short. But it exemplifies the kind of momentum gathering as Sunday approaches.
Here's the latest news from the crew at hq, which we will send out as a blast to our list tomorrow: we've now got events, almost 7000 of them, registered in 188 countries. I think we are missing equatorial Guinea and North Korea.
So, the most widespread day of political activity ever. About anything.
And, of course, we have wind in our sails following yesterday's announcement about the commitment to install solar on the White House roof. It's the perfect way to get to work, especially since Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed is actually climbing up on his roof today to do the same thing!
Please, everyone: help us keep the momentum growing. Spread the word. And make sure to look at the pictures at 350.org once the day starts. Those are what your colleagues look like. Everywhere!
Cochabamba Bolivia. Acciones que se comenzaron en Cochabamba Bolivia y continua hasta el 10-10-10. hasta pronto.
10.10.10 West Marin Style: Weaving the fabric of community
By Bing Gong
Downtown Point Reyes Station, Global Day of Action, October, 2009.Photo by Art Rogers
West Marin is several small villages scattered throughout an unincorporated area of Marin County. It has no city council, is mostly rural, dairy farms and ranches, and now host to many small organic farms and the Point Reyes National Seashore, a place of natural beauty. Here numerous small organizations and non-profits have for too long labored in isolated silos, each working on a piece of the social fabric to care for the land and its the people – mainly white Europeans and Latino families who came to the area as farm workers, and now work in all sectors of our economy.
Last year, Transition West Marin put together a successful climate action with 350.org. As we focused this year on 10/10/10 (the date on which 350.org will sponsor over 6,000 community-building events around the world.) we’ll celebrate the power of our diversity by promoting and publicizing work parties for our organizations and non-profits, coming together at the end of the day to celebrate with food, music and speakers. We currently have over a dozen activities from landscaping at our affordable housing to habitat restoration in the park to creating community gardens.
Growing from the 10/10/10 event, we hope West Marin organizations will work to establish a valuable and resilient infrastructure enabling our community to better face the perfect storm of Climate Change, Peak Oil, and the unsustainability of the global industrial civilization that is our future.
Collapse is in the air, so palpable you can smell it, taste it, touch it, feel it – an undercurrent of anxiety, not conscious but confronting us all. The economy – the unemployment, foreclosures, the wars – combine to impoverish us as a nation. We are witnessing the loss of species daily. This year, BP in the Gulf, loss of the Greenland and Antarctic ice masses, famine and drought, food and water crises are massive evidence of coming changes.
As the political process fails to implement solutions, 350.org has awakened many to the notion that solutions must come from the grassroots. After all, what is community? We will not survive alone in this transition. But working together with our neighbors, families and our networks of friends, we can unite in a virtual "barn-raising."
Stay tuned for our pictures at 350.org. And if you're ever out our way, be sure and look us up! We'd love to show you around.
[Bing Gong is a climate activist, living in Point Reyes Station, CA. His radio show is archived at wmpostcarbon.org]
Richmond, VA USA. Richmond families celebrate 10/10/10 with a front porch clothesline awareness campaign.
Hello DailyKos!
by Chris Eaton, Greenpeace USA
It’s four days till October 10th 2010, otherwise known as the 10/10/10 Global Work Party for the climate! That’s just four days to make the Global Work Party a call for climate solutions that nobody on the planet can ignore.
That’s why 350.org, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International, TckTckTck, 1Sky, Rainforest Action Network, the Center for Biological Diversity, The Nature Conservancy, The Alliance for Climate Protection, Repower America, the NRDC and many others are joining together for a massive social media push to recruit for the global work party. Together, we can create a wave of momentum like the internets have never seen.
All you have to do is two simple things:
- Post this message to your organization's Facebook page:
It’s just four days till the 10/10/10 Global Work Party for the climate! On October 10th every corner of the globe, people will be throwing work parties to implement solutions to the climate crisis. From solar panels to community gardens, wind turbines to bike workshops, we'll start to change our world from the bottom up. We have just ten days to make the Global Work Party a call for climate solutions that nobody on the planet can ignore.
Join us for one last gigantic wave of recruitment by inviting 10 friends to this Facebook event!
- Send this as an email to all your coworkers asking them to invite 10 friends to the same group. (This is an effective tactic as our coworkers are often our strongest network!)
It’s just four days till the 10/10/10 Global Work Party for the climate! That’s just four days to make the Global Work Party a call for climate solutions that nobody on the planet can ignore. That’s why 350.org, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International, TckTckTck, 1Sky, Rainforest Action Network, the Center for Biological Diversity, The Nature Conservancy, the NRDC and many others are joining up for one last big online recruitment push.
Can you take 5 minutes to help by inviting 10 friends to this Facebook event?
In addition, blog posts, tweets, anything at all would help build hype for the Global Work Party.
Here's why were choosing this tactic: Back in 2009, Greenpeace, RAN, Chesapeake Climate Action, and a host of smaller groups all recruited for the same Facebook event advertising the Capitol Climate Action on the same day. By doing so we were able to generate 40,000 peer to peer invitations with in 24 hours. Now Facebook Events aren't perfect but they can really be a very effective and empowering digital flyer! If we really make this thing move we can really start building hype and anticipation for the event.
Thanks and happy recruitment!
Kiula Sri Lanka. Its their Future. every drop counts. 10-10-10 Action preparations.
Act NOW!
by Boatsie
Going Viral on the Internets: Check out the latest innovative, educational and inspiring visual essay What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion Are Frying The Planet? by artist, photographer and author Franke James.
Ask global leaders to PutSolarOnIt
Visit 350.org's Joe Solomon's inpsirational selection of 10/10/10 events, including "Putting solar on a homeless shelter in New Mexico (bonus photo), New Zealand students show how to get the job done (including primary students doing a teddy bear swap.), Mexico rocks out for 10/10/10 -- from Veracruz to Tijiana; and in Kenya they're taking a swipe at climate change with a boxing tournament: And this fellow is the ultimate treasure chest!"
Sign up for a 10/10/10 event near you
Print out a banner or follow instructions on how to create your own.
Tweet this story out there (button is at the top), follow 350.org on Twitter & retweet their updates!
Remember, it's not too late to plan your own 10/10/10 event. Even if its just you and your family and friends. Even if it's just you. 10/10/10 IS about connecting with your community, so ride your bike or walk around your town or hook up with a few friends and bring all your laundry into the center of your town and hang it out to dry. Click here for an extensive list of other ideas.
Submit your photos
Be prepared to answer questions from the curious as well as climate sceptics with some basic facts:
There are three numbers you need to really understand global warming, 275, 392, and 350. (read on)
10:10:10 Global Work Party Borneo Poster
UPDATE: 10/7:
Pakistani soldier plants 20,101 trees in one day! Sets new World Record
Let that sink in for a second: Over a period of 18 hours and 40 minutes on September 29th, Muhammed Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) in the Pakistani Army singlehandedly planted 20,101 tree saplings--a new Guinness World Record, set at the pace of over 18 trees a minute. Now that's the spirit! The total would have been higher, but monitoring officials disqualified some 400 saplings on the grounds that they were "poorly planted".
The previous record of 15,170 trees, held by Ken Chaplin from Canada, was set in 2001.
Note: Please head over to WarrenS's Drumming for the Planet diary just published now. It is a thing of beauty!
Photocredits: All photos courtesy of 350.org's photostream, except Pt Reyes Photo by Art Rogers (taken from Transition West Marin website)
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