Dear colleagues,
Over the last several weeks the Climate Ark and other Ecological Internet web site have been moved to a massive new server with over four times the capacity of its former host. This was necessary as on recent high-volume traffic days, such as the release of the UNFCCC first summary report, the server had been crashing due to too many users. The whole exercise of moving the content and getting everything working took somewhat longer than we expected - it really involved recreating something I had created over 8 years. But we are now in a position where the blog volume will be increasing, news tracking will be more regular, and our search capabilities expanded to include blog entries. We are very excited about the server hardware upgrade which essentially gives us the computing power of a small bank. The update was largely personally funded so I look forward to recouping some costs in our mid-year fund-raiser. But surely the climate change issue is not going away quickly, the Climate Ark is clearly filling an important niche, and this was an essential investment for biocentric climate change solutions. We are very proud to be your climate change portal service provider. Let us know if you find areas that are not fully restored yet. Thank you for your continued support.
Dr. Glen Barry, President, Ecological Internet
March 2007 Archives
http://www.stepitup2007.org/ on April 14, 2007
A Letter from Bill McKibben and Dr. Glen Barry
Dear Friends,
This is an invitation to help start a movement--to take one spring day and use it to reshape the future. Those of us who know that climate change is the greatest threat civilization now faces have science on our side; we have economists and policy specialists, courageous mayors and governors, engineers with cool new technology.
But we don't have a movement -- the largest rally yet held in the U.S. about global warming drew a thousand people. If we're going to make the kind of change we need in the short time left us, we need something that looks like the civil rights movement, and we need it now. Changing light bulbs just isn't enough.
So pitch in. A few of us are trying to organize a nationwide day of hundreds and hundreds of rallies on April 14. We hope to have gatherings in every state, and in many of America's most iconic places: on the levees in New Orleans, on top of the melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier, even underwater on the endangered coral reefs off Key West.
We need rallies outside churches, along the tide lines in our coastal cities, in cornfields and forests and on statehouse steps.
Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.
