MONTESEEL BEGINNINGS
When Dr Seele created the Monteseel Township he allocated some land as public areas for the Monteseel community. There were two view sites looking over the Valley of 1000 Hills and the land that forms a valley between these. Access to the valley was through an adjacent plot of land. In 2009 community members started to clear this land of invasive plants, leveled the land and began developing this site as a park for use by the Monteseel community. It is now jointly managed by the Monteseel Conservancy, the MCPSF and the Ethekwini Municipality Parks Department.
Hilltop News – Friday, 3 December 2010
350.org event was one of the first conservancy activities
Information about this 350.org event
In the last week, HUNDREDS of new organizers have signed up to plan events on Oct. 24th, the International Day of Climate Action. Your action photos will be beamed onto the big screen in Times Square, New York – with global media standing by to broadcast your message. And last Friday, Al Gore invited his millions of supporters to join the 350 movement. It’s remarkable and unbelievably inspiring to see this movement building, to see the world uniting for change with a common call to action.
If you’re a new organizer among us, Welcome. Your arrival could not have come at a better time. Your efforts, combined with the key actions of organizers in thousands of cities around the globe, are going to amount to the most widespread day of climate action the world has ever seen.
In December, world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to draft the next international climate treaty.
This treaty will determine how every country on the planet responds to the climate crisis–Copenhagen may well be the pivotal moment that determines whether or not we get the planet out of this mess.
The problem is, the treaty isn’t gearing up to be grounded in the latest science — the science that says getting back below 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide is how we can save our planet. The policies world leaders are currently talking about implementing have us on the fast track to 700 ppm or more. By making the number 350 visible in your communities, your actions on October 24th will help our leaders realize we need bold solutions guided by the latest science.
October 24 will finally put the focus where it needs to be: on the science and the citizens, not the special interests and the backroom deals. And as the world spins on the 24th and beyond, we’ll be working round the clock to beam your photos onto the billboards at Times Square in New York, deliver them to the UN headquarters, and ensure they’re front-and-center in the newspapers politicians read. Your photos will remind our leaders that they need to take physical reality–and not political expediency–into account when they make decisions about our collective future.
In the weeks before Copenhagen, there will be hand-deliveries of your action photos–and the stories that go with them–to national delegates and heads of state the world over. Through the power of a global movement, your voice will be heard. Together, we will re-frame the climate debate in time to make a difference.
