350NYC is an all-volunteer local affiliate of 350.org, a global grassroots network working in over 188 countries to prevent climate catastrophe. 350NYC focuses on campaigns in NYC and New York State as well as global actions.
350 is the number of parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere that is safe for our future. The atmosphere now has over 420 ppm of carbon largely due to the burning of coal, oil, and gas. This is rapidly heating out planet past safe levels of a livable planet.
350.org was founded in 2009 by a group of friends at Middlebury College in Vermont along with co-founder and author Bill McKibben.
350NYC is a local grassroots chapter of 350.org and was founded by volunteer organizer Lyna Hinkel in 2011. After having organized an action in 2010 as part of 350’s Global Work Day, she attended a 350.org leadership training in D.C. from where she and other activists from around the country returned to their home cities and started some of the first local 350 chapters in the U.S. In our 14 years since, working in coalition with our awesome allies, we’ve had many victoriesincluding the divestment of NYC pension funds from fossil fuels and passage of a historic bill mandating Energy Efficiency by the NY City Council.
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