On Friday, October 23, join hundreds of other members of the IC community in a "ghost walk" to observe the International Day of Climate Action. We need 350 students, faculty and staff to dress up in ghost costumes with the bottom dyed blue to symbolize the potentially fatal problem of climate change and the rising sea levels it causes. The "ghost walkers" will assemble to take a picture in the shape of “350”, then conduct a parade around campus.
Ghost costumes can be picked up in the Campus Center starting just before noon. The 350 group picture will be taken in the Fitness Quad at about 12:15PM then, the "ghost walk" parade will proceed through the Campus Center, down the Textor Hall corridor to the Peggy R. Williams Center, where a second photo will be taken around the Ithaca College seal. The parade will return to the Campus Center through the Academic quad.
This "ghost walk" event is one of more than 2,000 rallies in more than 140 nations being coordinated by 350.org to urge world leaders to take fast and effective action on global warming. This is the first global campaign ever organized around a scientific data point: 350 parts per million CO2 is the safe upper limit for the atmosphere according to the latest scientific data.
Founded by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, 350.org is the first large-scale grassroots global campaign against climate change. Its supporters include leading scientists, the governments of 89 countries, and a huge variety of environmental, health, development and religious NGOs. All agree that current atmospheric levels of CO2—390 parts per million—are causing damage to the planet and to its most vulnerable people, and that government action at the Copenhagen climate conference is required to bring the earth’s carbon level swiftly down.
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