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Media Day of Climate Action

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Please join us for our International Day of Climate Action event on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Transition Town Media will be at Selene Co-op in Media, PA from 10 AM till 2 PM to show our support for a new climate action treaty.

Next, we’ll head on over to the Media Youth Center. At 2:30 PM-3pm, the Media Borough EAC will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the installation of a 1 Kw solar panel at the Media Youth Center, located on Youth Way (just north of 6th St off Monroe St).

Finally, we’ll tour Dean Sherwin’s LEED certified green home at 3 Cherry Street in Media. The tour is scheduled for 3 PM-4 PM.

Day of Climate Action is an international campaign dedicated to creating an equitable global climate treaty that lowers carbon dioxide below 350 parts per million.

350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide measured in “parts per million” in our atmosphere. For more on the science of 350, visit 350.org/science.

Although current levels are already at 390, if we put a high enough price on carbon so that we stop using so much, while also ensuring poor countries a fair chance to develop, we will be able to reverse course, develop a clean energy economy and prevent serious, long-term damage.

Six weeks from now, governments will be convening in Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to create a new climate treaty. Today’s International Day of Climate Action is the best chance we’ll have to influence the treaty before negotiating positions solidify.

Today communities are gathering at thousands of places around the world from the Taj Mahal to the Great Barrier Reef to draw attention to the need for a dramatic international agreement to reduce carbon emissions and set us on a rapid path to 350.

Over 2000 events have been organized for October 24 in over 150 countries. We are proving to the world that not only is 350 possible, but it is also what people all over the world demand.

Please show your support by joining us on Saturday.

Thanks!
Marion Yaglinski
Transition Town Media

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