Is 3/50 The New 350?

Mother Nature Network:

About a year after the launch of McKibben's 350.org, one local retailer in Minneapolis named Cinda Baxter saw an Oprah show which encouraged a moratorium on shopping to help the environment. She realized then she had to create a campaign that reframed the issue of consumerism entirely -- it's not shopping itself that's killing the planet. It's HOW people are shopping.

Read the whole story: Mother Nature Network

Comments

[ReedYoung]

02:06 PM on 01/22/2010

No, there is no "new 350." 350 parts per million is the maximum survivable concentration of atmospheric CO2. Shopping locally is a means to that end, not a replacement for that specific pollution limiting target. And a catchy headline to that effect would have been possible.

3/50: the way to 350?

or something

[MimiK]

09:49 AM on 01/20/2010

Yes, absolutely, 3/50 -- Localization -- is the cure for our global situation.

3/50 is hardly the only movement to promote localization. The global Transition Culture movement takes localization beyond merely buying local to education and training to develop the skills that local communities need to thrive in place.

And keep in mind that nothing scares the oil and energy industries more than a YOUR own wind turbine and solar panels on your house. Spread the energy sources all around and the oil industry loses its hold on us -- and it is a serious hold. You can pay off your college loan. You can pay off your mortgage. But you can never pay off your utility bill. Some call it "fossil fuel feudalism."

Liberate yourself from the utility tyranny and
Go to
www.transitionculture.uk
www.transitionus.ning.com

and start a transition group in your locality, and we, the people all over the world WILL turn the people and planet away from certain catastrophe and toward life.