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• 1 Max Casebeau, CEEI Director // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:35 am

  PEOPLE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY in getting their arms around climate change ( even if we have experienced 8 years of drought).

  We are in the middle of a 44,000 acre forest fire.
  look up http://www.blainecounty.org 1400 houses are exposed and have been evacuated, There will not be too much debating here about climate change !
  The question is how longer will it take the federal govt. to wake up. CEEI is moving to Boise to morrow. Too much smoke !
  I will help when I can.

  Max Casebeau
  CEEI Exec Director

• 2 Rabbi Warren Stone // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:52 am

  According to my tradition, all the world is symbolically in judgement as we begin a new year. In our world of great divisiveness, there is no issue that aligns us more deeply than our shared dependence upon and sacred responsibility to our tiny planet, enfolded within its fragile atmosphere, spinning in the vastness of time and space. Each of our actions can make the difference in our common futures. I am joining others around our country and world in this Climate Emergency Fast to raise awareness in myself, my community, our leadership and beyond to the need to act to stem the tides of climate change. I believe that the ancient and spiritual practice of fasting will raise US and world consciousness of the dire impacts of climate change. It is not enough to care about environmental challenges such as climate change, forest devastation and environmental threats to humankind and all creation. Let us illustrate our concern by our actions our spiritual connection to the earth. May it be that in future years, our children and their children will look back with appreciation to this time as one in which we heeded a great moral and spiritual imperative to act boldly. Let us hope and pray that our generation and its leaders saw the potential dangers of climate change and acted rapidly seeking alternative energies, developing effective international environmental policies with moral urgency and did whatever could be done.
  Rabbi Warren Stone

• 3 Karl Singer // Aug 29, 2007 at 4:32 pm

  As a Jew and American and a member of this earth I feel it is my responsibility to help solve global warming. It effects everyone but it will hurt the poor hardest. As a Jew it is my responsibility to make the world a better place and if some hunger pangs is all that it takes. I’m up for it.

• 4 Ellen Murphy // Aug 29, 2007 at 5:23 pm

  Because it turns out I have a medical procedure on Sept 4, which will cause me to fast anyway, I will fast on the 5th as well. I want to fast in order to heighten my consciousness, and to join with others so we may be together in awareness and hope.

• 5 Martha Geoghegan // Aug 29, 2007 at 6:49 pm

  I, too, want to support the movement to heal the earth.
  I want to help draw attention to the dangers the earth’s non-human animals face, even more terrifying because they did not particpate in this damage; they do not deserve their peril. I am also fasting to remember and protest the horror, the suffereing, pain, and loss of human and non-human animals, and the treatment of the survivors of the aftermath of Katrina. Pray we take action before all find ourselves in those same circumstances.

• 6 Dan Ariadna // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:55 pm

  I am fasting in order to let the people in Congress know that we need an energy Renaissance right now, not five years from now, in order to avoid runaway climate disaster — which could later mean evacuation of cities, or great loss of crops and loss of life, if we do not act on time.

  I am fasting in order to protect future generations from harm — those generations that cannot be present, that cannot represent themselves today.

  No more myopia in Congress, my friends! It might take much less money to simply donate solar technology to cities, instead of throwing away billions of dollars for developing Cinderella technologies. Let’s stop therefore feeding billions of dollars to dirty, wasteful, dangerous and expensive technologies like oil and coal — expensive because they carry the cumulative negative results of which we know so well, with truly disastrous results in time.

  See clear, with your own eyes in the distance, today and in the future, and have the courage to love your country and to take the right decisions on time.

  Peace and blessings,
  Dan Ariadna

• 7 Danuta Glendenning // Aug 30, 2007 at 1:02 am

  I am fasting, because this organization will make it known to the relevant authorities, who might then be willing to effect a change in their policies. I have seen firsthand in my circle of family, friends and acquaintances the onset of diseases which did only exist sporadically, but have now become the norm. The reason is the pollution on many levels, which affects our human and animal health. We must start at the grass roots, which is ‘I’ and ‘you’ to demand change in our enforced mode of living. We must end this continual consuming of goods we don’t need and which create the need for continually making money.
  We must turn our back to excessive consumerism, and plant organic produce, if it is not available in our area. Abandon driving your car for under 2 km, and switch your electricity off, when not in the room and off at the sockets at night.
  In my house people are invited to come at lunch time 12-3 to fast together (and keep the wolf from the door), but drink delicious pure, clean water and watch one of David Attenborough’s films and discuss what we ‘little people’ can do to help stem the pollution of the planet. Remember, there is people power, but only if people empower themselves. So, go for it!

• 8 Milan // Aug 30, 2007 at 9:55 pm

  I have never done a fast before, but this seems like an especially appropriate time to do so.

  Climate change is certain to affect agriculture, as well as other major food sources like fisheries. The experience of being hungry for a day may give me a more visceral understanding of the importance of both effective mitigation and adaptation, as well as the moral salience of the issue.

• 9 Lorna Mason // Aug 31, 2007 at 9:47 am

  I am fasting in order to make a commitment to our collective future and in particular for my 3-year-old’s future. I am fasting to solidify my commitment to make others aware of our current climate crisis. In order to prevent catastrophe we need to educate folks about our situation, this is one step. I look forward to the next.

• 10 Scott Rutherford // Aug 31, 2007 at 5:28 pm

  I’m fasting in solidarity with my friend, Ted Glick, because what he and the other fasters are doing is so vitally important for the future of our planet. I interviewed Dom Jose Maria Pires, the Archbishop of Joao Pessoa, Brazil a number of years ago. He said this about fasting: “Let me say a word about [fasting]. It is an act of high penitence. It will spread out like blood and it will have a strong effect on other people. It is already happening. That is a reality. It is often the small acts that have a transformative effect–more than the large acts.”

• 11 Stephen Dorage // Sep 1, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  I’ve decided to join the fast because of the very slow (some might say glacial, though even they are moving faster these days) pace of the Congress in dealing with our planetary emergency. On a personal note, this is an opportunity to show spiritual solidarity with others; those choosing to fast, and those not choosing, that is, those without food. Fasting will help me cleanse, clear my body and perhaps my mind. With the recent loss of my friend (RPCV Philippines) Dr. R. Allyn Prichard (age 64 of encephalitis) this is a special tribute from me to him, as he would certainly be on the front lines of this crisis. Indeed, in spirit, he probably is! I plan to fast for two days, since I’m not use to fasting and I’ll be at work (this probably will make it even harder!) I see this fast as part of the process to rehabilitate ourselves as we rehabilitate the earth. We owe it to our children to stop the current insanity and re-create ourselves and save the environment. There is enough science available to lead us to viable solutions, but is the spirit willing? (Read “Lights Out, Sleep, Sugar, and Survival” by T.S. Wiley with Bent Formby, PhD - for what could be a beautiful, symetrical solution to both personal and global problems.) Where is our commitment to make the right decisions, timely decisions, to instigate needed changes?
  This is just a small personal gesture that I hope creates waves.

• 12 Beverly Frank // Sep 1, 2007 at 8:56 pm

  Here is the link to where you can sign up for the Climate Emergency Fast. I think that fasting, even for one day, is a great way to send a message to our senators and representatives of our commitment to trying to make a group effort at change.

  We are all so “out of touch” with the reality of the scientific data, and so immersed in the media hype of the status quo, that we are not even consciously aware of the damaging behavior we partake in several times on a daily basis.

  Why can’t we form food co-ops where we demand to use our own containers for food acquisition? What’s wrong with bringing our own containers for sugar, cereal, milk, juice, water, flour, spices, pasta, rice, etc. Things that should be bought and could be stored in bulk anyway?

  Even my 12 year old son sees the ludicrous waste in the big gas tankers he sees pass us on the highway. “Why, Mom do they use so much gas to deliver gas?” he asked me.

  I guess if you asked why I would fast for a day, it would be simple: for the future generations, for my kids.

  http://www.climateemergency.org/joomla/

• 13 Claudia Brown // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:38 pm

  I’m fasting to increase our numbers, our voice, so that we will be heard. Fasting is a very personal and spiritual commitment, and healing the earth will take personal commitments from all of us. We are having a fasting “open house” in Missoula on the 4th, with plenty of water to share and hopeful readings from this blog and from “The Impossible Will Take A Little While.”

• 14 Mary Louise Ellenberger1 // Sep 2, 2007 at 9:14 am

  Having never before fasted, I join this fast because of my deep concern for the future of creation. I plan to study, meditate, and pray on Tuesday that I may use my very self in this commitment to peace and justice. I hope to share my concern with other members of the retirement community where I live, but that will be the most challenging goal of the day. How to do that effectively? I’d like to know more about the CA retirement community mentioned in the blog as actively participating. I think that we seniors need to be considered and helped to take a stand just as the youth need special attention.

• 15 Ellie Whitney // Sep 2, 2007 at 11:23 am

  Why? Because my heart is breaking and I do not know what else I can do.

• 16 Noel Schmidt // Sep 2, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  I have decided to fast for a day on Sept. 4 for two reasons. The first is that connection to the earth and the over use of it on my part that certainly affects the ability of others to have enough, and as a prayer for the awakening of our souls to the spirit that, as Wendell Berry says is so close to us yet unmeasurable in this obsessively measuring age.

• 17 Dan Ariadna // Sep 2, 2007 at 12:53 pm

  Dear members of Congress, we believe more in the biased and superficial television news (23%), or in our broken medical system (31%), than we believe in you (14%).

  According to a recent Gallup Poll, the public confidence fell to 14%, the lowest of the 16 institutions tested (see: http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27946 ), the lowest in history.

  The reason for this large disconnect is your growing incapacity to understand the needs of your people. Therefore, we would like to ask every member of Congress to prove FIRST that they understand the meaning of “sustainability”, that they understand why our society has to become sustainable.

  This is a way to prove that you love your country, by proving that you care for its future.

• 18 Greg Sutherland // Sep 2, 2007 at 1:17 pm

  The lack of leadership in the world and especially in the US has led to this crisis. I just wont to stand up and be counted as one more person who cares.

• 19 Catherine Bailey // Sep 2, 2007 at 1:43 pm

  As I look around me 11 east of Wheatland, WY. I see thousands of acres of CRP, land which our government pays our farms to sit idle. This land could be in solar or wind generation and switch grass production and still provide endless acreage for wild life and nature. I want my government to use our natural renewable resources along side of technology to save our species and its animal and plant brothers and sisters from extinction so I am fasting as long as it takes to get something started.

• 20 Ixchel // Sep 3, 2007 at 12:16 pm

  I am fasting to be the change I want to see in the world

• 21 Phil LePelch // Sep 3, 2007 at 7:30 pm

  I have fasted 80 plus hours in the past for reasons of spiritual healing and thought that fasting for a day might indeed help get the word out about climate change. As far as I’m concerned, helping Mother Earth and personal healing are one in the same. My footprint on this Earth remains significant despite all of my efforts to make it less and I felt that fasting might help me (and hopefully others) get one step closer to understanding that I/we can still grow through life with less, even if it means sacrificing a few insignificant meals.
  Coincidently, I inadvertently scheduled a spiritual healing ceremony on the same day as the fast, and hope that this combination of personal, national and global efforts will enhance my desires (and hopefully others) to be a more vocal warrior for Gaia.

• 22 Alice // Sep 3, 2007 at 10:43 pm

  I will fast to focus my spirit on loving and healing our shared Earth and to hear the still small voice that calls us to action.

• 23 satjiwan // Sep 3, 2007 at 11:31 pm

  The diets of modern, industrial nations puts an enormous strain on the planet’s resources and increases global warming. Fasting helps bring attention to both the issue of global warming and one solution (diet change) that can be achieved without much sacrifice and on a short timeline. (which is all we’ve got).

• 24 Jonah Blaustein // Sep 4, 2007 at 4:26 am

  This fast for me is a way to look inward and confront my fear about the climate predicament; to face everything that I feel - uncertainty, despair, anger, self righteousness, ignorance - and to allow the energy of these feelings to do their dance. The spiritual dimension of fasting can be transformative and in its best light can replace blame and fear with creativity. It can undermine despair and put unusual ideas together leading to extraordinary solutions. My going without food is an exercise in breaking the patterns of craving that not only can be wasteful but can also enslave us. While this fast carries the weight of convictions intended to apply pressure on those in power and hopefully to persuade those most resistant to change, fasting can also inform our own selves about what drives our behaviors, our attachments, our perceptions, our beliefs, and about our reserves of strength and our ability to be free.

  As participants in this fast, we can become ambassadors of another territory which many yearn for in our warped society that glorifies craving, that marginalizes many people, that worships luxurious wealth and effortless convenience which more and more people realize have little to do with happiness and satisfaction. Wealth pours into a small percentile at the top while government increasingly caters to this elite and to large corporations, keeping the option of war always on the table. Fear is the best strategy for continuing in this direction, but we seem to be entering an era of ‘peak fear.’ The really easy to get fear is almost gone. We need alternatives.

  The other territory can be the creation of each individual and each small community in endeavors to find alternatives to business as usual. In much of this country, community life has atrophied over the past few generations. Building strong communities may be an antidote to our situation which resembles feudalism more than democracy these days. Community supported agriculture and farmer’s markets have gained growing popularity in recent years for good reasons. Perhaps the next step is community supported energy with relatively small scale solar, wind, hydro, biofuel and geothermal projects and cooperatives to serve the local community. In each of these models, environmental harm is reduced, jobs are created, economic benefits stay in the community instead of being vacuumed off to corporate fat cats, and community life is revived with more personal contact and more political self determination.

  People who change their perceptions of being powerless in a corporate dominated world can affect others to also change their perceptions leading to a wave of empowerment which just might reach a tipping point of runaway populism where sustainability and clean energy replace the profit driven, predatory, lotto style, permanent war economy. Each person is critical in this. Each person’s contribution no matter how small is important. Helping each other to learn, to come up with ideas and solutions, and rethink our existence on this fragile planet is no longer an academic exercise just for the experts to do.

  If the leaders of this country have been paying any attention, they may well be as fearful of the climate crisis as we are. A fast is a demonstration to them of the price we are willing to pay to leave a healthy world for future generations, that we are not slaves to the supposed obligation to have larger than life appetites, that we have some great ideas about getting off the oil, coal and gas habits, and that the politics of greed will be no salvation when the tsunami of instability rushes to the shore. A fast is also a demonstration to ourselves that one person acting with awareness instead of hate or fear has a powerful impact; many people acting with awareness can change the mind of the world.

  Going without food for a few days is a small price to pay if it leads to a snowball effect of more and more people realizing that the old monopolized, subsidized, cheap fossil-energy system we now have is really too dangerous and too violent for life on the planet to bear. Solving the problem of global climate change is not going to be easy, but it’s very possible that our actions and ideas will set an example of generosity, wisdom and peace that may free all of us from the ravages of greed, hate and fear.

• 25 Boxorox // Sep 4, 2007 at 4:49 am

  This is the dumbest thing I have heard of in a very long time. Climate chagne is NOT an emergency situation.

• 26 Mary Freimuth // Sep 4, 2007 at 8:16 am

  I am fasting to be attentive throughout the day in love of life here and now with hope that life continues respectfully.

• 27 Mary Eileen // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:10 am

  Fasting today, voting in every election, making day-to-day choices about purchases … it’s all of a piece. But the important aspect of today’s fast is its emphasis on the obligation our U.S. Representatives and Senators have to do what is right. Neither wasting a year waiting for a new administration nor concentrating on what brings more money into the campaign chests are viable or ethical options.
  Why now, not later?
  Remember the Mars Rover launches? Newscasters hosted impromptu physics lessons. “A tiny change in direction at the moment of launch decides whether you head to the Moon, Mars or out of the solar system. Later, it takes a much l-a-r-g-e-r effort to change the direction.” That’s just as true in economies, industries and environments as in rocket trajectories. Better we choose the right direction NOW and got moving than we wait until a later time with expanded problems, more costs, and fewer options.

• 28 Craig Tufts // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:21 am

  I decided that participating in the fast today would help to keep me on track personally and professionally by continuing to let others know how seriously I take the climate crisis.

  Last fall I ran a 50 mile race to let people know about my concern. I blogged about the effort to prepare for the run and to tell others how I see global warming is changing the places and living things that I view and experience.

  Whenever I run now, I can’t help but see the changes that have already occurred and wonder about what my children and their children will experience on such a rapidly changing planet.

  Over the weekend, I visited one of my favorite places in the eastern US, the barrier islands of North Carolina. I hadn’t visited for 10 years; I wonder what these places, so close to sea level, will experience over the next 50 years. I thought about how the human communities of this coast will disappear but too tried to picture in my mind where the sanderlings and willets, now on the beach edges in front of those houses, will visit future sands miles inland from where they are today, in the year 2100.

• 29 Dan Ariadna // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:23 am

  The call for a sustainable society, coming from most areas of science, is an emergency call. Our societies have to move toward becoming sustainable now, not years from now, in order to prevent major disruptions and crises.

  Our modern, fossil-fuel-based agriculture and transportation systems are presently unsustainable: in the case of oil price spikes or worldwide diminishing resources, entire countries could become paralyzed. Therefore the transition toward renewables has to start NOW.

  Moreover, NASA scientists are explaining that we only have a window of time to stabilize the Earth’s climate. This cannot be done overnight and has to start now, in order to protect future generations and create stability for our societies.

  It is therefore the duty of every citizen — especially of those in leadership positions — to learn the meaning of sustainability.

• 30 Shannon // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:30 am

  I am fasting because it is a profound gesture and global warming is a profound problem.

• 31 Marco // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:32 am

  Please tell friends I’m fasting for four days.
  Please ask them to do what they can to get their
  own focus kickstarted so we can better see how
  all theses issues, war, poverty, taxes, food,
  consumer goods, technology… How it’s all related.
  It’s sacred actually. Ignoring it is not just at
  our own peril it’s criminal.
  I fast so I’ll have better ways to articulate what
  you’re reading right here. It’s been some time since
  I’ve focused on foodstuffs and lacks of foodstuffs.
  Especially how it relates to the environment.
  I’m fasting to get myself back to that focus.
  And on a personal note I’m fasting before I prepare
  to say some very harsh things about why I feel it is
  that Keb Mo’ is only moderately famous while People
  such as Paris Hilton enjoy such fame and fortune with
  little or no work of their own.

• 32 Holly Near // Sep 4, 2007 at 10:18 am

  I am joining the fast today, September 4th, from Sebastopol, California. Thinking of all of you around the world who share in this action. I am in profound awe of this planet, spinning through space at an unimaginable rate of speed. By the way, thousands of soldiers have gone AWOL over the past few years - another form of “fasting”. Holly Near

• 33 Alan Bender // Sep 4, 2007 at 11:25 am

  Desperation. Feel it.

  War is not the Answer
  Ride a Bicycle

  >>>

• 34 Boxorox // Sep 4, 2007 at 12:26 pm

  As fast as I can, I defy the measures taken in response to the scare campaign of global warming.

• 35 Kathy Gannett // Sep 4, 2007 at 12:42 pm

  I am fasting so that we all may learn more about respecting nature and our environment. I want to learn how I can change the way I live my life to give more love and respect to all people and all living things, as well as the environment.
  Con paz & amor,
  Kathy, Vieques, Puerto Rico

• 36 Dan Ariadna // Sep 4, 2007 at 1:07 pm

  Media Coverage of the September 4th Climate Emergency Fast

  - CBS Radio interviewed Ted Glick on September 3 and they indicated that short clips of the interview will be broadcasted in the morning of Sept. 4th.

  - C-Span TV channel promised to Ted Glick on Friday that they will be covering the Climate Emergency Fast press conference live, on September 4th.

  - The National Catholic Reporter published already a story.

  - Ekklesia, which is a British think tank and website has published a supportive article called “Civic and faith activists back US climate change fast”.

  - Grist published remarks by Glenn Hurowitz. Glenn covers environmental affairs for The American Prospect and contributed to The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, and other publications.

  - The Washington Post published on September 4th — the day when the Climate Fast started as a statement against new coal plants — an article subtitled “Plans for New Plants Stalled by Growing Opposition”. Although the Washington Post does not mention the Fast by its name, the article underlines “how unpopular coal plants have become” recently in the United States.

• 37 Martha Heil // Sep 4, 2007 at 1:55 pm

  I’m fasting today because I know that others will starve if we don’t do something quickly about the amount of pollutants put in our air, the way our energy is distributed, and the way we waste so much.

  I’m kinda hungry now, but that’s nothing compared to the suffering of those that will starve as climates that were once fertile become drier, and who will starve because we waste so much energy and food today.

• 38 Josh Lynch // Sep 4, 2007 at 6:31 pm

  Today I am fasting because I believe in the power of many simple acts joined together for one cause. According to the World Health Organization, more than 150,000 people die world wide already due to the climate crisis. The other morning I woke up to hear that my girlfriend’s mother had lost her home in the middle of the night to a flash flood in a completely unexpected area in Minnesota. That same morning I read news stories of 44 killed in a two-week heat wave across the American Southeast and Midwest, Hurricane Dean reaching Category 4 status in Jamaica, and flooding throughout the Midwest destroying hundreds of homes and killing dozens. I am fasting today out of respect for the victims of future disasters made worse by the pollution that is causing global warming. I am fasting today as a silent cry for help from my representatives in Congress to enact the first national legislation this Fall, nearly 20 years after the first hearings on the topic were held at the Capitol in 1988. I am fasting because while there are so many things that each of us can do to change our consumption habits, the most powerful thing we all must do, is to join hands, look at what we are doing, and stop. Only then will we be able to see another path.

  Thank you to Ted and the Climate Emergency Council (http://www.climateemergency.org) for organizing this critical effort!

• 39 Martha Heil // Sep 4, 2007 at 7:10 pm

  wow, now I’m really hungry!!!

• 40 Dan Ariadna // Sep 4, 2007 at 7:44 pm

  More media coverage:

  - ABC News Radio — the Climate Emergency Council received national U.S. coverage

  - France Presse News Agency, one of the largest in the world

  - Russian International TV station

  - WRUF (a radio station in North Florida) and KGNU (Community Radio) conducted a phone interview with Ted Glick

  - Asahi Shimbun — one of the largest Japanese newspapers

  - WOL (radio station, 1450 AM, Washington D.C.) — one hour-long interview via phone with Ted

  - WPFW (radio station, 89.3 FM) — Mike Tidwell’s show “Earthbeat”

• 41 Rudi Cilibrasi // Sep 4, 2007 at 9:38 pm

  I am fasting to practice joining together in decisive action towards a shared goal with uncertain outcome. I am fasting to develop my own willpower and bodily health in solidarity with a cause that I wholeheartedly support. In these troubled times, such a spiritual opportunity grounded in scientific fact is a rare treat that I could not miss.

• 42 Theresa Brady // Sep 4, 2007 at 10:09 pm

  When I joined the fast I didn’t really think much about it. I just try to do what I can about climate change. I use my appliances sparingly, I ride my bike when I can, I really think before I drive anywhere most of the time, and the fast seemed like a simple thing to do. I am glad I did. Throughout the day I thought as my stomach became hungry, about all the people others have mentioned who go hungry because of famine, because of drought caused by global warming. Hopefully congress read some of the news, or the blog here, and will do something solid; renewable energy, better CAFE standards, protect forests. I know we have said this for about 20 years. Hopefully today will be the day they listen.

• 43 Michael // Sep 5, 2007 at 2:03 pm

  Just left New Orleans after months of volunteering. The Crescent City is in dire need of US citizens not to forget what happened there and not to ignore what is currently going on-lack of funds for coming home and rebuilding lives, creeping gentrification. I am fasting to look inward to what I have and have not done to act in solidarity with people in the world hardest hit by climate change, who are often the least responsible for GHG emissions, as well as the most vulnerable to further catastrophic events. commongroundrelief.org

• 44 Dan Ariadna // Sep 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm

  Ted Glick congratulated everyone for a successful campaign and press conference in Washington. He described the conference on Capitol Hill as “very memorable”, with our leaders and guests speaking effectively and eloquently.

  My information is that the C-Span 2 Channel plans to re-broadcast the entire Climate Emergency Council Press Conference today (Wednesday), at 6:17 pm (Eastern U.S. time). To confirm, please contact C-Span 2.

  C-Span scheduled 4 airings of the entire rally and might re-broadcast it again. For schedules of the Tuesday Climate Emergency Council broadcasts, go online to:
  http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=212055634760

  You can also watch the entire press conference online (if you have a fast computer connection), at the C-Span Video Library website, by going to:

  http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=200815-1&tID=5

  The speeches can be watched with the Real Media player (click on the “r”, on the upper right side of your screen), or with the Windows Media Player (click on the triangle).

  For Windows Media, you will need a recent version of Windows Media Player. The player is shipped with Microsoft Windows or can be downloaded from WindowsMedia.com. Also, you can download the RealPlayer from Real.com

  Congratulations to all!

• 45 Dan Ariadna // Sep 5, 2007 at 5:55 pm

  A DVD of VHS version of the Climate Emergency Council Press Conference can be purchased for $29.95 by going to the C-Span Video Library website. Product ID is 200815-1.

  It can be ordered online, at: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=200815-1&tID=5

• 46 Beverly Frank // Sep 6, 2007 at 6:28 pm

  It’s all great for those who may deny it, until THEY experience a hurricane or any number of the other catastrophies the earth may bear down upon us for our lack of respect and ignorance.

• 47 Dan Ariadna // Sep 10, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  Dear Friends,

  For many of you, your noble gesture and sacrifice is a statement on behalf of those who unjustly suffer from hunger, or from unbearable heat, or who lost everything in fires, tornados, or floods, due to global warming.

  They did not need to suffer. For more than 20 years, scientists warned our elected officials that the planet is dramatically changing, due to this society’s attitude of abuse and indifference toward nature, due to this society’s aggressive greed and abuse of the Earth.

  Many of you who love the environment almost gave up in despair when the U.S. Congress decided to reverse the few signs of progress we had at some point.

  I can imagine our environmental pioneers being almost in tears, with almost ho hope left in their soul, when the electric car was killed (please see the movie “Who killed the electric car?”), when the “Million Solar Roofs” project was abandoned. This dramatically reversed our gains toward sustainability, perhaps canceling 20 years of progress.

  The enemies of progress in this country may understand what sustainability means, but placed their love of profits from oil, their addiction to oil, above the future of their own sons and daughters.

  My friends, your fast, your sacrifice is a statement of love and defense for the Earth. In my view, you are defenders of this Earth.

  Our brave religious and student and climate leaders came at once and spoke freely on television, so everyone will know what their position is, so everyone will know that we took a stand for the defense of the Earth.

  May God bless your work. My thoughts are humbly with you,
  Dan Ariadna

• 48 Jan Lundberg // Sep 12, 2007 at 4:34 am

  I’m on my ninth day of the fast, water only, and have put together a new report and essay called “Fasting for the Climate and Self” which you can read at
  http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=1
  The piece discusses fasting from fossil fuels, and goes into the physiological and medical-industry issues regarding fasting and healing.
  Please contact me at Culture Change if you want to chat or if you have any questions. Thanks,
  Jan
  info@culturechange.org
  (215) 243-3144

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