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nytimes.com - 10/25/2009

Campaign Against Emissions Picks Number

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Kathleen Jordan, of New York, left, and others participate in an International Day of Climate Action rally on Saturday in New York's Times Square. More Photos >

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Bill McKibben’s wrap up of the more than 4300 (!) demonstrations for 350 ppm around the planet
Climate Progress — The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. We’re sitting here in our temporary offices in lower Manhattan hunched over laptops drowning in images—15,000 photos and thousands of minutes of video have arrived from what turned out to be 5,200 rallies, protests, and demonstrations in 181 countries around the world. It was, according to any number of journalistic accounts, “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” But here’s the thing that impresses us. There wasn’t a rock star or a movie star or a charismatic politician in sight.  It was ordinary ...

Bill McKibben's wrap up of the more than 4300 demonstrations for 350 ppm around the planet
Worldchanging: Bright Green — news-mosaic.jpg The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org , Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. We’re sitting here in our temporary offices in lower Manhattan hunched over laptops drowning in images—15,000 photos and thousands of minutes of video have arrived from what turned out to be 5,200 rallies, protests, and demonstrations in 181 countries around the world. It was, according to any number of journalistic accounts, “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” But here’s the thing that impresses us. There wasn’t a rock star or a movie star or a charismatic politician in sight. It was ordinary citizens and scientists coming ...