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Leading A Billion Plus
Voices
Be Bold; Be Heard; Take
Action on
Earth Day,
April 22nd 2008
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WE NEED YOUR
SUPPORT TO PLAN EARTH DAY 2008 SO OUR VOICES CAN BE
HEARD!
Holiday Special! Join
EDN and receive a vest or an Earth Day 2008 poster
Our efforts to pass important energy
conservation legislation and green America's schools need your
urgent support. For the next 48 hours ONLY* (until
Friday, December 21st at midnight) - you
can support EDN's important work and receive an EDN Colorado
Timberline Non-Pilling Fleece Vest (contribute $150 or more), an EDN
tote bag to green your holiday shopping (contribute $100) or an
Earth Day 2008 Poster (contribute $50).
*or until supplies last
Help EDN Through Facebook and
Parade.com
The Case Foundation is awarding a total
of $750,000 in charitable grants through the America's
Giving Challenge presented by Parade and the Causes Giving
Challenge on Facebook. Two Challenges, two opportunities for up to
$50,000 -- it's a win-win and we need your help!! Here's what you
need to do:
1.Go to Facebook,
create an account if you don't have one, and become a member of the
Global
Warming - It's Not Cool! cause. They award $1,000 every day to
the charity with the most unique donors that day. The day goes from
3pm EST to 3 pm EST of the next day, so make sure that you donate to
us between those hours today and tomorrow so your donation has the
biggest impact!
2.Go to Parade
Magazine and choose to Champion our Cause or Give to
it.
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.jpg) On November 7th, former
President Bill Clinton announced a joint partnership with Earth Day
Network to green all of America's schools within a generation.
Every child deserves to learn in a healthy, environmentally-friendly school, and EDN wants you to learn
more about the benefits of bringing sustainability into education.
Check out the In The Classroom channel, with new videos featuring
T.C. Williams High School in Virginia, Sidwell Friends in
Washington, DC and an interview with Anja Caldwell, creator of the
Green Building program in Montgomery County, MD school
district.
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Earth Day Network is proud of our many
outstanding accomplishments in 2007. Below are some of our unique
successes:
- Our new partnership with President Clinton to "green"
all U.S. K-12 schools within a generation;
- Our pioneering educational work on climate change with the American
Association of Retired People (AARP);
- Our environmental work with network partners in refugee
camps and other war torn areas;
- Building civic
skills with high schools students around the country
- Supporting the environmental and development work of our 19,000
partners in 175 countries;
- A re-launch of Earth
Day Television, which brings original content and news to millions
of people around the world;
- Fighting for a better federal energy bill, including phasing out the
incandescent light bulb; and
- Earth
Day on the Hill, which brought 45 civil rights and religious leaders
to Capitol Hill to share their perspectives on how to solve climate
change equitably.
With U.S.
national elections scheduled and public awareness about the perils of
climate change growing every day, Earth Day 2008 promises to be one of the
largest and most important. As former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said, we
are in a planetary emergency, an "emergency that demands bold
and courageous action."
Earth Day
Network has a bold
plan for the month of April and for Earth Day 2008 and we
need you there with us. Over a billion people worldwide will convene at
events in communities, schools, parks, and churches—from Beijing, China to
Tokyo, Japan to São Paulo, Brazil to the National Mall in Washington,
D.C.—to let their local and national governments know we can no longer
wait for action on global warming. To connect with EDN partners from
around the planet. Join our Earth Day group at Earthday.ning.com,
and make 2008 the year the world unites behind the fight against climate
change.
You can help by
contributing to EDN today, spreading the word and participating in four
ways to make a difference on Earth Day 2008.
Walk the
Talk
Run, bike, walk or take public transportation
to one of our major Earth Day events, join other events, or
organize your own event using our Earth
Day Organizers'
Guide.
French and Spanish versions of the Organizers' Guide will be available
soon.
Thousands of participants are
expected to join Earth Day Network on the National
Mall and in landmark locations in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Miami, Los Angeles and
Columbus on April 20 for events that will feature
inspirational presentations as well as musical performances and paperless
educational exhibits. Around the world, our partners will be organizing
their own events to talk about the opportunities that we have to
make it right and make us
strong on climate
change.
Earth Day Network also will organize Earth Day on the
Hill for the second time, bringing civil rights and religious
leaders from across the country to ensure that the poor and middle class
are not unfairly burdened in the effort to solve global warming.
Register to
Vote
Elected officials from your local
mayor up to the Presidential candidates need a clear and compelling signal
from you that their position on climate change matters to voters.
Earth Day Network and our partners will be conducting voter registration
drives at 1,000 campuses nationwide and in low income and minority
communities in 10 key politically active states.
Make Noise
Around the world people are asking
how they can turn their frustration into action. We are working with our
partners' worldwide to turn each of us into activists for a day, a month,
a year, or hopefully a lifetime. Our goal is to make it loud enough so
that every legislator will sit up and take
notice.
On Earth Day itself, Tuesday,
April 22, we are asking all of you to join us in a single act: Call the
Capitol Hill switchboard and tell your Senators and Representatives that
they must commit to a moratorium on coal and immediate action on climate
change.
Sign our Sky
Petition
Earth
Day Network is championing a petition
with 4 clear goals and your support is vital to make it effective!
Sign our petition and send it to others, a collective voice can make
significant change.
Thank you for supporting these
efforts and for joining our efforts this Earth Day
2008
Sincerely,
The Staff and Board of Earth Day
Network
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