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Carbon Danger joins TckTckTck

October 1, 2009 - Carbon Danger is now an official partner in the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA), a collective whose mission is to mobilize a mass movement to push for an ambitious, fair and binding deal in Copenhagen, under the banner of the tcktcktck campaign. Fellow partners include the Union of Concerned Scientists, Pew Environment Group, Oxfam International, Greenpeace International, Christian Aid, World Council of Churches, World Wildlife Fund, 350, Avaaz, E3G, Global Humanitarian Forum, Global Call to Action against Poverty, and leading NGOs in over thirty nations. www.tcktcktck.org

War Artist heading to Copenhagen!

September 28, 2009 - We’re dispatching our war artist to Copenhagen to capture the spirit of COP-15 on canvas. There, Barnaby hopes to paint portraits of some the courageous individuals involved in Climate Justice Fast! This hunger strike aims to demonstrate the commitment and courage required of all nations and all global citizens if we are to equitably solve climate change. Over 60 activists from 11 different countries are already involved. www.climatejusticefast.com

Carbon Danger at NYU

September 15, 2009 - We’ll be presenting at the 6th Annual Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship at the Stern School of Business in early November. This exciting conference is dedicated to the ongoing development of theory and research on social entrepreneurship and its role in catalyzing innovation and change for individuals, communities, and our global society.

Carbon Danger unveils Keeling tartan

August 20, 2009 - Working with Lochcarron of Scotland, Carbon Danger has designed a tartan to give identity to the carbon protest movement. The "Keeling" Keeling Tartan symbolises the battle between today's unsustainable fossil fuel-based civilization (represented by grey rails on a black bed) and the sustainable, low-carbon alternative that must prevail (represented by green rails on a solar bed).

The Keeling takes tartan back to its ancient roots. Long before tartan became the respectable garb of royal subjects and family clans (a Victorian invention), tartan was worn by political dissidents and was even banned.

The Keeling tartan is named in honor of the late Charles David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose measurements from 1958 onwards supplied the first concrete evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and drew the world's attention to the effects that human activity was having on the Earth's climate. Permission to use the Keeling name was graciously granted by his son, Ralph Keeling, a professor at Scripps.

To see the official entry in the Scottish Tartan Registry, Google "Keeling tartan."

We’re in discussions with organic tartan manufacturers and searching for just the right designer. In the meantime, our friend Sarah will hand-make us kilts www.katesoriginals.co.uk.

Carbon Danger Protests Pro-Coal Policies

May 21, 2009 - This morning Carbon Danger joined the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) in a protest against Congressman Rick Boucher's pernicious pro-coal policies that threaten to sabotage the clean energy and climate bill. Fourteen activists, including one of us, were arrested outside Boucher's office for unlawful assembly. The experience was empowering. Plus we got to know Mike Tidwell and the rest of the CCAN contingent a little better (handcuffed in a police van, they had little choice). But the best news is that in the evening, the Energy and Commerce Committee approved H.R. 2454, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act," by a vote of 33 to 25. The bill's seriously flawed but it's a step forward nevertheless.