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***Breaking***
Right as I was about to hit send on this email, the news came out that efforts to stop the flow of oil are making progress, but that revised estimates indicate that it's the biggest spill in U.S. History.
Now is the time to keep the pressure on, and demand an end to offshore drilling and a breakup with Big Oil. If you haven't signed the petition yet, click here: www.350.org/drilling-ban, and if you have, please spread the link to everyone you know. Thanks!
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Dear Friends,
The last few weeks have been some of the most hectic in the short history of 350.org.
It's been hard to keep up: since the beginning of the month, we've launched brand new campaigns, organized rapid-response rallies, and signed up tens of thousands of new supporters with 350.org.
With all that's been happening--and with all the new people who are just getting acquainted with this movement--we thought it was time to do a bit of a recap. And since we're quite fond of numbers here at 350.org (after all, we did name our entire campaign after one) we figured that the best way to tell the story of our campaign is through a few quick stats.
So here it is: the 350 movement--past, present and future--by the numbers:
98 seconds: The length of our first, wordless video that explains our campaign and launched 350.org into the world. It's now been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
5,281: Events (in 181 countries!) in last year's International Day of Climate Action coordinated by 350.org. It was recently called "the largest ever coordinated global rally of any kind" by Foreign Policy Magazine.
Thousands: News articles--many of them on front pages of everything from The New York Times to Google News--about local 350 actions over the last year.
25,712: Photos in our Flickr account from 350 events around the world. If you looked at each photo for just 3 seconds each, it would take more than 21 hours to view them all. This movement is MASSIVE.
112: Number of Countries that officially endorsed 350ppm (the safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere) during the Copenhagen Climate Talks, thanks in part to the strong support and pressure from civil society.
50 Feet (over 15 meters): Length of the hand-painted banner reading "Obama: This Is Your Crude Awakening" held in front of the White House for a rally and delivery of the BP Oil Spill petition.
284,000: People who signed a combined petition assembled by 350.org and our partners that demands a switch from offshore drilling to clean energy.
113,043: The number of people in the 1 Million Strong Against Offshore Drilling group on Facebook, growing by thousands every single day.
131: Campuses already signed up for the Great Power Race, a clean energy competition for students in India, China, and the U.S. convened by 350.org and launched just one week ago.
Ten: This year's magic number--we've teamed up with the 10:10 campaign (which is devoted to cutting emissions 10% in 2010) to bring you the "Global Work Party" on 10/10/10. Pardon us, that's a lot of tens.
1,000: Number of work parties already registered for 10/10/10--it's shaping up to be a day that will unite thousands of communities around the world with climate solutions that can get the world back to 350. If your town isn't on the map, consider signing up.
392.39: Current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, measured in parts per million. We're trying to get back below 350, so that means it's time for an emergency mobilization.
1: The number of people that it takes to jump-start a movement in your community.
Of all the numbers, that last one is most important. This entire campaign depends on people like you to step up and take action.
If you haven't already gotten involved in the 350 campaign, please do connect with us today--find or start a local event for 10/10/10, join the anti-drilling movement on facebook, or simply spread the word.
So many thanks for all you've already done--and all you will do--to build this movement.
Onwards,
May Boeve for the whole 350.org Team.
P.S. We think these numbers are worth spreading--so we've made it easy to share this list with just a couple of clicks on Facebook and Twitter.
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350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action. By spreading an understanding of the science and a shared vision for a fair policy, we will ensure that the world creates bold and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. 350.org is an independent and not-for-profit project.
What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (ppm), so 350ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM-a "people powered movement" that is made of of people like you in every corner of the planet.
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