Actively responding to global climate change

Below you'll find an alert from www.avaaz.org about actions that they're coordinating leading up to the world summit on global warming.   This particular alert has to do with fundraising - I included it because the global response is so clear and encouraging.  Please feel free to pass the alert along - and especially to sign up through the main website to be involved in the actions in whatever way(s) work for you.


Thank you!


peace and blessings -


Sylvia




Dear friends,

Over 100,000 of us from 182 countries voted in the Avaaz global poll last week - and the results were nothing short of stunning! 96% of people said, YES, let's go all out on climate this month and commit to a "global wake-up call" to world leaders on September 21st.

With our ambition now sky high, our collective challenge is to fund what could be the largest coordinated global climate event ever -- and in a way that lives up to our global mandate.

We have just days left. If together we can raise $150,000 by Monday, Avaaz can commit to the project big time: building a world map and twitter-like blog that links all the September 21 climate events together; establishing a global phone database so that thousands of us can flood leaders with calls; and hiring top professionals to help us win the media battle with the mighty coal and oil industries.

If 5000 of us donate even a small amount, we'll give our leaders a deafening climate wake-up call they can't ignore:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/fund_the_wake_up_call/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

The climate crisis is a massive challenge, but our global vote has shown that the Avaaz community is up for the fight. Now we have the mandate, let's pull together to organise thousands of wake-up events in public places all over the world in the knowledge that together we have the financial resources to make leaders sit up and listen.

When Presidents and Prime Ministers gather at the UN on September 22, we have to show a massive public demand for them to sign a fair and binding deal in Copenhagen. Thousands of simultaneous events will give us a unique chance to seize the attention of world media and of leaders everywhere - but we need to know we can make it BIG! Donate now to turn our mandate into tangible climate action on the streets all over the world:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/fund_the_wake_up_call/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

World leaders are already hearing our voices - now they need to know that they have no choice but to agree to a global climate treaty in Copenhagen in December. We have the team signed up. Let's pitch in together so we can pull off a global wake-up call that can't be ignored.

With hope,

Brett, Paula, Ricken, Iain, Taren, Ben, Graziela, Luis, Alice J, Pascal, Benjamin, Alice W, Milena, Raluca, Julius, Margaret, Veronique, Chris -- and the whole Avaaz.org team