Today, October 24th, was the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. It was an amazing event, with over 5000 actions across the plant. Really, check out the website and look at the pictures because it really was incredible.
My environmental club took to the streets of DC today with 350 CFL light bulbs in laundry bags (think "green Santa Claus") to give out for free. We had done some fundraising to come up with the money to buy these, which ended up only costing less than a dollar per bulb! Pepco is doing an amazing deal where they are giving huge discounts off of CFLs, all the more reason to buy them!
Our route went like this: Adams Morgan - Dupont Circle - U Street - Columbia Heights
We tried to give the bulbs mostly to people who wouldn't buy them on their own- we even gave a bunch out to people in line at Martha's Table. The goal was for people to gain awareness about 350 and climate change, save energy and money, and possibly get more CFLs in the future. Most people seemed really grateful, and many took some convincing that the bulbs were free, no strings attached. Overall it was a successful event, and in six weeks comes the big one: the Copenhagen climate talks, which is going to be pivotal. Hopefully the actions all over the world today that spoke "350" will have a bit of influence on the leaders that have a ton of influence on where we go as a planet in the next fifty years.
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