350 Climate Change Action Festival- Events for Change
24 October 2009 (All day)
Here is a link to an article in the Elkhart Truth about our event: http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?ID=496488
Saturday the 24th
9am- All trash created by Goshen College in 3 days is amassed in one spot on Campus. Volunteers sort through it and do a trash audit, and make refuse into a 350 sign. [The location for this is behind(east) of the Physical Plant]
12noon- Community Lunch with local food, food will be provided, but people are welcome to bring food as well. Do bring your own dishes if you can.
- Drum Circle
- Face painting
- Opportunites to call/write senators/reps
- Learn about 350
- Connect with local Environmental organizations (Reith Interpretive Center, Ecopax, Goshen Voluntary Gas Tax, Citizens Action Coalition, Chain Reaction, etc.. email alanask@goshen.edu or just show up with info if you want your organization to be involved)
[this will be in the Union Gym East on Goshen Campus ]
1:15pm
- Raffle, must be present to win. prizes include a bike, powerstrips, light bulbs, books, LED headlamp, Diva Cup, more.
-Campus bell will ring 350 times
1:30pm- Bike/walk from all over town to the courthouse with banners, signs and enthusiasm
2pm
At the Courthouse
- Acoustic music
- petitions circling
- Speaker
- Skit
- 350 photo
8pm- Environmental and Social Justice Coffee House in Newcomer 19.
Music, Poerty, etc.... cost $1, includes dessert.
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Earlier events:
Thursday the 22nd-
10-12:30 and 2-4pm- Call and write letters to senators and representatives. Each action gets you a raffle ticket for Fridays raffle.
Location: AD 21 (administration buliding, Goshen College campus)
Friday the 23rd-
1-5pm Call and write letters to senators and representatives. Each action gets you a raffle ticket for Fridays raffle.
Location: AD 21 (administration buliding, Goshen College campus)
4:15pm The Cost of Coal: The Bee Hive Collective
(whose mission statment is to cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.)
http://beehivecollective.blogspot.com/
http://www.beehivecollective.org/
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Understanding 350
- So, what is global warming and what's the problem anyway?
- And what does this 350 number even mean?
- If we're already past 350, are we all doomed?
- How do we create the political change to steer towards 350?
- How do we get the world on track to get to 350?
- How do we actually reduce carbon emissions to get to 350??
- Will this thing work? Will world leaders listen?
- Where did this 350 number come from?
- Isn't America the biggest source of the problem? What about China and India?
- 350 is just a number. Wouldn't "Climate Emergency" or "Clean Energy Now" be a better call to action?
- And what about all the other targets people are aiming for?
- Why October 24th?
- Why another organization--there are already too many things going on!
- Do you measure 350 in CO2 or CO2e?
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