10-10-10: Numerology meets environmentalism

Sunday marks a calendrical coincidence sure to catch the eye of numerologists and anyone fond of binary code. But Oct. 10, 2010, or 10-10-10, also has taken on ecological significance as a stage for global events centered around climate change.

Author Bill McKibben's 350.org (named for what scientists say is the safe level, in parts per million, of carbon in the atmosphere) has thrown its weight behind a Global Work Party, while Creative Visions Foundation is urging people worldwide to chronicle a day in the life of Earth for a geo-coded online video and photo montage.

Billed as a day of practical action to cut greenhouse gases that are warming Earth and provoking climate change, Global Work Party encourages local groups to sponsor events:

Since we've already worked hard to call, e-mail, petition and protest to get politicians to move, and they haven't moved fast enough, now it's time to show that we really do have the tools we need to get serious about the climate crisis.

On 10/10/10 we'll show that we the people can do this -- but we need bold energy policies from our political leaders to do it on a scale that truly matters. The goal of the day is not to solve the climate crisis one project at a time but to send a pointed political message: If we can get to work, you can get to work too -- on the legislation and the treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run.

Creative Visions has teamed up with The World Wildlife Fund, American Red Cross, Oxfam, the United Nations Development Program and a host of non-governmental groups in creating an online video time capsule of 24 hours on the planet, called One Day on Earth:

With thousands of participants, ranging from teenagers to award-winning filmmakers, One Day on Earth is being represented by every country in the world. The unprecedented scope of video captured on 10.10.10 will be viewable through an online archive system, as well as a feature-length documentary that explores our planet’s identity, slated for 2011.

Following the landmark event, the One Day on Earth archive –- searchable by topic, popularity and location –- will be available for anyone in the general public to navigate and learn about important issues facing our global community. Participants will also have access to download all One Day on Earth footage for non-commercial purposes, offering an additional opportunity to produce their own interpretations of global life.

A video explanation of the project is available on vimeo.

No word yet whether motivator-maven Suzy Welch, author of "10-10-10: A life-transforming idea" has anything to say about the use of her favored numbers, nor whether the promoters ever considered the Roman numeral version: XXX 

Did you really just click on XXX?

-- Geoff Mohan

Photo: Los Angeles 350.org activists gather in the foreground of the Hollywood sign. Credit: 350.org

 

Comments

[Pizzedoff]

How can you detractors so casually dismiss such an Earth changing event as laughable? Please have pity on our fellow socialist drone retards, please, I beg of you. This is serious stuff!
They hang their lives on every (rapidly unraveling) thread fed to them by their New World Odor masters who prepare them for the final religion of all religions, the worship of Gaia, their multi-sexual queen whore of environmental fantasy. Obey Gaia, you live (maybe). Deny Gaia, you die (for sure)!
The bottom line is… so what!
All time is merely relative anyway. It’s a three dimensional fiction totally dependent on whatever Emperor of the Moment in Charge says it is.
Consider: the Sumerians had their Sexagesimal calendar (I DO like the name); likely though, the Mayan calendar is presently the most newsworthy... it runs out on December 29, 2012 (so we’re doomed no matter). Maybe they just couldn't find another big rock to carve on. The Scandinavian Vikings kept things pretty simple, just summer and winter… and kill everyone and everything 24/7!
However, these freaks seem to heap some particular mystical significance on our current 8th century Anno Domini system, officially decreed in 1580 something by some pope named Greg... just because...he said so, I guess!
Personally, I think these whack-jobs would do much better using the ancient Athenian Lunisolar calendar, especially since they grovel to every shallow trend of the moment, just like raving LUNITICS are prone to do.
Besides, why do lunatics feel the need to justify another excuse to party anyway?

[Rob McMillin]

The endgame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDXQsnkuBCM

[2cents]

all the earmarks of cult-like religious belief right down to the one-track spiel

[Spectron Glyph]

If you look at the date as a binary string of eight bits (a byte), it describes something more literary, if not philosophical or extraterrestrial:
o----0-----1-----0----1----0-----1---- 0
(the hyphens provide spacing to match the number below).

We then evaluate this number as
0 + 0 + 2^5 + 0 + 2^3 + 0 + 2^1 + 0 which adds up to 32 + 8 + 2 = x.

x = "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm ...
the Answer to the Great Question, of Life, the Universe and Everything."*

*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Dennis

[Reality for realists]

Sorry, you people are so fearful. You can take the first spaceship to the new planet they recently discovered. I'm sure that you'll be more happy there.
The rest of us will say here and work with each other to make things better and pull ourselves back from the brink.
I'll pack you a lunch.

[USConstitution First]

Congratulations to the Times. You have just given a platform to a band of Eco-terrorists that helped to trash the National Mall at Saturday's left wing rally.

[Los Angeles]

climate fraud sounds more like it