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JOIN CAMPAIGN TO MOVE PLANET AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS

Greta Jonyniate | 20.09.11

Moving Planet, the worldwide action day launches on Saturday 24th September. Hundreds of thousands of people in over 150 countries will be calling on their leaders to end our reliance on dirty energy and take immediate steps to shift us towards clean energy. Moving Planet is being coordinated by the international climate campaign, 350.org.

Bill McKibben the founder of 350.org is calling on everyone to take part in Moving Planet to help make a difference and has said “The planet has been stuck for too long with governments doing nothing about the biggest problem we've ever faced: the climate crisis. This is the day when people will get the earth moving, rolling towards the solutions we need.”

There will be 2000 events happening worldwide including Indonesia taking part in 350 hours of cycling, Australia will be flying their “YES to 350” kites and our Brazilian friends will be holding a big parade in São Paulo. Cyclists in Zagreb, Croatia could not wait until Saturday and held a 1,000 person “pedal-off” with the message “Pedala nije sala” (Pedalling is not a joke).
 

Support the Moving Planet campaign in London where two events will be hosted on Saturday 24th September, between 12pm and 3pm. In Haggerston Park hundreds of cyclists will gather together to create London's Biggest Bike in a bid to demonstrate the sensational vision of a zero carbon transport City and in Highbury Fields there will be the Moving Planet Festival hosting an afternoon of fun, food, talks and music to celebrate our place on the planet Speakers include international lawyer and well know Ecocide campaigner, Polly Higgins.

From London to Wales, there are a number of other events happening right across the UK and you can find out more information about these events at http://www.moving-planet.org/map.

With support from Greenpeace International and Oxfam, Moving Planet is bound to be a success and just the beginning in making a worldwide difference to climate change.

 

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Moving Planet is almost here!

Greta Jonyniate | 23.09.11

Moving Planet is almost here! There are just three things you need to know:

1) It's going to be absolutely huge, and you don’t want to miss it -- there will be thousands of events this weekend, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and just about everywhere in between. There will be rallies and marches and teach-ins and protests of all kinds. If you don't know which event is closest to you on Saturday, click here to search the map.

2) It's vitally important. The truth is, we've got lots of work to do to solve the climate crisis: big polluters are doing everything in their power to delay real climate action, and they are spending huge amounts of money to distort the truth and block progress. But this weekend's events can show the world that a vibrant movement is coming to life -- and that people everywhere are ready to do whatever it takes to move the world beyond fossil fuels.

3) It's about to begin! At the easternmost part of the earth, Moving Planet Day is about to dawn. That means there's not much time left to spread the word to all your networks -- on Facebook, on Twitter, and everywhere else.

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