Global Warming - It's Not Cool!

Earth Day Network has a bold plan for Earth Day (April 22) 2008. We want to champion solutions to climate change and we need you there with us. Over a billion people worldwide will convene at events in communities ranging from Beijing, China to Tokyo, Japan to São Paulo, Brazil to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to thousands of community events around the globe that will let their local and national governments know we can no longer wait for action on global warming. These are our demands:

1. Impose an immediate moratorium on the building of all new conventional coal-fired power plants, and require a phase out of 30 percent of existing coal

2. Require that all utilities generate 30 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by the year 2030.

3. Require that all new buildings, renovations and developments immediately reduce fossil-fuel energy consumption by 50 percent, and that all new buildin

4. Protect the poor and middle class from unfairly bearing the cost of solving this crisis.