Summary of DC 11th Hour Action Group
What we are doing and what we've done...

SEE OUR VIDEO:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=35sBu_54sWw

JOIN US!  www.11thHour.Meetup.Com/2

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Quick Clips for our workshop on GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS:
(4 minute video)

http://www.youtube.com/v/x4QY4JzVgu0

Sponsored by:

DC 11th Hour Action Group
DC Sierra Club
Budokon International
Howard University

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/2007/10/crude_awakening.html

Crude awakening
Sarah Phillips asks why aren't more people talking about the imminent oil supply crisis?

October 3, 2007 8:01 AM

"2007 is likely to go down as the year peak oil went mainstream", predicts David Strahan on the environment pages in today's Guardian

Strahan's book The Last Oil Shock[1] is likely to play a part in instigating such discussions about the impending oil supply crisis. As is A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash[2], a powerful Swiss documentary on peak oil, which finally gets a UK cinema release next month.

DC 11th Hour Meetup Group Presents: 

Climate Change: the Science, Projections, Impacts and Solutions

RSVP HERE

Date/time: Wednesday, November 14, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Howard University A J Blackburn University Center Room 148-150 (2397 Sixth Street NW)
Speaker: Cameron Shayne, Budokon and The 11th Hour
Presenter: Jerry Hinkle, Sierra Club - Washington, DC Chapter
Description:  Climate change is one of the great challenges of our generation, destined to, in the words of British PM Tony Blair, "radically alter human existence." Yet it is clear we have the tools to mitigate its worst affects by acting soon and with urgency. This one-hour presentation provides the very latest information from the IPCC, the UN-based body charged with climate change research. It will include basic discussions of 1) the science, 2) global temperature projections through 2100, 3) expected impacts on weather patterns, human health, and species extinction, and 4) proposed solutions to climate change.

RSVP HERE

RSVP HERE

Article: Consider Using the N-Word Less

About Article:
Comparing global warming to United States 1960s civil rights movement... global warming represents an even greater source of potential human suffering, not just to us, but to all humans -- and not just now, but for centuries to come. And yet there is precious little popular discussion of banning the abusive practices that directly create violent climate change. Like Jim Crow practices, we must by law phase out completely the manufacture of inefficient light bulbs and gas-guzzling cars, as a serious start to fighting this problem.

News from DC 11th Hour Action Group:

RE: Heartland Institute's Propaganda PowerPoint Presentation

A member of our group, who has a PhD in Decision Sciences is composing a critical assessment in response to this PowerPoint presentation created by Heartland Institute. According to our member, Heartland's methodology of criticism is incorrect, their criticism have no validity and their calculations are irrelevant.
Once this critical assessment is made, I will post it on this site, so we can pass it around to dispute Heartland's misinformation.
Heartland PowerPoint: http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/Assets/PowerPoint/ball.ppt

If you are not familiar with Heartland Institute, please see the information below. Basically, they are a conservative organization that funds Exxon-Mobil as well as other companies, like the Tobacco industry.

Climate Change: the Science, Projections, Impacts and Solutions
http://www.dc.sierraclub.org/calendar/detail.asp?ID=378
August 21 - 1-Hour Presentation
August 28 - Training on how to GIVE the Presentation

Date/time: Tuesday, August 21, 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm Location Sierra Club Legislative Office (401 C Street NE) Contact: Chasta Piatakovas, 202-320-1205, cpiatakovas@netzero.com

Description:

Climate change is one of the great challenges of our generation, destined to, in the words of British PM Tony Blair, "radically alter human existence." Yet it is clear we have the tools to mitigate its worst affects by acting soon and with urgency. This one-hour presentation (RSVP here) provides the very latest information from the IPCC, the UN-based body charged with climate change research. It will include basic discussions of 1) the science, 2) global temperature projections through 2100, 3) expected impacts on weather patterns, human health, and species extinction, and 4) proposed solutions to climate change. This discussion will leave the audience both much better informed, and inspired to act, on this critical issue.

FOOD, FOLKS, AND FUN! Volunteer Night on August 28th will focus on training volunteers to present "Climate Change: the Science, Projections, Impacts and Solutions."

I contacted Orbite TV today about spotlighting the 11th Hour.  I also invited them to my MeetUp Group.

Today I formed a 11th Hour MeetUp Group in Washington, DC. Our first meeting will be Sept 5, 2007 and 6:30 pm. I am hopeful that many will attend...

http://11thhour.meetup.com/2/