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Training the next generation of Climate Change Ambassadors

Posted by Anonymous - 09/08/08, 3:43pm

Youth climate leaders from around the world set sail today from Reykjavik, Iceland to begin a 14-day journey across the Arctic. The educational adventure is part of 350.org partner Cape Farewell's Youth Expedition of 2008, and features 28 youth leaders from every province in Canada and from countries around the world. On board, these young environmental leaders will learn from teachers, scientists, mentors and others about climatology, biogeography, the intersection of art and science, and more as it relates to the changing Arctic environment. Along the way they'll be blogging, making videos, and doing web casts back to their schools and communities at home, so stay tuned! For more information about the expedition, here's the main site, the expedition map, and blog. Bon voyage from the 350 crew!

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Dr. Vandana Shiva on Climate Solutions: Diversify and Decentralize

Posted by May Boeve - 09/04/08, 12:26pm

On Tuesday, our 350.org team in San Francisco had the pleasure of hearing a speech by Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, and activist, well known throughout the world for her work on matters of food, soil, climate change, and water. But to break up those issues takes away from Dr. Shiva's core message: we must solve our great challenges by deriving solutions at their roots. That is why her organization, Navdanya, not only educates people, but also saves indigenous seeds, preserving natural abundance.

Our good friends at the International Forum on Globalization sponsored her talk at a Congregational Church in Berkeley, which also served as a launch event for the U.S. office of Navdanya international. We are pleased to count Dr. Shiva as one of our 350 messengers, and look forward to working with her on the road ahead.

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Stormy Weather

Posted by Bill McKibben - 09/02/08, 10:15am

The world is acting strangely these days. Some of it is entirely unprecedented--both the Northwest and Northeast Passages melted open for the first time last week, making the Arctic ice cap a complete island.

And some of it is depressingly familiar, the kind of story that becomes more and more common as the planet warms. In India, as noted below, massive flooding has cut off millions from nearby cities. And in the northern hemisphere a chain of massive hurricanes--Gustav today, Hanna Friday, Ike and Josephine waiting in the wings--unnerve coastal dwellers.

Our work together at 350.org is about making these tragedies less likely in the future. But since they're happening already, we need to help the victims too. Here's two organizations that work internationally to help tend people affected by what we used to call natural disasters--they could use $35.00, or 350 Euros, or whatever you can spare:

American Red Cross

Direct Relief International

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