10-10-10 only comes once every thousand years so we need to make it a good one. We can only fantasize what 3010 will look like, given the predictions for 2100 with submerged coastal cities, lack of water, food and water wars, and billions dead from plagues and lack of food and water. But today, we have hope that we can do something to change that future. Today, millions of people all over the world are participating in the Global Work Party, the brainchild of Bill McKibben and company at 350.org. On this day of hope we work, and celebrate the Earth and the people who are working to preserve it as a healthy sustaining place for humans. What are you doing today?

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On 10/10/10, the planet is getting to work on climate change with more than 1600 events in more than 135 countries.

Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar. That’s the date. The place is wherever you live. And the point is to do something that will help deal with global warming in your city or community.

We’re calling it a Global Work Party, with emphasis on both ‘work’ and ‘party’. In Auckland, New Zealand, they’re having a giant bike fix-up day, to get every bicycle in the city back on the road. In the Maldives, they’re putting up solar panels on the President’s office.  In Kampala, Uganda, they’re going to plant thousands of trees, and in Bolivia they’re installing solar stoves for a massive carbon neutral picnic.

Since we’ve already worked hard to call, email, petition, and protest to get politicians to move, and they haven’t moved fast enough,  now it’s time to show that we really do have the tools we need to get serious about the climate crisis.

On 10/10/10 we’ll show that we the people can do this–but we need bold energy policies from our political leaders to do it on a scale that truly matters.  The goal of the day is not to solve the climate crisis one project at a time, but to send a pointed political message: if we can get to work, you can get to work too–on the legislation and the treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run. (From Bill McKibben at 350.org)

You can sign up to host a local event at www.350.org/oct10

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Last night’s Letterman interview a success

Vermonter Bill McKibben from Middlebury College gave David Letterman a short course on climate change last night and according to McKibben, the future doesn’t look pretty. Letterman had apparently read his book, Eaarth, and was well-informed on climate change. There were not any chuckles during the exchange and it the end, Letterman remarked to McKibben, “Thanks for scaring the crap out of me.”

Video: 350.org, youtube

Check out McKibben’s new book, Eaarth here: