350 Day of Action in Dunedin!!!!

October 24th, 2009. Over 4500 actions in 175 countries, the largest day of simultaneous action the World has seen! All with one number involved, 350. The number signifies how many parts of carbon per million in the atmosphere is safe for the Worlds climate. At the moment it is at around 380ppm which means it has to drop down to 350 to stop the World heating up causing devistation everywhere. This was a day dedicated to sending messages out to World leaders to embrace new legislation at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in around 40 days.

It was also about getting out and enjoying a sunny day in Dunedin and learning about how to live more sustainable as a community.

http://www.350.org/ to find out the facts, and see images from around the World.

New Zealand being the first country to see october 24th was an important part of this World wide campaign, and good old Dunedin stepped it up to create New Zealands biggest 350 action, a whole festival dedicated to the cause, and to creating a more sustainable city, The Spring Food Festival.

The Festival was held by the iconic Dunedin Railway Station, and there was also the usual farmers market on which always has awesome locally made food, drinks, produce and general awesomeness.

There were bands, stalls, free workshops, all kinds of things going on throughout the day, heres a few images.


Cuzzy bro






This bike created by the Greens party powers a blender, I made my own smoothie just by peddling!



Many many simple ways to cut down on polution and live more sustainably.

A big congregation of people in the festival setting up for the big 350 photo, 2 photographers went up in a 30m fire truck ladder to take the photos, they will be at http://www.350.org.nz/ soon.

Otago University and Polytechnic students gave away 3500 seedlings encouraging people to grow their own veges. Good effort!

There were also lots of other 350 events happening including the 350 bikers, a group of 100+ surfers in a paddle out, and the South Island Regional Skate Competition, heres some pics from the skate comp.

Special edition 350 box grinding, yeeeeeee.

You know it!

It was an awesome day showing how so many young and old people care about our environment and want it to be looked after. World leaders now need to listen up to what the World is wanting and work together to create a solution to the climate situation. It can be done!!!!

More pics coming from the surf paddle out soon.


Just been browsing around the net at all the media releases and 350 websites and found a few of my skateboarding inages being used!

My picture on the homepage slideshow of www.350.org. Epic!
my photo uploaded to 350.org's flickr page

Also on the www.350.org.nz website my Mums school Oromahoe has a few awesome photos featured on the homepage, good stuff!

Big ups to the 350 Dunedin crew they all did an amazing job!!!

Here's some coverage from the Otago Daily Times. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/79551/dunedin-embraces-climate-action-day

The 350.org main website begins with an amazing photo from a sunrise rally in Wellington which I guess signifies the first action of all actions throughout the World on October 24th 2009, a day which will go down in history.