U.S. Climate Emergency Council

The U.S. Climate Emergency Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous grassroots action in the fight to stop global warming and promote a clean energy future.

Take Climate Action this Mother's Day

Take Climate Action This Mother's Day!

This Mother's Day join with the 1Sky campaign to take action on behalf of your children and all children. In connection with efforts 1Sky is coordinating nationally, CCAN is asking mothers to trace the hands of their child or children onto a letter to send to your Senators. By sending your elected officials these tracings along with the 1Sky science-based solutions to the climate crisis, we hope leaders will make a connection between our children's future and the needed actions leaders must support as our representatives.

Download the page here>>

(If you live in DC, click here to download a page addressed to President Bush)

You can find your U.S. Senators' names and addresses here>>

After you trace your child's/children's hands onto letters for your two Senators, sign your name, print your name and your address underneath and send them to your Senators.

Let's defend the future for the sake of our children and all children.

(The 1Sky platform is below the fold)

What could you do each Monday?

You could join USCEC director Mike Tidwell and coordinator Ted Glick on an every-Monday fast.
You could skip a meal.
You could bicycle to work.
If you eat meat, you could forego it on this day.
You could commit to do volunteer work for a local climate group.
You could call your local, state and federal elected officials to prod them to take action (see below for one action to take).
You could call five of your friends to talk with them about this campaign and encourage them to join it.
You could pledge to make a donation each week to a group working on climate issues.
You could join with others in your area and organize a “Clean Energy Now” vigil at a busy intersection in your town or city.
Or you could take another form of action.

The U.S. needs to lead a rapid transition away from fossil fuels and onto the path of energy conservation, efficiency and renewables. 2008 is a critical year to advance this cause. All of us need to think seriously about how we can step up our activism and commitment.

Register now to be part of the “New Energy Monday” campaign>>

No War No Warming March 19

Take Action on the 5th Anniversaryof the Illegal War and Occupation of Iraq March 19

No War, No Warming -- Resistance Is Forming!

As we enter the 6th year of war in Iraq, No War, No Warming is joining with many other organizations in calling for a major mobilization to Washington, D.C. on March 19. Despite all of our movement's work over these years, the killing continues, the earth is being devastated and hundreds of millions of dollars are being squandered every day in a criminal war for oil that never should have happened.

The US addiction to oil, which drove our country into the Iraq war, will fuel future resource wars like one with Iran, which has huge oil reserves, unless the US ends its addiction. Additionally, the US military is the largest single consumer of petroleum in the country, so as the military grows, so does our addiction to fossil fuels.

Climate change is also a result of our addiction to oil and other fossil fuels. Greenhouse-gas-emitting oil is melting the Arctic and Greenland before our eyes, destroying Indigenous cultures and peoples, disappearing small island nations as sea levels rise, and it’s creating extreme climate events and super storms like Hurricane Katrina around the world. As the situation gets even worse, as people run out of water and eco-systems wither, climate change is an emerging global security threat that could make current wars pale by comparison.

For more information: http://www.nowarnowarming.org and http://www.5yearstoomany.org