What have YOU planned for Moving Planet Day ~ 25th September?

Eco activists in Ireland are invited to join their fellow campaigners around the world in taking part in a Moving Planet rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. People all over the world will be attending events on 24th September on foot, bicycle, skateboard and kayak in a united effort to move away from fossil fuels.

Moving PlanetFor too long our leaders have denied and delayed, compromised and caved. That era must come to an end: it’s time to get moving on the climate crisis.

Why not get your church to organise an event and invite the whole community? To register your event and to find out more, see http://www.moving-planet.org/.

This is an opportunity to be part of something huge! We’ll be figuring out the most meaningful ways to make the climate message move, literally. We’ll show that we can use our hands, our feet, and our hearts to spur real change. In many places, people will ride bicycles, one of the few tools used by both affluent and poor people around the world. Other places people will be marching, dancing, running, or kayaking, or skateboarding. Imagine the spectacle: thousands of people encircling national capitals, state houses, city halls. Will YOU join in?

We won’t just be cycling or marching – we’ll also be delivering a strong set of demands that can have real political impact. They’ll differ from one country to the next, of course, because the steps we need to take depend on how much fossil fuel we already use. To make this political impact we need to start building momentum now.

On 24th September we will get to combine our local actions into something very big and very beautiful – and put the powers-that-be on notice that the dirty status quo won’t hold much longer.

Moving Planet is an initiative of the international environmental organisation 350.org, which aims to build a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Its online campaigns, grassroots organising, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organisers in over 188 countries.

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 up of people like you in every corner of the planet.

To hear Bill McKibben of 350.org give an impassioned speech to 10,000 climate leaders in the US, go to http://action.350.org/content_item/powershift-speech.