Last Friday, BU Sustainability hosted an event to promote awareness on climate change. The event was held in collaboration with groups from around the world who are protesting the rising atmospheric carbon dioxide that’s choking our planet to death and raising global temperatures to dangerous levels. The event took place ahead of the U.N. hosting a climate summit on a new treaty to curb global warming Dec. 10 in Copenhagen.
Of course, BU Bikes wanted to be a part of this awareness campaign, since biking is a zero-emission, low-impact, cheap, easy, and quick way to get around. Especially in this city, full of transportation woes.
We formed the numbers 3-5-0, to signify the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that we need to achieve, parts per million.
You can see me, with the Jam Bike, at the bottom right of the “5,” and Tony and Greg are at the upper left corner of the “5.” Then there’s Alex with a BMX bike in the “0″.
The Boston Globe published the photo (along with other photos from around the world)
the caption reads: Students and faculty from Boston University join together to form a 350 at Marsh Plaza, a special location on campus next to the School of Theology, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received his doctoral education. The 350 global campaign calls for a reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million (ppm).
Special thanks to Alyssa Benjamin for getting us on board with this, and to Dennis Carlberg and Susan Lebovitz from the Sustainability Department, and to the Environmental Student Organization for helping put this on, and to everyone who attended and help organize.
Seriously, we need to cut our emissions. Otherwise it’s going to get ugly.
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