Coming Home to 350 in Connecticut

Chris Dodd for Green Jobs and 350

It was a funny day in Durham earlier this week, when after two years of international climate change lobbying, it all came home! Senator Chris Dodd arrived to celebrate the Durham Fair (one of Connecticut’s largest fall events) and parked his car at my house, a serendipitous lobbying opportunity occurred. Along with my district’s representative to the Connecticut state legislature and Senate, we discussed the role of green jobs and clean energy to rebuild Connecticut’s and America’s economy, while also setting us on target to a bold, equitable, and science-based agreement in Copenhagen that will bring the planet back to 350 ppm.

walking towards 350

Senator Dodd was enthusiastic and agreed that he would work to ensure strong energy policy in the United States in the coming months. Meanwhile, Connecticut representatives Matt Lesser and Ed Meyer agreed to continue to push through Connecticut’s solar energy policy and ensure that the energy efficiency stimulus funds actually get distributed to the families that need it most to stay warm this winter and stay green all year long. At the fair, lots of people commented on the sign, and singers from The Guess Who shared their support for 350 as well, after a crowd of 25,000 heard them sing “Share the Land” and explain that we’re all in the same canoe! We are all on this planet, this canoe, together, and it’s time to bring messages around the world and back home.

1 Response to “Coming Home to 350 in Connecticut”


  1. 1 Meme Mine Sep 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Virtually all of the money spent on research is on potential, estimated and predicted effects, not causes. Global doomers justify the existence AGWing by rationalizing it to “who is saying it” and not “what is being said”. This avoids analyzing this 23 year old CO2 theory making it a faith based self fulfilling prophecy. Is AGW another WMD? Scientists can be bought cheaper than a tomato in August and to sanctify a profession that apparently polluted our planet with the chemicals they invented in the first place, looks about as silly as Carl Sagon predicting a nuclear winter from the first gulf war oil fires. So after 23 years of waiting for this crisis to arrive, a scientist seems about as credible as a lap dancer’s opinion. Let’s call Kyoto, Y2Kyoto shall we?
    And notice how this waterhole of facts we all drink from, the Internet, is just an open sewer of untreated information. Pick an opinion. Pick a winner every time. Truth becomes foggy haze in this real science fiction before us called climate change. History will call it witch burning I’m sure.
    Melting ice doesn’t prove what caused it so by taking a snapshot in time and ignoring the history of the earth, these global doomers can then make a grim case for the early demise of the planet and even fool themselves into believing it.
    The UN has allowed Carbon Trading to trump 3rd world education, clean water and starvation rescue. How sick is this?
    IPCC “90% sure”
    IPCC Endorse the unscientific “precaution” policy.
    IPCC Endorse the “correlation” policy.
    IPCC Failed predictions for 23 years.
    IPCC Endorse that La Nina “delayed” global warming.
    IPCC Endorse the “It’s too late now” policy.
    What’s not to question sheople? History will curse us all for this needless panic.
    Come radicals and rebels and activists and Liberals and Conservatives alike, let 23 years of predictions put our minds at ease so we can finally end the world’s longest emergency. Preserve, protect and respect our world, not save it from a mistake with mass hysteria more suitable for a dark age, not a civilized age.

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About Caroline


Caroline is passionate about ensuring an safe climate future for all peoples on the planet, and believes that many solutions already exist to address poverty, increase equity, and improve environmental quality while also reducing climate change. This year, she's working with the global youth climate movement to ensure that youth voices at COP15 are coming from all over the world and that the youth voice is not only heard but seen through positive action. A French-American, but also a global citizen, Caroline grew up in Connecticut and has worked in six continents on climate related issues, and now lives, works with, and loves the Indian Youth Climate Network. She directs the Climate Solutions Project, an initiative to create, communicate and celebrate youth-led and grassroots solutions to climate change, in order to scale up these solutions and build the confidence necessary to ensure a great deal in Copenhagen. On the side, Caroline likes making climate art - rapping about climate action, photographing disappearing flowers, building sustainable dance floors, working with filmmakers to document youth initiatives worldwide, and creating dance flashmobs to spread the message of 350!

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