A Welcome From Bill McKibben

Submitted by Bill McKibben on 17 June, 2008 - 12:49

Hello friends--

We've spent a few months building this website, and we hope you like it.

We do--we're enormously grateful to the volunteers who have it running in eight languages already, and to the talented people who made the movies, figured out the graphs and charts, coded all the features.

But it really doesn't mean anything unless you now use it to get involved. It's your tool for influencing the international debate, your link to the globe's leaders. If you figure out an action to take in your community, we will help you get publicity for it in your local media. And then we will send your action out everywhere around the world.

The goal: to build an echo chamber so that the number 350 is heard everywhere, with increasing volume. If we do, then the people who make policy will start to pay attention.

Can it be done? Only if you, and all the people you know, get involved. Please join in.

Mark Miletich says... on Aug 10,2008

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I enjoyed your work, "When Words Fail" and would like to offer a few that I use when I try to explain global warming to my children.

"These ARE the good old days!"

You are welcome to them, if you can use them. The sad fact is that they are the truest words ever written.

Mark Miletich
Concord, CA

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