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Dec. 3-5, 2009 - Regional Ecological Building Workshop |
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Nov. 25, 2009 - Climate Change Workshop for Journalists |
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Nov. 4-6, 2009 - Annual GWN Regional Mayors Gathering |
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 October 24, 2009 - Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis encircle the Dead Sea with the number 350 on Climate Change Action Day |
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May 27, 2009 - Israeli / Palestinian Water Discussion |
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May-June, 2009 - Cross Border Neighbors Paths Tours |
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March 26, 2009 - World Water Day Activities |
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Dec 21, 2008 - Euro-Med Civil Society Meeting |
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Nov. 25-26, 2008 - 5th Annual "Good Water Neighbors" Regional Mayors Conference and Pro Aquifer Conference |
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Nov. 3-5, 2008 - Pro Aquifer Professional Conference and Course |
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September 1-4, 2008 - 13th World Water Congress |
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July 27, 29, 30, 2008 - World Bank Public Hearings |
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July 10, 2008 - International Expo "Water and Sustainable Development" |
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May 19, 2008 - Designs for Jordan River Peace Park |
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April 24, 2008 - Neighbors Paths - 3 day tour in Jordan |
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November 29, 2007 - Regional Cross Border Mayors Gathering |
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August 8, 9, 12, 2007 - Red Dead Canal / World Bank Public Hearings |
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July 15, 2007 - BIG JUMP! into the Jordan River |
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June 5, 2007 - FoEME speaking in 2 events in Washington D.C. |
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May 10, 2007 - Red Sea Dead Sea Conduit Conference |
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March 14, 2007 - ALLMEP Peacebuilding Reception |
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March 1, 2007 - British Opposition Leader Plants an Olive Tree at Wadi Fukin |
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February 7, 2007 - Cross Border Mayors Gathering |
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January 17, 2007 - Jordanian Israeli Cooperation at Southern Dead Sea |
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January 10, 2007 - Cross Border Israeli Jordanian Mayors meeting |
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December 4-8, 2006 - Jordan Valley Tour |
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November 20, 2006 - Cross Border Mayors Meeting |
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October 18, 2006 - World Water Monitoring Day |
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October 8-10 2006 - Childrens Art Exhibit |
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September 8-9, 2006 - Art Workshop |
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September 7, 2006 - Cross-Border Adult Forum Meeting |
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September 6, 2006 - Beit Shean, Pella Mayors Meeting |
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August 1, 2006 - Radio All For Peace - FoEME Weekly Radio Time |
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July 26, 2006 - Ecological Garden Inaugural Ceremony |
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July 18, 2006 - Med-Youth Creating a Sustainable Med-Future |
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July 16-20, 2006 - Experts Mission |
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April 20, 2006 - Earth Day Event |
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March 23, 2006 - Workshop on Planning of Sansan Area (Hebrew) |
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March 22, 2006 - Jordan Valley / Dead Sea Mayors Forum |
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Feb. 9, 2006 - WTO and us... |
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Jan. 31, 2006 - Symposium on Solid Waste Polluting the Mt. Aquifer |
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October 24, 2009 - Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis encircle the Dead Sea with the number 350 on Climate Change Action Day
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On October 24, FoEME joined 350.org in a global day of action to demand strong, science-based solutions to climate change!
The worlds best climate scientists have identified 350 parts per million as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. Although the international community will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009 to craft a new treaty for reducing global warming emissions, this number is nowhere to be seen.
The international initiative, 350.org, has organized thousands of communities around the globe to call upon their leaders to stop global warming and to demand effective, science-based emissions targets.
Here in the Middle East, FoEME hosted a large gathering to attract the attention of decision-makers. In our region, global warming will cause water shortages, desertification, and loss of agricultural land.
We chose the DEAD SEA as the place to hold our event; a potential World Heritage Site that is shrinking from lack of incoming water. The Dead Seas demise reflects unsustainable water use in the region which now, due to climate change and the prediction of even less precipitation, is more unsustainable than ever. It also represents a warning for what other lakes in semi-arid regions can expect as a result of the climate crisis and unsustainable water consumption.
The 350.org event gathered hundreds of environmental activists from our community projects towns around the Dead Sea, as well as others in Israel, Palestine and Jordan that joined in the effort; aerial photographs were taken showing the three gatherings of people around the Dead Sea, creating an image of the numbers 350. Every photo included a group of participants forming a human chain in the shape of the digits 350 (either 3, 5, or 0). These photos display a powerful image and can bring enormous attention to the negative effects of climate change.
Click here for a power point presentation with photos of the event around the Dead Sea
Read more in Hebrew about the 350 initiative.
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