This weekend is the official kick off of the 100 days countdown to Copenhagen, so it's been a rather hectic day around the TckTckTck offices. As I write this post, our site counter has us at 100 days and 20 hours from the big show.
Our partners around the globe have been busy, too, producing a remarkable series of exciting events and activities to mark the countdown launch.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia arranged for 100 school children to use colorful umbrellas to form a human clock and the messages “Tck Tck Tck and “ACT NOW!” outside United Nations Building in Bangkok. That UN building is hosting a series of important United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in late September.
Back in the UK, Oxfam sunk a family and their living room (see also this Grist article)--complete with TV dinners--under water at the Sea Life Aquarium on London's South Bank. Speaking at the event, Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's CEO, said "this light-hearted photo sends a very serious message – it is time for politicians to act in Copenhagen if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change. Today the poorest people are being hit hard by extreme weather events and other climate shocks, it is for their sake that we must push for a fair deal in Copenhagen."
WWF announced today that the citizens of Copenhagen will host their very own local version of Earth Hour. The city's citizens will turn off their lights for one hour at 7:00pm local time on December 16. This coincides with their ongoing Show Your Vote project on the Earth Hour site.
Those outdoorsy types at Greenpeace Switzerland took the opportunity to climb to Switzerland's highest mountain--the second highest in the Alps--to unroll a TckTckTck banner and lay some giant letters on the alpine slopes. They also took an icy dip in the Gorner Glacier. There are plenty more photos of the expedition in Flickr.
Further east, in Beijing, Greenpeace unveiled 100 ice sculptures of children, which rapidly melted in the midday sun. The handcrafted statues made from water out of the the Yangtze, Yellow and Ganges Rivers, represent the melting glaciers in the Greater Himalayan region which are melting faster than ever before because of climate change. We spotted other Greenpeace projects around the globe: a flash mob in Montreal, Canada, and, well, a giant platic ball, in Turkey.
That's just a quick sampling of all the great work our partners are doing all over the world. There's plenty more where that come from. I'll leave you with this video from Oxfam Mexcio, featuring the hunky Gael Garcia Bernal:
Comments
13 January 10 | gustavo garcia2
save the world
trabajaremos todos juntos,
ayudemos al planeta,
el planeta tamb siente dolor,
aunque no lo demuestra con palabras
si lo demuestra con desastres naturales.
porque de aqui
somos;
y de aqui dependemos. . .