Climate Action Workshop with Bill McKibben
Zurich, June 24, 2009, 18.30 h (doors open 18.00)
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** Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming,
we are still missing a key element: the movement. **
(Bill McKibben)
Program (preliminary)
18.00 h Doors open
18.30 h Intro
- why we need a political force outside the political institutions
- intro Bill McKibben or other guests
18.40 h The climate crisis and how to fight for change (Bill McKibben)
- lessons learnt from movement building and climate campaigning around the world
- questions and answers
19.20 h Break
19.30 h Questions and anwers (cont.)
19.45 h Project presentations
- 24th October (Bill McKibben)
- Swiss Climate Camp (Klima Workshop Festival)
- Zero Carbon Caravan (Null Kohlenstoff Karawane)
- ...
- your project
- ...
20.00 h Break
20.30 h Project presentations (more projects)
20.40 h Workshops in groups; Besprechungen in Kleingruppen;
séances workshop en groupe
21.40 h Review of workshop results: synthesis, outlook, next steps.
22.00 h End of workshops; Ende der Workshops; Fin séances workshop
- cleanup and rearrangement of the room
- dislocate to continue or:
22.15 h Celebrate
ETHZ, neues Studentisches Zentrum (Stutz2, CABinett), Universitätsstrasse 6, Zurich
- No parking available, no parking allowed around the buildig.
** In his book 'blessed unrest', our friend Paul Hawken said that the movement that is rising to stop global warming will be the largest our planet has ever seen. We want to give you the tools to ensure he is right. **
(Bill McKibben in 'Fight Global Warming Now!' )
Announce your participation
Your registration of participation is recommended. It is quick and easy. Use the contact page. The number of participants is restricted (clearly below 350). Registered participants will be given priority. Announcement of participation is mandatory for press and other media. Use the same form to:
Apply to present a project or organize/lead a workshop ...
... by using the contact page. Specify your theme and motivation. Admissible projects or workshop themes are about:
- raising problem awareness (specify upon application)
- raising awareness of solutions (specify upon application)
- organizing, getting people involved
- non-violent direct action
Projects or workshops may not focus on, nor may they prominently include:
- green consumerism or greenwashing or
- suggestions which aim at voluntary behavioural change
- promotion of products (excempt for information or activism), businesses or business opportunities
Announcing a project in the plenum will have to be in a few sentences in English. Workshops will be held in the language which is most convenient for the workshop participants.
** If you have been a little paralized by the sheer size and horror of global warming, now is the time to start moving forward, fast. **
(Bill McKibben)
Any questions?
Do you need a place to stay overnight, are interested but can't participate, want to be informed or to donate: Use the contact page.
About Bill McKibben (short biography)
Bill McKibben is a leading US climate campaigner, organizer and a successful writer. His first book, The End of Nature, published in 1989, is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. An updated version was published in 2006. In March 2007 Bill McKibben published Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise. In late summer 2006, he helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007 he founded stepitup2007.org to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With six college students, he organized 1'400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 US-states on April 14, 2007. Step It Up 2007 has been described as the largest day of protest about climate change in the nation's history. Coming out of the Step It Up 2007 experience, a guide to help people initiate environmental activism in their community entitled Fight Global Warming Now was published in October 2007. Bill McKibbben now works alongside people in every part of the world helping coordinate 350.org, a global citizen response to the problem of global warming. His webpage is www.billmckibben.com
Preliminary announcement June 24 Climate Action Workshop with Bill McKibben — preliminary information, includes biograpy of Bill McKibben on one page — pdf