350 General

Family energy audit. Take your carbon footprint audit. Find out how your family stacks up and what you can do to lower your carbon footprint.

CLICK HERE to Get  Your Carbon footprint questions

Student Carbon Footprint Reduction Contest This is an event for the students at local high schools and colleges to make up their own top ten lists of carbon footprint reduction activities.  Please send them to info@sagvalss.org.

Carbon Reduction and Student March Planning Session

The May 14, 2011 Student Clean Energy March was born when 16 students from seven local school decided to hold a second Students March for Clean Energy after they completed the first march and 350 Picture in Bay City, MI on May 16, 2010. Join us at 1:30PM at the Brewtopia Coffee House in Bay City, MI to discuss the planning for the 2011 Student Clean Energy March on May 14, 2011.

And there are also two activities planned for 10/10/10 in the Flint area:

Bike Ride to for Climate Change

10th of October (10/10/10) get on a bike and ride through downtown Flint – Part of the 350.org Global Work Party campaign. For info see:

Get on your bike and fight climate change !

Helpful Almost Free Film

A Film Screening will also take place in Flint on (10/10/10).  The Age of Stupid stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?  Details at:

Join the Film Screening on Sunday!

Past 350 activity follows:

Saginaw River Basin 350 Festival

What and Why. The Festival on 10/24/2009 was the culmination of a month long series of events that  promoted a better understanding of the science associated with the climate changes that are taking place as a result of the increased amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.   This will continue as a focus of education since this is the crux of the matter.

First. The most widespread activity will be of individuals educating themselves about the causes of climate disruption from materials in books and on websites. The increase of Carbon Dioxide and other green house gases in the atmosphere is a major cause of  climate changes.  Leading scientists say that the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million (ppm).

Second. Citizens will continue to ask their City and County Commissioners to pass proclamations that support legislation which will roll back CO2 to 350 parts per million. This will engage the public in discussion that will lead to greater awareness about climate science and the problems of green house gases.

Third. Colleges and schools are asked to continue the discussion of climate science and energy public policy in the appropriate curricula. See http://www.350.org/people/schools

Fourth.  Individuals will ask their informal groups, service clubs and church groups to consider the issues of energy and climate change.

Fifth and Last.  All of the above actions are to encourage a large number of people to show their concern.  The hope is that this will show our elected leaders that we want Congress to deal effectively with the Energy and Climate Issue.  This will allow the USA  to positively affect the 2009  Copenhagen Climate Conference and help it chart a course for the successful limitation of CO2 to under 350ppm.

www.350.org