The National Day of Action on Climate Change took place Saturday, April 14th, around the United States. Author Bill McKibben, the main organizer of the day's approximately 1,400 separate demonstrations across the U.S., spoke at Battery Park in southern Manhattan. The crowd of 3,000-5,000 people wore blue as part of the Sea of People project to promote awareness about global warning and its effects on coastal areas. The most moving speakers were young people, however, who encouraged government representatives to act on legislation that has been introduced to cut carbon emissions by 80% before 2050.

Get Inspired:
http://www.thetruth.com
http://adbusters.org/home/
http://www.breathingplanet.net/whirl/

Get off the couch:
1. Culture Jamming Culture Jamming combines activism with performance art, guerilla tactics of protest, ritual resistance against mass media corporate commercialism. Visit http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/whirl.html, to view videos of the ritual resistance, known as "whirlmart". Or take advertising into your own hands by exposing the greenwasher of your choice and wheatpaste an anti-propaganda poster over or near the companies original ad.
2.Buy a bullhorn
3.Participate in a protest.
4.If you can't find one, organize one.
Educate the public about the issue. Write letters to newspaper editors, participate in town hall meetings. Publicize the meetings to local papers. Pick a highly visible location or centralized shopping area.

Make a difference - daily
Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs. These energy saving light bulbs are standardized to fit in regular sockets, and not only do they last longer than incandescent bulbs, they can save $30 or more in energy costs over the bulbs lifetime.If every one of 110 million American households bought just one compact fluorescent light bulb, replaced an ordinary 60-watt bulb with it, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads.
Read this article to learn more: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_lightbulbs.html