CLIMATE CHANGE and OTHER ACTIVISM

Wed, Aug 15 10 AM

MARYLANDERS attend the Global Warming Solutions Rally

THE TIME TO COMMIT TO CO2 REDUCTIONS IS NOW!
20% by 2020 and 80% by 2050

Where: Lawyers Mall in Annapolis, MD
At an outdoor square in front of the State House and the Governor's Mansion
More info and rsvp here.
Questions? Contact Claire Douglass Claire@chesapeakeclimate.org or call 301-891-6833.

Wed. Aug 15 - 7:30 to 9:3opm - Greenbelt Climate Action Network (GCAN)
Greenbelt Community Center at 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD
Room 112, Gallery/Senior Conference Room.
TOPICS include: supporting the Maryland Global Warming Solutions Act and the Carbon Neutrality Project Email Steve for info here.

Tues - Sept 4 - So Others Might Eat: The Climate Emergency Fast

On September 4th, give up food for a day,
And Send a powerful message on global warming.

Give up food for one day now to draw attention to the fact that others may have no food tomorrow unless we halt global warming. See list of fasters here - Code Pink, Pax Christi, Colleges, The Hip Hop Causas, Climate Change groups, Rabbis and more.
Sponsored by the US Climate Emergency Council - register here to join the fast.
As the CCAN blog reminds us, global warming is a moral issue.

Sept 14 -16, 2007 - Confronting the Triple Crisis -

Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Global Resource Depletion

IFG Teach-in at Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC

Tickets and Info: 415-561-7650 www.ifg.org
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - tickets are $35 for 3 days!!! See www.ifg.org/events.htm
60 of the best authors/speakers on these topics internationally! INCLUDING: Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Michael Klare, Martin Khor, Richard Heinberg, Winona LaDuke, David Korten, John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, Wolfgang Sachs, Sara Larrain, Meena Raman, Ross Gelbspan, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Frances Moore- Lappe, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Daphne Wysham, Victor Menotti, Atossa Soltani, David Suzuki, Simon Retallack, Jeremy Leggett, Arjun Makhijani, David Pimentel, John Passacantando, Rob Hopkins, Steve Kretzmann, Antony Froggatt, Randy Hayes, Anne Leonard, Megan Quinn, Thomas Princen and 25 more
See flyer here.

Mon Sept. 17 Reel and Meal at the New Deal Café-
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil."
Vegan Meal: 6:30 pm -Optional special, $8. - Movie at 7:00 pm Free, 113 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD 20770 (301) 474-5642

September 22 - Celebrate WORLD CAR-FREE DAY
http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/ and see local planning for a car-free day in DC at http://www.carfreedc.info/

Tuesday Sept 25th, 7 - 8:30PM - Baltimore Climate Action Network Meeting
The Cathedral of the Incarnation (Episcopal Diocesan Center)
4 E. University Parkway - on the NE corner of University Parkway and N. Charles St.; Baltimore, MD 21218. Free parking lot on the grounds. Near the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.
Have some pizza and conspire to save the planet!! www.baltimoreclimate.org

Plan to attend the Green Festival in DC - October 6 & 7, 2007
& Attend a Mini-Conference there - "What's the Economy For, Anyway?" Oct 5-7 (admission includes the Green Festival) - Co-Sponsored by the Simplicity Forum, Co-op America, Take Back Your Time, Center for a New American Dream, Forum on Social Wealth, and MomsRising.org. For details as they become available see: http://www.simplicityforum.org/events.html Register here

Sun Oct. 14, 1:45pm to 5pm - Stepping Up to the Challenge: How Your Congregation can be a Part of the Climate Solution, GWIPL's first annual summit
St. Columba's, 42 01 Albemarle St. NW, Washington, DC 20016
See - http://www.gwipl.org/summit2007.asp rsvp requested

Sun-Tues Oct 21 -23 - No War No Warming - www.nowarnowarming.org/
FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT WARS FOR OIL! - DC mobilization

Sat Oct 27, 9:30- 4 - Gather the Women -Creating Sustainable Communities
Unitarian Universalist Church at 10309 New Hamphsire Ave, Silver Spring, Maryland

Oct 27 9-1 pm Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry in Md At: UUCC Columbia Md, Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045 Info here

EVERY TUES - Radio and TV on Climate Change

• 10 to 11 AM - Earthbeat with Mike Tidewell & Daphne Wisham WFMW 89.3 FM DC www.earthbeatradio.org - listen online at www.wpfw.org/

• 9 - 11:30 pm The Green on The Sundance Channel on TV

In Movie Theatres:
Arctic Tales - in theaters now - very confronting about dangers of Arctic melting.
The Eleventh Hour Leonardo DiCaprio's feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. The Eleventh Hour is the last hour change is possible. Opens 8/24 in DC and 8/31 in Baltimore

For ongoing area climate activism and updates see the Chesapeake Climate Action Network site.

Simplicity Matters Earth Institute (SMEI) calendar is here . SMEI offers discussion and action circles in the MD from Balti to Frederick to Annapolis and DC on voluntary simplicity, globalization, global warming etc.
There will be a number of global warming discussion circles in Howard Co. in the fall of 2007 - for info email nspmaryland@gmail

Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light - www.gwipl.org/ has many great climate change resources and a local calendar here.