UPCOMING EVENTS
PÉTANQUE FUNDRAISER
Avignon City Committee
Enjoy French wine and food and try your hand at Pétanque, French bocce.
WHEN: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 3-6 p.m.
WHERE: 195 Livingston Street, New Haven
COST: $20
RSVP TO: info@nhsistercities.org, call 203-421-5569, or respond on our Facebook event page
All funds raised will help support an artist exchange between New Haven and France.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION
León City Committee
Join with many others to send a clear message to address climate change. We’ll be creating a huge human “350” on the Green using hundreds of volunteers.
WHEN: October 24, 2009, 3-5 p.m.
WHERE: New Haven Green
COST: FREE!
FOR MORE INFO: Call Chris at 203-562-1607 or e-mail nh@newhavenleon.org. Or visit www.350.org and www.newhavenleon.org/earthathon
For all of human history until about 200 years ago, our atmosphere contained 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide. 350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. The bad news is we’re already past that number—we’re at 390 parts per million, which is why the Arctic is melting, why drought is spreading across the planet, why people are already dying from diseases like dengue fever and malaria occurring in places where they’ve never been seen before.
The good news: that number gives us a target to aim for. When the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen in December 2009 to reach agreement on a new climate treaty, we need them to go farther than they’ve planned to go: we need to make sure they’ll pay attention to the latest science and put forward a plan that gets us back to safety.