1 World, 1 Message

350 - Climate Action

Pictures from around the World
http://ow.ly/wklr  (Flickr)

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Santa Cruz Sentinel today  + pictures

Story about Trial, Sail  Boats, Climate (10/24/09)
http://bit.ly/sentinel1

Sentinel Op-ed Piece (10/24/09)
http://bit.ly/sentinel2

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Today: Sailboats begin at 10 am

March from Wharf at 12:30 pm

Mock Trial at 2 pm

Live Tweeting in Santa Cruz
http://twitter.com/350SantaCruz

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Other links

Santa Cruz Event Summary (10/23/09)
http://bit.ly/oct24  (350.org Santa Cruz )
http://bit.ly/Oct24_2 (last email)


SCC Proclamation
http://bit.ly/Oct24_SCC

Twitter
#350ppm

Facebook (Main 350.org)
http://bit.ly/Zylch

Facebook (350 Santa Cruz)
http://bit.ly/lVgic

Flickr (350 photo stream)
http://ow.ly/wklr

Thank you
Santa Cruz 350 Coalition

Santa Cruz Rally Info (as of 1 pm - Friday)

Santa Cruz Rally Event:  (as of 1 pm - Friday)

1:00-1:50pm       Setup

2:00-2:40(5)pm    People Power Car Trial

2:45-2:55pm       Stage Relocation and Setup 

2:55-3:00pm       Letter from Bill McKibben (need reader)

3:00-3:05pm       Cynthia Reading Proclamation

3:05-3:20pm       Ross Clark

3:20-3:25pm       Mark Stone reading county proclamation 

3:25-3:30pm       Fred Keeley

3:30-3:35pm       Cheryl from Veg Meetup Groups

3:35-3:50pm       Lopa Brunjes from BioChar

3:50-4:00(5)pm    James Barsimantov, a scientist from UCSC

4:05                     Micah will end the Rally with the 'car tow'

4:15-5:00pm       Take down/Clean up

350 Santa Cruz - Less than 24 hours to go!

October 24, 2009 is becoming an historic day!  (See on Twitter, #350ppm)

Thousands of events in 174 countries - all focused on Climate Change (350.org)

Copenhagen in 44 days!

In Santa Cruz, please attend the Saturday events of your choice plus the march (12:30 pm - far end of Wharf) and rally.  Please bring your children, and help make 350 Santa Cruz a NO IMPACT, zero waste day.

Why we need you?  Not all Americans understand the peril.
Thanks to the many, many people who are helping in Santa Cruz and to the 350 Santa Cruz Coalition.

Latest Info

Why 350?  McKibben's Op-ed piece in today's Boston Globe.350.org

350 Santa Cruz: ( http://www.350.org/action-list?country=us&city=Santa+Cruz)
Facebook: 350 Santa Cruz  (http://www.facebook.com/pages/350-Santa-Cruz/144995913483)
Twitter: 350SantaCruz (http://twitter.com/350SantaCruz)

Event List  (confirmed as of 10-23-09)

updates  here: (http://www.350.org/action-list?country=us&city=Santa+Cruz)


Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, 10:00am - 5 pm, all day, http://santacruzmuseums.org/
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History invites everyone to stop by and watch some or all of the film, which will be shown through the day.
(Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, http://santacruzmuseums.org/ 1305 East Cliff Drive)

Hoisting The Sails to 350: An Oceanic Plea for Greenhouse Gas Reduction.  http://www.350.org/node/8842
Three boats will set sail with banners displaying the number 350, between Santa Cruz Harbor and The West Cliff Lighthouse, view from end of Wharf.
(Greg Cotten and a City of Santa Cruz: Climate Action Team.)

350 and Practical Activism at UCSC, 11 am - 5 pm, http://www.350.org/node/8649

March: Wharf To Town Clock, 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm, http://www.350.org/node/8842
(Santa Cruz 350  Coalition Initiative)  Meet at far end of Wharf, bring signs.


350 Peace Flags and Drawings of the Earth, 1 pm, Town Clock, http://www.350.org/node/8842
(Santa Cruz School Children)


Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Through Diet, 2 pm - 4 pm, http://www.350.org/node/8842
(Santa Cruz Vegetarian Meetup) Emphasis on information and food choices.


Mock Trial of Internal Combustion Engine,  2 pm, Town Clock, presiding judge: Hon Fred Keeley, http://www.350.org/node/8842
(People Power)  Features Bill Monning as Bailiff to read charges leveled against defendant, Micah Posner as idealistic pro bono defense attorney.


Main Rally with Speakers, Town Clock, 2pm - 4pm, http://www.350.org/node/8842
(Santa Cruz 350 Collision Initiative) Includes Ross Clark (SC climate czar), Lupa Brunjes (BioCharEnergy.com), Cheryl (Lower Carbon Footprint Through Diet), James Barsimantov (Science & Government Policy; UCSC and EcoShiftConsulting.com) + guests!


Potluck Dinner/Live Music/Presentations, and Movie Event, at Live Oak Grange, http://www.350.org/node/8842
Producer Maria Terezinha Vaz and Director Giovanni
Vaz Del Bello will be showing their environmental film: A
Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitibia, Brazil.
(Transitions Santa Cruz)

Simultaneously, people in every corner of the world will be taking similar action, from climbers with 350 banners high on the melting slopes of Mount Everest to government officials in the Maldive Islands holding an underwater cabinet meeting to demand action on climate change before their nation disappears.

November 1 - 30, 2009
Climate Change Book Exhibit at Santa Cruz Public Library

Press Coverage

SC Weekly
Interview Climatologist Dr. Schneider (http://news.santacruz.com/2009/10/21/interview_with_climatologist_dr._stephen_schneider)

350 Day and Activist Bill McKibben (http://news.santacruz.com/2009/10/20/activist_bill_mckibben_kicks_off_first_annual_350_day_of_action)

GT Weekly  (http://www.goodtimessantacruz.com/santa-cruz-news/santa-cruz-environmental-news/237-a-day-of-action.html)

Earlier   (http://www.goodtimessantacruz.com/santa-cruz-columns-commentary-oped/santa-cruz-editors-note-letters/170-this-weeks-editors-note-a-letters-to-good-times.html)


And watch for the Sentinel!

Oct 24 - Update (as of Oct 15)

"Unity, Awareness, Climate Action in Santa Cruz - Oct 24"

Quite a bit going on here, and in the World, here is Santa Cruz latest information:

Please check regularly:  October 24 Actions | 350.org
We are trying to arrange workshops/lectures in the AM;;  activities for children, too. 

1. Santa Cruz County Proclamation - Oct 24 Climate Action Day
   "... must immediately reduce CO2 to not more than 350 ppm",
   "Copenhagen ... of critical importance to all citizens of the world"
   
   
2. Santa Cruz Events so far . 
   includes mass rally at town clock
   
   
3. Biggest Day of Action the World Has Ever Seen   (Huffington Post)
   
   
   
4. Latest: Santa Cruz Media Advisory
   
   
   
5. Very pleased to announce formation of
   "Santa Cruz 350 Coalition Initiative" to coordinate October 24, 2009 events in Santa Cruz

Please consider having your group join the Coalition, organize an event and be involved in a day of "Unity, Awareness and Climate Action" in Santa Cruz.

Oct 24 - Wonderful PR, Santa Cruz County Proclamation, 350 flags,

Please try to have your organization or community organize an event for October 24.

Here's the latest:

(1) Santa Cruz County has issued official proclamation for Oct 24 - International Climate Action Day.  I hope to put online

(2) We've gotten some wonderful PR:
GT Weekly, Greg Archer's Editor's Note (October 7, 2009)

(misspelled my name to protect the guilty)

(2) Randa Solick is a teacher and has arranged classes at several middle schools  to  draw 350 colorful 'flags' or pictures with short statements from each student about the earth.   Hopefully  a photograph of the 350 will make to Times Square in NY

We'll try to get the 350 'flags' displayed at the County building until Copenhagen Conference (early December)

(3)  If you use twitter, easiest way to see what's going on worldwide for Oct 24 is here: twitter.com, search for #350ppm.
For local events, can check 350.org or facebook or LinkedIn or this blog.


(4) I will try to speak at next Board of Supervisors meeting.  Be nice for them to formally adopt 350ppm and send to President Obama; or even adopt the UK UK 10:10 plan.  I'll also take the Proclamation to County's Commission on the Environment and Capitola's.

(5) Santa Cruz County's Recycling website has a lot of good information, including 10 simple steps you can take.

(6) Here's latest  on the UK's 10:10.    Microsoft, numerous MPs, York, Coventry, Brighton have signed on.

(7) A bit unrelated:  November 13, 2009 is Global Smart Energy Conference in Monterey, organized by Tony Livoti of Santa Cruz.   A smart energy grid in the US (i.e. software embedded) might save as much as 24 mid-sized coal plants.   All those DVDs, microwaves, PCs in 'stand-by mode' add up.   Worldwide it adds up 200+ TeraWatts-hours annually - enough to light up Italy for 1 year.  Smart grids will shut things down when not in use or choose a time of minimum electrical load to wash clothes or recharge batteries.  (Source:  Coming Clean, page 181)

"The Pot is stirred!" - Time to Focus

Sent my last email for awhile:

-A reader wrote that the pot is now stirred;  now it is  time to  focus.  Good advice.
-I'll return to my reading and environmental blog, and allow the many good communities, organizations and leaders in Santa Cruz to run with International Climate Action Day. 

-Unity, Awareness, Climate Action.   See you on Twitter (#350ppm) and Facebook and on the 24th!

-here's the last of it:

Unity, Awareness, Climate Action in SC - October 24, 2009

[If you wish to be removed from this list, please just let me know - apologies.]


Latest Developments (Oct 6)


(Please see all events on 350.org or facebook "350 Santa Cruz"]
please add yours

-4-9pm Potluck & Film about Curitbas, Brazil    and facebook  [More on Curitiba ]

October 24 - Call for Unity, Awareness and Action in Santa Cruz

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 
"International Climate Action Day"

23 Days till October 24

67 Days until Copenhagen


On behalf of our planet, let every citizen and organization of Santa Cruz County join together, for a day of Unity, Awareness and Action.


Like cities and towns across the world, this day can be filled community activities, events, discussions of what we as citizens can do.

Every organization, community, neighborhood, family can hold its own Climate Change activity, from potluck to teach-in to surfing contest to religious service to song festival.  Please leave 2-4 pm open for single unifying event.

Here is more:

• 350 and International Climate Action Day. (Wikipedia)
  
• Is 350 the new 450 When it comes to Capping Carbon Emissions? (NY Times)
  

What you can do?

1. Discuss Climate Change with your community, group, or family
2. Post an event for October 24 at 350.org
3. Sign the UN Petition: Seal the Deal!
4. Stay involved, please use one or more of the following:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/350-Santa-...
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=23463...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/scgreenwatch

What kind of events for October 24?   Here's what's happening in Denver.
It can be anything you like, potlucks, garden walk, religious service, teach-in.

Please keep 2-4 pm open for joint activity.

Local Developments today  October 1, 2009

-RTC meeting, several high school students spoke of need for safer paths to school, such as Rail to Trail;  agree to help with 350.   I also alerted the RTC commission to October 24 and need to check CO2 emissions

-met with Maureen McCarty of State Senator  Joseph Simitian's office.

-met with Rachel Anne Goodman of Assemblyman Bill Monning's office.

-met with and spoke at length with Melodye Serino of County of Santa Cruz Public Works Department Recycling and what we can do together; lots of good things (more to come).

-Allison of Supervisor Coonerty's office is working on Oct 24 resolution (on her day off!  Thank you.)

-People Power/Micah - has a fantastic idea for Oct 24, but I'll let him give it away (good for children, too)