Connect the Dots on May 5 at the Sustainable Living Fest

Record-breaking heat waves in Russia, wildfires in Australia, floods in Thailand. Every time we pick up the newspaper and read about another record-breaking natural disaster, it becomes increasingly clear that climate change is not a future problem — it’s happening right now.

Texas was greatly affected last year by the most severe drought in recorded history.  The wildfires wiped out acres and acres of land and displaced thousands of people.  Crops died out leaving many farmers jobless and hopeless. Do you agree that climate change is not all the way across the globe, but in our own backyard?  Shoot it and show it!

Send us your Climate Change in my Backyard photos - be featured in a global campaign, an event video and at the Sustainable Living  Fest in Market Square- and most importantly, help the world connect the dots!

Connect the Dots is a project of 350.org and our partner organizations, to shine a spotlight on the connections between extreme weather and climate change. We will use those connections to issue a wake-up call for our communities, the media, and our politicians.

What pictures are we looking for?

• Show the sequels of hurricanes, wildfires, sea level rise, heat and drought, storms, increased CO2.
• Show a dot.  We can’t “connect the dots” without dots! Use signs, banners, the people with you, cardboard, canoes, land cleared of dead vegetation, or whatever else you can think of to form your dot. If people across the world send in photos with dots from their events, we can connect them online to tell the story of what climate change is already doing to the planet and its people.
• Show where you are. If possible, include local landmarks or typical surroundings of your area in your picture. If you live in a city, have some buildings in the shot, or if you live by the sea, let’s see some water. Be careful not to make the people and the 350 too small in the picture, though.
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