Featured Change Agent: Agent 350 is Building a Global Climate Movement

Each week, EarthFirst.com is featuring a standout Change Agent from the social change platform, Changents.com. Today’s featured Change Agent is Jamie Henn, also known as Agent 350.

Jamie Henn wants you to remember one very important number: 350. He and his team at 350.org are working to spread their message – and this number – across the planet to fight global warming. What’s the significance of the number 350? It’s the number of parts per million that we need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to. Climate experts say that’s the magic number that can help us start reversing the damage we’ve done to the earth.

Jamie’s mission is to get everyone in the world aware of that number, and actively working to reach it – together, as citizens of the earth. The 350.org team is using the internet to crowd source cutting edge ideas as well as volunteers who can help them raise money, spread the buzz and turn 350 from a concept into reality.

This 23-year-old first became inspired to start 350.org as a college activist. He helped start the 2007 Step it Up campaign at Middlebury College in Vermont, which inspired people to gather around the U.S. on April 14th, 2007 in the name of cutting carbon emissions. The project, which encouraged cutting 80% of carbon emissions by 2050, soon became entwined with the 2008 presidential campaign and gained a lot of much-needed publicity for their cause. Jamie didn’t want Step it Up to be a one-time deal, though – he felt like there was still so much work to be done, and he wanted to be on the front lines to fight global warming.

There are many ways to participate in the 350 movement – even the busiest of people can find an opportunity to help out. Right now, Agent 350 has Action Opportunities on the Changents site that range from a crafting competition to helping spread their new video on YouTube, which you can view below.

Want to help Agent 350 spread the word about climate change and how we can all do our part to get carbon levels down to that all-important number? Join Changents as a backer and act as a publicity generator, fan, investor or advocate. There are so many ways to help, and each backer puts Agent 350 that much closer to their goal.

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