People are being called on to use their most powerful skill – their creativity – to convey the urgency of climate change. Your help is needed to communicate in new and exciting ways what the number 350 means for our planet.
Scientists have given us the facts behind climate change, and have told us of the urgent need for bold action. Yet, their message isn’t getting through: culture and politics aren’t moving fast enough.
It’s time to use our creativity to communicate this global problem in a truly international language: Art!
November 20-28 2010 – the week before the next round of international UN climate talks where negotiators will meet to work towards a global climate treaty.
Everywhere! Because art can be made anywhere. It can even be made to be visible from space! In 20 specific locations throughout the world, amazing artists are collaborating with local communities to create large-scale art pieces which will be photographed by satellite and shared with the world on the eve of the next round of UN climate talks. But we know there are more than 20 creative folks out there. . .
You and your community. We are inviting you to use this day to communicate the threat of climate change on a global scale, but also to show how your local community is – and will be – affected. It is time for people to do more than just know about climate change, it’s time to help people feel what it actually means for their family and their community. It is time to start reaching people on the emotional level. This is also our opportunity to show the world how good a 350 planet could be. How do you communicate what climate change means to you?
You are asked to somehow incorporate the critical number 350 into your art. 350 is the number scientists are calling “the most important number on the planet.” 350 is the safe upper limit of parts per million of CO2 in our atmosphere that we need to maintain if, as NASA’s James Hansen explained: “We want a planet similar to the one on which civilisation developed, and to which life is adapted.”