Ideas For Your 10/10 Work Party
Looking for some ideas for your local work party? We have collected some of our favorites here.
Whatever you choose to do just remember to plan a time for taking an action photo that visibly displays the number 350 and people getting to work. That way, we can stitch together a global mosaic for our leaders and the media, and show them that people all over the world are ready to get to work on climate solutions. This gigantic photo petition will show the world: people everywhere demand leadership on solutions to the climate crisis that will get the world back to 350.
Check out some of last year's best action photos to get inspired
If you're ready to register, you can do so here: http://www.350.org/oct10
The Top 10 Ideas For 10/10/10:
Have ideas to contribute to this list? E-mail them to WorkIdeas@350.org or take a look at our expanded list of ideas.
#1 Organize a Tree Planting
Planting trees is fun, friendly, and a great way to engage the community. And each one you plant will be a little carbon-sequestering machine for years to come. Try to shoot for planting 350 trees or more in one day! Check out this tree-planting guide from our friends at the Green Belt Movement for some tips.
#2 Go Solar
Working on a solar project is a great way to demonstrate the clean energy future right in your community. Whether its installing a solar panel on a local school, building a solar cooker for your community, or putting a solar hot water heater on your house--it is a great way to work with the planet, not against it.
#3 Work on a Community Garden or an Organic Farm
To get to 350, we'll need to rethink the way we produce food on the planet--moving away from industrial agriculture powered by fossil fuels, and towards small-scale, local, organic farming. Think about using your work party as a day to model this new system--maybe you can break ground on a new community garden. Or simply help out harvesting at a local farm. For more info, visit 350.org/foodandfarm

#4 Go For a Ride:
Biking is a great way to get out and be visible in your community. It also demonstrate the need for improved infrastructure for our alternative modes of transportation. Think about setting up a bike repair workshop, or painting bike lanes in your community. Maybe an awareness ride of 350 miles (or kilometers) if you're feeling a bit more ambitious?
#5 Harness the Wind
A local wind project can show that you're serious about building the clean energy economy. Putting up a turbine is a big project though, so you'll want to start planning this one early...
#6 Get Efficient:
Energy Efficiency is often considered "low hanging fruit" when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. It's often easier and cheaper than installing renewable energy, so why not start here? Whether it's installing more efficient LED or CFL lightbulbs in your MPs office, insulating your basement, weatherizing your church or temple, or doing an energy audit on your school, efficiency can help get us on the path to 350 as soon as humanly possible (This is also likely one of the easiest ways to reduce emissions really fast -- like 10% in 2010 as our friends at the 10:10 campaign are helping folks to do).
#7 Start a Transition
Town
The Transition Towns project is designed to equip communities for the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil. By raising awareness of sustainable living and building local resilience in the near future, making your community a "transition town" can provide a solid framework for sustained action at the local level. There is even a whole existing network of communities working as Transition towns that you can connect with to learn what they are doing: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
#8 Faith Work
Connections between the world's diverse religions and the issue of global warming are numerous and strike a strong moral chord. This is a great way to gather people together who already have a community in which they discuss the big questions -- now is the chance to add global warming to the list and harness the network to start working on the solutions.
#9 Trash Clean Up
Sadly, some of our iconic places aren’t as pristine as we’d like. Why not leave the place better than you found it? By recycling the garbage you find, you can ensure that the embedded energy in the products gets reused--instead of decomposing over the years and sending a stready stream of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
#10 Join the 10:10 Campaign
Our friends at 10:10 Global are working an ambitious project: uniting different sectors of society behind the simple idea that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in carbon emissions in a single year, starting in 2010. Their focus is on immediate, practical action--350.org's focus is on uniting local actions for systemic change on a global level. 350.org and 10:10 are working hand in hand in 2010, and we couldn't be happier about the partnerhsip--if you want to get plugged into the 10:10 Global Campaign, just go to 1010global.org
More ways to celebrate the Global Work Party
There are many different ways to take action on 10/10/10—so many that we’ve broken different activities into a few sections:
Short-term Projects
- Participate in a climate solution project already happening in your town or city
- Plant trees
- Pick up trash in your town
- Paint a mural that shows climate solutions
- Invite people to an event at a community garden
- Improve a local park or sidewalk
- Make a building more energy efficient and/or retrofit low-income homes (easy projects: weather-stripping, window-covering)
- Bring all your laundry into the center of town and hang it out to dry
- Decorate cloth grocery bags and give them away to the public
- Host a party for your office carpool
- Set up composting for your home, block, school, business, etc.
- Paint a roof white
- build and install a solar hot water heater
- build a compost system for your block
- Hold a bicycle repair workshop and get bikes back on the road
Longer-term Projects
- Cut your emissions 10% in 2010
- Make your community a Transition Town
- Work with your city or town to create a climate action plan
- Install solar panels on local building
- Put up solar hot water heaters across city roofs
- Put up a wind turbine
- Plant a community garden and host a community potluck there on 10/10
- Implement a recycling program
- Paint bike lanes in your town
- Create more bicycle parking
- Start a solar cooperative in your neighborhood
Public rallies
- Rock out at a solar powered concert
- Organize a bicycle parade around town
- Organize a march calling for climate action
- Plan a clean energy rally and invite your politicians
- Get up on a rooftop that should have solar panels
- Make a model wind-turbine to signify where you’d like a real one to go
- Visit an iconic place you’d like to see protected
- Take over parking spaces to plant gardens
- Celebrate a local green business or host a Carrot Mob
- Do a parade of push mowers
- Hold banners at the airport encouraging people not to fly
- Plan a party on your local bus or public transportation
- Organize a flash-mob to creatively call for climate action
- Form a giant 350 in an iconic location!
Political engagement
- Host a demonstration outside your representatives offices
- Hang banners in a public place
- Organize a big local-foods banquet and have people write post-cards to your elected officials
- Invite a candidate to a clean energy rally
- Demonstrate against dirty energy
- Gather signatures to stop a coal plant or other dirty energy projects near you
Education
- Tour a renewable energy facility
- Host a movie screening
- Organize a presentation on how to green your community
- Present a town or city climate action plan
- Give a talk at your church, mosque, or synagogue
- Hold an open house at your place of work demonstrating how your business is building the new clean energy economy










