This Saturday, October 24, 2009, is another day for global action on climate change. And unlike the recent Blog Action Day, this is one where you get to actually go out into the real world, rub shoulders with fellow human beings, perhaps get your boots muddy, and participate in an action in your community to bring the world's attention to a specific climate goal: bringing our atmospheric CO2 levels below 350ppm, a benchmark deemed relatively "safe" based on our current knowledge of the climate.

Where are we right now? Around 387ppm! So we've already overshot the safety limit, and have to act fast to pull back into the comfort zone if we are to avoid further problems. And don't tell me that global warming/climate change isn't real, or that you don't think we have problems already: tell that to the Maldivian's whose president last week held an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the fact that their entire country is set to sink below rising ocean levels if we in the rest of the world don't do something to reverse ongoing global warming! Indeed, leaders of the world are meeting in Copenhagen this December for the UN's 15th Climate Change Conference to make a deal on what they(we) will do about climate change!

So what can we, as individuals do, to get our governments to act?

The environmentalist writer Bill McKibben (interviewed recently here) would like us all to join in a global day of action, the International Day of Climate Action, being coordinated by an organization he set up called 350.org. Here's a video from the site to explain what the action, and the number 350 are all about:

And here's another short wordless video if you need further convincing:

Want to find a specific action in your neighborhood that you can participate in? Here's a map:

View Actions at 350.org

Now get out there, and do something meaningful to change the world!