MovingPlanet Earthship: 9/22-25

Welcome to the Moving Planet Earthship. MovingPlanet@Kos is a collaborative action with the Moving Planet team, the Global Campaign for Climate Action, WiserEarth, tcktcktck, the Sierra Club, DeSmogBlog, EcoCity Builders, and Transition US. Together, we are assembling a 'package' of educational and inspirational writing and art, rattling the twitterverse in a cooperative social media campaign, and sharing some of the most innovative and extraordinary 9/24 events. First of all, check out of the photos as they stream in from all over the world! Some Tweets to Remember as Moving Planet Day Without Fossil Fuels Ends ... 350 350 dot org #movingplanet, what a wonderful and joyous day. Hope you'll revel some in the glory. moving-planet.org #xoxo Moving_Planet Moving Planet Tired, sweaty, sore? You've made this day one of the most beautiful planet has ever seen. Thank you, so, so much. billmckibben Bill McKibben Best use for Hummers? Pinatas. #movingplanet 350.org/en/about/blogs… Joshlopezphoto Joshua Lopez Check it! @MovingPlanetNYC photos from yours truly. #MovingPlanet @350 @Moving_Planet on.fb.me/qEdgpp tag 'em up!! Shaun_Daniel Shaun Daniel Beautiful ride over to St Paul today for #MovingPlanet. With so many bikes, it was easy sometimes to forget cars existed. #30daysofbiking The earthship is home base for a 'ezine' of coverage which includes constantly updated links to MovingPlanet@Kos contributors' content; republished content of diaries at Kos on moving planet events and topics related to energy efficiency and climate change; updates of MP events; and a selection of news and articles in other media. Click here for a list view of all diaires with the 'moving planet' tag in extensive Coverage@Kos

Schedule Earthship Thursday Eve Launching MovingPlanet@KOS Friday, September 23 ALL TIMES EST Moving Planet Launch Post 9/22 by boatsie 9 am -11 Enviro Writer: Taking the Reins of the Climate Movement 11-1:  Jill Richardson: A Story of Sheep & The Climate Crisis 1-3 Kelly Rigg, Global Campaign for Climate Action, A Tale of Two Cities 3-5: R. Fox:  Moving the Planet with Just a Bicycle 5-7  Richard Register, Ecocity Builders, Freeways for Bicycles, as in the Old Days 7-11  Franke James, Environmental Artist, What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Million are Frying the Planet? 11-1 Ellinorianne: Moving Planet: Transition is Moving Me Saturday, September 24 ALL TIMES EST 7-9:  B Amer: Moving Planet Bangkok 9-11 Bill Mckibben: Yemen This Morning 11-1: Nicole Gheo, Sierra Club: From India to the Heart of Appalacia 1-3: Ulookarmless: Poems for the Trip 3-5:   Adam Siegel: Killing or Creating The Future: Solar at two ends of the Mall ... 5-7    rb137: Moving Planet: Fossil Fuels Aren't Cheap 7-9: WarrenS: Variations on a Moving Planet Theme: Two LTEs 9-12  citisven: Liveblog SuperHeroes: Report Ins Sunday wrap ups Wrap Ups 12-2: Citisven: San Francisco Moves the Planet (fun photos galore!) 2-4: Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth, A Wiser 350 4-6 Post Carbon Institute, Tom Whipple, The Peak Oil Crisis: The German Army Report TBD: Sophie McGrath, Oxfam East Africa, "The impacts of man-made climate change in Ethiopia"

Best of Moving Planet Stories Saturday, September 24 A wrap up for ENS:  Moving Planet Rallies Prompt Global Climate Action Friday, September 23 Can A Bicycle Save the World? Jamie Henn @ It's Getting Hot in Here Why I’m walking to Walden for Moving Planet Wen Stephenson @ Grist As Individuals, We'll Lose Bill McKibben for SUSTAINABILITY FORUM on What Individuals Can Do @ Policy Innovations Moving Planet Begins Around the World Bill McKibben @ HuffPo

Moving Event Snippets ... Over 5000 in SF Moving the Planet: San Francisco Speaks ... From Sydney, Australia, Blair Palese tweets, "More than 200 on Bondi Beach in Sydney flying kites that said YES PRICE POLLUTION! ...350 Presents: Top events around the World ...  Villagers on the Pacific island of Tonga held a sunrise ceremony at 6:00 AM Saturday morning Tonga time. A local priest blessed the coming day while the village choir sang to welcome the sun over the island ... Mud graffiti in South Africa ... The Maldives publicly previewed their de-carbonization plan Wednesday during "Climate Week NYC " announcing a new mandatory target for the Maldives to generate at least 60% of its electricity from solar power by 2020 (you can comment on the plan here...  over 600 young Egyptians wearing blue clothing flowed into the streets to form “Human Nile,” representing the critical threat global warming poses to water security and their future ... Libyan professors host an free educational rally in a solar field in Tripoli to showcase Libya's need wean itself off fossil fuels ... A giant screen outside UN headquarters in NYC to display Moving Planet events from around the world.

POST EVENT ACTIONS 1. Submit a few top photos and any videos to [e-mail] (with city and country in the subject line) right after your event. 2. Help with social media by following Moving Planet on Twitter and RTing. 3. Tweet info about your event and during your event using hashtag#movingplanet 4. Send a LTE to one or more of your local newspapers about WHY Moving Planet is so so important. (Check out a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/24/1019895/-Variations-on-a-Moving-Planet-Theme:-Two-LTEs">Variations on a Moving Planet Theme: Two LTEs by WarrenS for ideas)