Vigil in Peterborough

Peterborough's community candllight climate change vigil is on:

Friday, December 11, from 5:30-6:15 p.m. in Confederation Square (in front of City Hall)

Please come — and bring candles, your family and friends, and your determined hopes for decisive action by world leaders at this week's Copenhagen summit on climate change. Bring warm clothes, a camera, and — if you can — a sign or message representing the number 350.

Why 350? It's been called "the most important number in the world." It represents what we need to do. Our vigil is part of the global 350.org campaign — one of thousands of community gatherings in every part of the world this weekend, calling on leaders to negotiate a fair, binding, science-based treaty that allows C02 levels in the atmosphere to return to no more than 350 parts per million — the best current estimate of the level we will safely survive.

Our vigil will include inspiring words, a few songs, and a lighting of candles of commitment and hope.

Please send this invitation on, today, to everyone you think could be interested. The vigil is growing largely by word-of-mouth.

Ben Wolfe
(for the vigil's volunteer organizers)