Green Sabbath by Green Sabbath Org

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Once A Week, Give Our Beautiful Planet A Day Of Rest. A Green Sabbath Day.

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Summary

Green Sabbath is a non-religious, non-political, and non-profit campaign which aims to raise awareness and to encourage people to help slow climate change, preserve precious natural resources and improve planet health by observing at least one carbon footprint-free day each week--on any day of the week. We call it symbolically A Green Sabbath day.

http://GreenSabbath.org

The organization’s name borrowed symbolically from traditions’ day of rest and conservation. Sabbath is not a new idea. Although Green Sabbath has no religious affiliations, its vision was inspired by essence of two traditions. One is the ancient tradition of Sabbath practiced in some form by all major faiths. The other is the likes of contemporary movements such as Paul McCartney's “Meat Free Monday” and “Wheatless Wednesday” that were introduced to encourage public to observe an ecological conservation day. A period of environmental rest.

Hitting the climate change targets agreed in Paris is estimated to cost $16.5trn. But, there's hardly any costs to keeping Green Sabbath days to cut carbon emissions!!! It's a solution that will have a profound impact on climate change for little to no capital investment! Once A Week can result in over 15% annual emission reduction per country. Participation by only top carbon dioxide emitting countries will have the largest impact in climate change!

What actions do you propose?

The environmental impact of Green Sabbath campaign is more significant than can be imagined, even for just one day a week.

Such a large scale global campaign requires backing of a solid organization fueled by participation of passionate and skilled talents, volunteers and resources. That's where MIT alums come in. Every alum can bring valuable capacity and resources to the table in making Green Sabbath an extraordinary movement--a global culture without any religious, political and financial affiliations.