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Reminder: climate rally, Washington, Feb. 17

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:46 GMT

If you're anywhere near Washington, this is a good (read: meaningful) thing to do on February 17.

Why? Because numbers matter. Both in the sense elaborated here, and in the sense of "crowds".

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Something for Americans to do ;-)

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:53:14 GMT

Obama talked about climate change in his second inaugural address - and quite forcefully, too. This is good.

But it’s not enough. To make him act on his words, people - Americans, primarily - now need to show their support of climate action in any way they can - write letters, call the White House, get out in the streets. True change rarely happens without a groundswell of public support.

If you’re anywhere near Washington DC (or can travel there), you should definitely join the Forward On Climate Rally on February 17 there.

Yeah, I know - travelling to a climate change event, isn’t that a bit counter-productive? Well, there are still situations in which it’s really important for a movement to be visible as more than just a list of names on an online petition. So I’d say, travel to this if you can.

Further actions you can take to show your support:

- Call the White House at 202-456-1111
- Use the “Contact us” form at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ to leave a comment.
- Write a letter: B. Obama, The WH, 1600 PA Ave, WDC 20500
- Ask Obama to give a “State of the Climate” address: https://www.facebook.com/climateaddress

Suggestions compiled from this comments thread.

(If you’re not American, your voice will matter less in this, I think. I’m still gonna leave a message at whitehouse.gov, even though I’m from Europe, but I think it won’t count as much as an actual voter’s. So, this post is mostly addressed at the Americans here on LJ/Dreamwidth.)

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One more for the "faster than expected" files

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:37:37 GMT

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/24/451239/manmade-climate-change-accelerated-in-2001-2010-world-meteorological-organization-reports/

What to do, what to do... where's the damn movement gone? I don't have the energy (nor the skills) to start organising my own! But there doesn't seem to be anything going on at the moment with which I could just tag along. No GP group either, where I live (and anyway, even they kind of aren't focusing on this at the moment, from what I can see - at least not in Germany). No Transition Town initiative here, either.

Need to do a thorough web search, I guess. There have to be pockets of activism, somewhere.

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