What’s 350.org? | BLUE PLANET ALMANAC™

Posted by: Michael D. Austin | October 24, 2009

What’s 350.org?

- The Woodland Hills band of the 350 tribe -

- The Woodland Hills band of the 350 tribe -

As did tens of thousands of people around the Earth, in 181 countries and at least eight languages, at 5,200 events – today I laid on grass in a park with 67 others, enumerating “350.”

Would you like to know what 350 means? See our little band’s link at the 350 organization’s Website.

Tanya Peel of All Green Things in Woodland Hills, California organized us. Thanks, Tanya and thanks to photographer Jim Brammer!

Shade's a good thing.

Shade's a good thing.

Posted in climate change & RECOVERY, consciousness, conservation, green, science, sustainability, you GOTTA go! | Tags: 350 ppm, 350.org, aerial photo, All Green Things, Bill McKibben, Tanya Peel, Woodland Hills

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