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The Rio Earth Summit hangs in the balance.

Right now, the draft agreeement is weak: it lacks deadlines and committments to do anything significant on climate change or fossil fuel subsidies. But Secretary Clinton is about to give a major speech that could change the direction of the summit—let’s make sure she gets our message before she takes the stage.

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Dear friends,

We know we’ve been asking a lot of you lately, but a proposal to end fossil fuel subsidies is hanging in the balance here at the Rio Earth Summit—and your voice could make a big impact in the next 48 hours.

Right now, oil exporters like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia have succeeded in pushing forward a weak draft agreement that would do nothing to cut polluter handouts, which almost come to $1 trillion dollars. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is arriving in Rio today and has the power to improve the text by adding a clear deadline to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2015.

Thanks to Monday’s TwitterStorm, we now have the Obama Administration on the record supporting our call to action for Rio+20—the White House and top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi all tweeted their commitment to #endfossilfuelsubsidies.

Now, we need to hold them accountable to that commitment and turn their tweets into action.

Secretary Clinton is giving a big speech to Rio+20 on Friday—and we need to send her a message before she does. Sign on here: www.350.org/clinton-in-rio

In the last week, over a million people have signed petitions calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies, and on Monday, our ‘Twitterstorm’ generated over 100,000 tweets to make this the top trending issue worldwide. Thanks to your tweeting, signing, and posting, we harnessed the power of the web and cut through the noise in Rio—and have made it clear to world leaders that ending fossil fuel subsidies has a clear public mandate.

Now it’s up to Secretary Clinton to put her skills to work improving the Rio+20 deal. Once she enters the conference center at Rio, she’ll be cut off from the outside world and mostly immune to public pressure. But if enough of us sign on to this petition in the next 24 hours, our team here on the ground can get your signatures directly to the US negotiating team before Clinton’s big speech: www.350.org/clinton-in-rio

Make no mistake, the fossil fuel industry and their allies have already succeeded in mostly wrecking the Rio process—these meetings won’t come close to achieving the transformative agreements we need to save our environment and support sustainable development. But there’s still time to stick it to these corporate criminals and stop our money from funding their climate destruction.

When President Bush came to the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 he told the world that “the US way of life is not up for negotiation.” We know Secretary Clinton can do better. When she speaks to the summit this Friday, let’s make sure she says, “end fossil fuel subsidies!”

Many thanks,

Jamie, Bill, Juan, Juliana, Paula and the 350 team at Rio+20

P.S. Monday’s TwitterStorm to #EndFossilFuelSubsidies was incredible—and it really made a difference here at the Rio Earth Summit. Click here to check out the storm’s highlights: www.endfossilfuelsubsidies.org/twitterstorm/story

More Links and Info:

1. An update on the proposal to end fossil fuel subsidies at the Rio Earth Summit: go.350.org/PunnLS

2. The Guardian reports on the success of the twitterstorm: www.gu.com/p/38d6a

3. Reuters reports on the weak text now being negotiated in Rio: www.reut.rs/M1nei2

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Dear friends,

We crunched the numbers, and there are now over one million people around the world who are calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies!

One million. It’s an incredible milestone—and the timing couldn’t be better. In just a few day, world leaders will converge in Brazil for the “Rio Earth Summit.” The gathering is being billed as a landmark event for the planet’s future, and the theme of the conference is “building the global green economy.” Well, we can’t think of a better way to build the green economy than ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in renewable energy instead.

So we’ll be using the Rio Summit as a way to jump-start the next phase of our campaign on fossil fuel subsidies—and we’ll be harnessing the power of the web to ramp up the pressure on world leaders in a brand new way.

On Monday, we are going to unleash a 24-hour social media storm—an online push united by one single message: #EndFossilFuelSubsidies.

Click here to join the 350 Social Media Team and help make our message unignorable: www.350.org/social

Joining the social media team shouldn’t be intimidating—it just means that as Rio approaches, we’ll send you a few updates with messages to spread online, mainly on Twitter and Facebook. If we can get 10,000 people to join in, we’ll have built up a digital army around the world who can break through the noise.

Now, before any of you who don’t use social media (especially Twitter) feel like we won’t be including you in the fun, we want you to know two things:

1) It’s totally OK if social media isn’t your thing—there’s lots of offline activism ahead for the climate movement, and 350 activists in Rio and around the world are doing incredible work offline to complement this digital push.

2) If you’ve been interested in exploring how to harness the power of social media for social change, this is your moment to dive in. We’ll offer a “social media bootcamp” with guides and tools to make it super-easy for folks who are new to all this.

Ultimately, 350.org is about building a grassroots movement grounded in communities—doing real-world organizing, not just online petition signing and Facebook-posting and Twitter sharing. But the web offers us incredible ways to take messages from people in our global network, amplify them, and then channel them to world leaders and the media.

So, as world leaders converge - first in Mexico for the G20 meeting, then in Brazil for the Rio Earth Summit - we think it’s time to take this online push a step even further. We’ll also be taking your online messages and displaying them offline for the world to see. In major cities around the globe, local teams are setting up projectors that will beam your tweets right onto global landmarks.

We have a whole crew of partner organizations ready to do this Twitter Storm with us—from the incredible global network of Avaaz (who did AMAZING work in helping us smash the million-person milestone for the petition) to grassroots groups around the world. Together, our collective reach is pretty massive.

We’ve never done anything quite like this before, and it’s a bit of an experiment for us. We do know one thing: it won’t work without people around the world stepping up to take part.

Learn more about the #EndFossilFuelSubsidies Twitter Storm here, and sign up to join the 350 Social Media Team Today: www.350.org/social

Let’s do this,

Will Bates for the 350.org Team (@Will350 on Twitter)

Will you help conduct a citizen-powered experiment in grassroots activism?

We can’t pressure Congress on fossil fuel subsidies if we don’t know where they stand, so we’re enlisting the 350 community to help conduct a nation-wide survey. Our new scoreboard tool makes it easy to get your representative on the record.

www.350.org/scoreboard

Dear Friends,

Today we’re launching an experiment: a citizen-powered survey to get every member of Congress on the record on fossil fuel subsidies.

Together, we’re asking our elected representatives a simple question, “Do you support ending subsidies to the fossil fuel industry?” We just put the finishing touches on a cool new online scoreboard that will make it easy for you to find your member of Congress, contact them directly through the website, read through a call script, and record their answer. You can also see the amount of money your politician has taken from the fossil fuel industry listed right next to their name.

Click here to check out the Subsidies Scoreboard and contact your members of Congress: www.EndFossilFuelSubsidies.org/scoreboard

Politicians like to waffle on questions like this - you’ve probably heard the “I’ll get back to you” line before - so we’re going to give every member of Congress a firm deadline to give us an answer on June 19th, two weeks from today. When you make your phone call today, be sure to let the representative on the other end know that you expect their response within the next two weeks.

During those two weeks, we’ll keep applying pressure. In two weeks, our Subsidies Scoreboard will give us our key target list for the next phase of this campaign: turning up the heat on politicians who are working for Big Polluters instead of the American people.

Can you take a couple minutes right now to help start this effort with a flood of phone calls into Congress? Click here to get started.

Normally, this kind of work is done by armies of lobbyists—and most of those lobbyists don’t work for the good guys. During the last two years, the fossil fuel industry spent almost $350 million lobbying the current Congress. And you can understand why: for every dollar the industry spent, they got nearly $59 back in handouts and subsidies. That’s a 5800% return. Even Bernie Madoff only promised 10.5%.

We don’t have the fossil fuel industry’s cash, so we’re finding other currencies to work in. Thanks to your support, over a million people around the world have now signed onto petitions, started by 350.org and our partners, to end fossil fuel subsidies. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have signed on to support a groundbreaking new bill introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Keith Ellison. The “End Polluter Welfare Act” would cut $113 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry over the next ten years—but it won’t pass unless Congress feels the heat.

That’s $113 billion that could be invested in a clean energy economy. Money that could be used to create jobs, improve public health, or in our failing public schools. Instead, it’s going to corporate polluters—the richest companies on earth who are super-heating our planet.

That’s a problem for our climate and a problem for our democracy. And it’s a problem we can fix, but only if we work together.

Let’s make our voices heard today: www.EndFossilFuelSubsidies.org/scoreboard

Onwards,

Jamie

P.S. Developing new tools like the subsidies scoreboard we’re unveiling today takes money. After you’ve made a phone call, if you’d like to make a donation to help increase 350.org’s ability to take on the fossil fuel industry, you can donate here: 350.org/subsidies-donate

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One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out | The Price of Oil – go.350.org/Ljb542

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Dear Friends,

I haven’t written you about the Keystone Pipeline for several weeks, because I haven’t known quite what to say. But many things are moving, and here’s how the situation seems to me right now:

1) TransCanada, as expected, re-applied for a permit last week from the State Department, and just as they said last November — State said they would have an answer sometime in 2013. An open question is whether or not the State Department will do a real review, and aggressively investigate the climate implications of tar sands oil, which they punted on last time.

Another open question, of course, is whether after the election the President - whomever it may be - could just give the pipeline a green light no matter what. It’s important that between now and then we strenuously and continually emphasize that building this pipeline means more tar sands oil burned, and that the climate change implications of that are unacceptable.

2) The fossil fuel lobby in Congress keeps trying to approve the pipeline without any review at all. John Boehner et. al. said they won’t approve the new transportation bill without Keystone in it; happily, the Senate conferees, led by California’s Barbara Boxer, have pledged not to put the pipeline back in play just to get a bill. (We’re always a bit wary of Washington pledges, but thanks to the 1,800 folks who called her office to let her know there was real support for her position).

3) We also found out that the climate-denying, union-busting, radical billionaire Koch Brothers will be among the prime beneficiaries of the pipeline. It was revealed by intrepid investigative reporting that Koch Industries has been masking their investments in the tar sands, while pumping millions into efforts to push this and other pipelines. None of us deny that some union jobs would be created by this pipeline, but it’s now clear that many more will be put under attack as Koch money pours into the coffers of the radicals seeking to destroy both unions and our climate.

We frankly don’t yet know how this all is going to play out—and it’s frustrating as hell. Leaders in the Senate and the White House have given assurances that they won’t OK the pipeline—the administration even issued a veto threat over the transportation bill if it included Keystone. We’ll see how good those assurances are in the coming weeks, and we’ll let you know if there are politician’s offices we need you to call, email, or occupy.

Of course the Southern leg of the pipeline is already on its way to being built – something our friends in Texas are doing all they can to fight, even as you read this.

Meanwhile, science marches on. Dr. James Hansen reiterated the case against tar sands in the New York Times last week, pointing out that the deposits contain “twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history.” If we burn them on top of all the coal and oil and gas we’re already using, “concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era” – a wildly different and likely unlivable earth.

And politics marches on too. We’re coming to think that it’s at least as important to tackle the fossil fuel industry directly as they try to tackle our win on the Keystone pipeline. Last Thursday Thursday Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would strip $113 billion in subsidies from coal, gas, and oil companies over the next decade. That’s enough money to weatherize more than half the single family and mobile homes in America. We hope you’ll help: www.350.org/subsidies

I don’t know how Keystone is going to come out—but whatever happens, the organizing we manage to do together will have a lot to do with the final result. We’ve learned an awful lot together about how to take on the bad guys. We’ll fight them pipeline by coal mine by fracking well— and surely call on you for more rapid-response actions when the need arises — but we’ve also got to go after the core of their power. That’s what we need to make the next year all about.

Thanks,

—Bill

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Dear friends,

Good news this time.

At some point every one of us at 350 has thought to ourselves a little despairingly: is the world ever going to catch on to climate change? Today is one of those days when it feels like it just might happen.

A story on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times described a new poll—Americans in record numbers are understanding that the planet is warming because they’re seeing the “freaky” weather that comes with climate change.

And the story ends by describing the next step in this process: May 5, the giant Connect the Dots day that people are joining all around the globe: www.ClimateDots.org

When the zeitgeist conspires to help our efforts, we need to make the most of it. Two weeks is plenty of time to organize a beautiful photo for May 5, one that will help spread this idea. Are you in a place where flood and rain have caused havoc? Ten people with umbrellas can make a memorable “climate dot” for all the world to see. You’ll think of something appropriate for your place—and you can find lots of examples and ideas here.

This movement is growing quickly, and with not a moment to spare—new data from scientists like Jim Hansen at NASA shows that our carbon emissions have already made extreme weather many times more likely. We can’t take back the carbon we’ve already poured into the atmosphere, but if we work together hard and fast then we can keep it from getting steadily worse.

Earth Day is coming up this weekend, and there will be thousands of events across the US. Each one of them is a great place to spread the word about the big day of action on 5/5. When you’re on the front page of the Times it’s a sign that the message is starting to get through—but only one American in 300 reads that newspaper. Now it’s up to all of us to make sure that everyone around the world gets the message, and Connect the Dots day on 5/5 is our best chance to do that. Please join us.

Onwards,

Bill McKibben for 350.org

P.S. It is key to remember that these photos from May 5 are not just for their effect on that day. We need a bank of images showing the human face of global warming—pictures we’ll use for the hard and direct political work of the next few years. If people don’t know there’s a problem, they won’t try to solve it. So let’s show them on 5/5. Here’s a heartbreaking example, from some local activists in Texas:

ARTICLES & INFO

Poll: Americans are Connecting the Dots (New York Times Article) | go.350.org/IyR9Lr
March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1, Scientists Say Global Warming Loaded The Dice | ThinkProgress go.350.org/HRdwLb

Hey all,

The U.S. Climate movement is doing big things.

In Congress, the fight against fossil fuel subsidies is reaching a full boil, even as we defend our victory against Keystone XL. We’re connecting the dots between the extreme weather sweeping the country and climate change. And if that wasn’t enough, natural gas fracking and other extreme energy projects seem to be popping up in communities everywhere.

I have a lot of faith in our ability to accomplish great things together, but if we want to tackle everything that’s on our plate, our movement needs to get bigger, bolder, and more collaborative. This April, we have a chance to expand the skills we need to win as part of a project called the 99% Spring. 350.org has joined this huge effort that is bringing together over 60 organizations from labor unions to environmentalists, to domestic workers, immigrant rights groups, and the peace movement—all to train 100,000 people in Nonviolent Direct Action tactics and strategy.

On the week of April 9th to 14th, trainings in the proud history of nonviolent action will be held from coast-to-coast. It’s not just a chance to get skilled up, but also a chance to collaborate to grow our movement in all the ways we need to win.

Can you join us and be a part of this historic event? Click here to find a training near you.

(There’s nearly 700 trainings happening in all 50 states, in just about every major city – oh yeah, and they’re free!)

The trainings will include strategies to address the climate crisis, but it won’t be the only focus – we’ll also have an opportunity to learn from other dynamic movements who are working against all forms of injustice and inequality that are trashing our communities and planet.

I’ve had the privilege of helping coordinate lots of large-scale trainings before, including the two weeks of trainings each night before our Keystone XL White House sit-ins, but this project is on a scale we’ve never attempted. Helping develop the curriculum for 99% Spring has been exciting and challenging and I’m looking forward to sharing it with everyone this spring.

One thing you should know about these events: No protest experience is needed! This is the training where you can bring your grandchild or grandparent (and everyone in between).

I hope as many of us as possible can seize this opportunity to make our movement bigger, bolder, and deeper.

With love and perseverance,

Joshua Kahn Russell

U.S. Actions Coordinator, 350.org

Dear friends,

Imagine one of the largest banners the world has ever seen, staked down on a California glacier with a simple message: ‘I’m Melting!’

Now imagine, at the same moment, activists in Ho Chi Minh City gathering along the Saigon River to mark the ever higher tides that are swamping homes and neighborhoods. Now imagine our friends in Hobart, Tasmania gathering along the beach to mark severe erosion from a recent series of freak storms.

Now, I need you to imagine a global movement, working together on one day to connect these dots - each one a small bit of proof - and show how climate change is a clear and present danger. On May 5, we’ll be holding a day of global witness that does just that. All around the planet, at spots where climate change is already cutting deep, people will be gathering to express their anger, and their hope that the world will find a better way. At every event, people will take a photo of a gigantic dot on a sign or banner - each dot representing a local climate impact - and we’ll connect up all the dots to issue a global clarion call for climate action.

Click here to learn more, and start or join an event near you for Climate Impacts Day on 5/5/12: www.climatedots.org

Where I live in Vermont we’ll make a human bridge to mark the real ones swept away in last fall’s record rains; in Faridabad, India, where they have the opposite problem, they’ll gather on the banks of the drying Yamuna River. From one end of the earth to the other, we’ll rally to point out that there is no longer any doubt that burning coal and gas and oil is changing our planet. (If you want to read 593 pages of backup, please refer to the huge UN report issued on climate change and weather extremes that was released this week.)

We’re not doing this as a substitute for political action - we’re in the middle of fights over everything from the Keystone XL pipeline to the Kosovo coal plant, and working hard to strip subsidies and special privileges from the fossil fuel industry around the world. But success in these fights will only come when people feel the urgency of climate change. Too often storms or droughts are seen as one-time, isolated events, even though scientist tell us they fit a pattern. We need to make that pattern visible - to connect the dots.

We need people everywhere to lead local events on the 5/5/12 - people all over the world who can change the conversation around climate change. If your community is seeing the disastrous impacts of climate change already, we will use this day to show that there is a global movement standing beside you. If you have been lucky enough to avoid the worst impacts thus far, we need you too - you’ll be sounding the alarm for your community, educating your friends and neighbors, and standing with our friends around the world. Click here to register an event.

From early morning on May 5, when the sun first rises in the South Pacific and our colleagues in the Marshall Islands do a daybreak dive on their damaged coral reef, we’ll be following the day around the globe, providing an endless stream of pictures and images. People around the world will upload a group photo from their local event that captures their big “climate dot.” We’ll link up those images to make a gorgeous global photo mosaic that connects all the dots from places around the world.

We want you to watch—but we want you to be a part of it at some point along the day. Sign up here to register an event in your community. We’ll help you figure out what makes sense, and how to pull together the logistics, but we need your spirit of solidarity to get it going.

Onwards,

Bill McKibben for the whole team at 350.org

P.S. Not every place is getting pounded by climate change—so but we’re also going to try and connect some of the dots of solutions emerging around the world. So if you’ve got a hopeful energy project near you, or a beautiful community garden coming into May bloom in the northern hemisphere, get your event on the map for 5/5/12!

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Dear friends,

Earlier today, Barack Obama wrapped up his first trip to Oklahoma as President. He arrived just after a week of floods, capping off a winter that never came, which followed the hottest and driest summer Oklahoma had seen in thousands of years, perhaps ever.

But he wasn’t in Oklahoma to talk about these climate disasters. He was there to laud his administration’s fast-tracking of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. In his speech today, President Obama didn’t connect the dots between fossil fuel extraction, climate change, and the extreme weather that has reshaped so much of the American landscape this past year.

It’s a painful reminder that sometimes we must be leaders ourselves, before we can expect our elected officials to follow. It’s clearly up to us to connect the dots.

Today 350.org is launching a global day of action to call attention to these and other climate disasters, here on the same day as the President’s annoucement. Across the planet now we see ever more flooding, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked—the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before.

If we’re going to do these communities justice, we need to connect the dots between these disasters and show how all of them are linked to fossil fuels. We’re setting aside May 5th for a global day of action to do just that: Connect the Dots between extreme weather and climate change.

Anyone and everyone can participate in this day. Many of us do not live in Oklahoma, the Philippines, or Ethiopia - places deeply affected by climate impacts. For those of us not in directly-impacted communities, there are countless ways to stand in solidarity with those on the front-lines of the climate crisis: some people will be giving presentations in their communities about how to connect the dots. Others will do projects to demonstrate what sorts of climate impacts we can expect if the crisis is left unchecked. And here in the US, it’s particularly important that we make the connections clear to our elected officials - beginning with President Obama.

However you choose to participate, your voice is needed in this fight—and you can sign up to host a local event here: www.climatedots.org/start

(For more general info about the day, check out our new website here: www.climatedots.org)

350.org has done giant global days of action before (over the last three years we’ve helped coordinate over 15,000 events in 188 countries) and they’re always beautiful moments when our movement stands together. This year we’ll use that same captivating tactic to draw attention to the struggles of our friends around the world —the communities already feeling the harsh impacts of climate change.

These will also be beautiful events, we’re sure. But they will also have an edge. It’s right that we get a little angry at those forces causing this problem. The fossil fuel industry is at fault, and we have to make that clear. Our crew at 350.org will work hard to connect all these dots - literally - and weave them together to create a potent call to action, and we will channel that call directly to the people who need to hear it most.

May 5 is coming soon; we need to work rapidly. Because climate change is bearing down on us, and we simply can’t wait. The world needs to understand what’s happening, and you’re the people who can tell them.

Please join us—we need you to send the most important alarm humanity has ever heard.

Onwards,

—Bill McKibben for the whole 350.org team

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Dear Friends—

Thanks to you, people power once more squeezed out a victory over oil money.

Today the Senate defeated legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The vote was close, but given that this pipeline was a ‘no brainer’ a year ago, it’s pretty remarkable that people power was able to keep working, even in the back rooms of the oil-soaked Senate. (See the full vote count here) Thanks to your hard work - most recently sending 802,000 messages to the Senate in just 24 hours, not to mention all the calls to your Senators - we have kept the pipeline at bay yet again. It’s unlikely the Senate will take another vote on Keystone XL, but then again, one can’t underestimate the corrupting influence of the money Big Oil is pumping into Capitol Hill.

Still, the news isn’t all good. Last week, TransCanada announced plans to build the half of the pipeline that runs from Oklahoma to Texas; and while it doesn’t let them get new tar sands oil across the Canadian border, it’s a blow for folks along the southern half of the route, who we’ll keep fighting side by side with. And TransCanada also announced plans to reapply for a permit to cross the border—so even the partial win we’ve got at the moment may turn out to be temporary. But for right now, there is pipe rusting in big piles across the heartland of the country, instead of sitting underground pumping dirty oil at 700,000 barrels per day. Our victory may not last forever. But today big oil actually lost something big.

We’ve been playing defense for months, now we’ve got to go on offense.

The reason this fight has been so hard is because of the financial power of the fossil fuel industry, which brings me to where we go from here. Going forward, we’ll be working with the huge majority of Americans who want to end government handouts to the fossil fuel industry. We’ve learned a lot, not all of it savory, about how the political process works and we’re going to put that to use.

The problem couldn’t be more blatant—Senators and Representatives take money from people like Exxon and Koch Industries, and they give them gifts, with our money. It’s gone on for years, and it needs to stop. The vote today is a perfect example: the Senators voting for the pipeline have received $27,552,302 from fossil fuel industries, on average 3 times more than those voting against it.

This fight will stretch out all year long, and you’ll be getting requests for specific actions in your towns and cities in coming weeks. The first thing we’ll need to do is get every Representative, Senator and candidate on the record about their stand on subsidies.

This email isn’t to ask you to do anything in particular, besides just get ready for the next chapter. I think we all need a little well-deserved breather here.

All these battles are connected. We’re finally starting to stand up to the most powerful industry on earth. Sometimes we’ll do it by going to jail, and sometimes by dialing the phone, and sometimes we will win, and sometimes we will lose, but we are—day by day, action by action—building a movement. Together.

Thank you.

—Bill McKibben