International Day of Climate Action in Times Square!

350.org International Day of Climate Action at Times Square

Today on October 24, 2009, 350.org unites the world for The International Day of Climate Action. Considered to be the most widespread day of environmental action in history, over 5,200 events in 181 countries came together to call for a clear solution to the climate crisis: reducing the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere below 350 parts per million.

Even in the rain, people gathered for a rally in Times Square for a call to action on global warming. Displayed on the Times Square billboards were photographs of 350 statement from all over the world.

Bill McKibben makes a 350 statement!

From Bill McKibben founder of 350.org

Campaigns like this don’t “win,” but sometimes they have moments of real success. We’re showing you the current front page of the New York Times, which has a picture from Copemhagen. Roughly the same kind of coverage is happening in the Associated Press, on Google News, at the BBC and CNN, and on and on. This has nothing to do with us, and everything to do with you–with the creativity and passion and sheer energy that you bought to this day, which eventually overwhelmed even the most jaded reporters and editors. It’s an outpouring different than any the world has ever seen.

Our photo at Times Square!

350 International Day of Climate Action in Cebu

350's Photostream!!!

350 International Day of Climate Action in Cebu
Photographer:Vito Selma

350 is the most important number in the world— This number is the safe line for our global climate and a start line for a global movement. On October 24, 2009, the International Day of Climate Action, 350.org brings together 4,000 events in over 170 nations to take action in their community, engage our world's leaders, and build an international movement to solve the climate crisis.

Talented Filipino photographer, Vito Selma, and BRIGHT Academy students from Cebu City, Philippines joined people all over the world to make a 350 statement and take a stand for a safe climate future. This picture will join others to be projected on the big screens in New York's Times Square, and delivered to major media outlets and hundreds of world leaders in the coming weeks.

“The Philippines is a country that is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change,” According to Nasa scientist, Josefino Comiso. The children of Cebu take action for their country and the future.

ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE. October 24, The International Day for Climate Action. GREAT THINGS will happen around the world. Taken at BRIGHT Academy. Thank you, Cheryl Pages-Alba and BRIGHT Academy for supporting this very significant cause. These children are our future! Thank you, Esperanza Garcia, for being a constant inspiration.

-Vito Selma

For media coverage please contact Vito Selma at donvitoselma@yahoo.com

1. Top 10 photos in http://current.com/green/
2. One of the main pics circulating http://www.350.org/
3. On Philippine local newspapers
4. Will be shown to world leaders at UN
5. Shown at Times Square!

photographer: Vito Selma

Underwater Cabinet meeting in the Maldives

Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting for 350

On Saturday, 17 October, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, and his ministers held an official cabinet meeting in an unusual location – underwater. The Maldives government held the first ever official meeting underwater as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to draw global attention to the pressing issue of climate change. To call attention to their country’s plight as a nation already feeling the effects of climate change, ministers gather to ratify a statement calling for rapid greenhouse gas reductions. To communicate, they used hand signals and wrote on slates. The statement will be presented at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this December.

http://www.350.org/maldives

350: MALDIVES CABINET GOES UNDERWATER FOR OFFICIAL MEETING 

THE PRESIDENT OF MALDIVES MEDIA GALLERY