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Pushing cities to go 100% Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions by 2040 since 2014. Let’s turn the Paris Agreement into reality💚Our time is NOW.

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Wishing such a happy birthday to our very dearest Bill Mckibben, founder of @350org and one of the most important and influential leading voices of the climate movement. Your work for over 30 years has moved mountains and inspired millions of people to action. You have made tremendous strides and changed the world and continue to tirelessly do so every day. It is such an endlessly inspiring joy to work with you. We love you so much. Happy Birthday from Pathway to Paris #billmckibben #350 #pathwaytoparis #happybirthday

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Four years ago today, it was the first weekend of Cop21, and we were in Paris preparing for two very full evenings of music and talks, gatherings focused on bringing awareness to the urgent importance of establishing a legally binding global climate agreement. We have made so much progress moving forward, but we need to act faster. This is our last chance to move fully into the renewables era, to save our planet, to sustain our world for future generations. Please realize the urgency of this and join the movement today. We are all in this together and truly need to work together NOW. #pathwaytoparis #pathway2paris #climate #earth #paris #thomyorke #pattismith #flea #billmckibben #vandanashiva #fallyipupa #naomiklein #tenzinchoegyal #350

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Happy Giving Tuesday! Pathway to Paris is building a carbon calculator for cities to help determine how much carbon is left to emit for each city of the world in order to maintain the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement. Visit our website to see how you can support this project. Together let’s make Paris real. #givingtuesday #pathwaytoparis #climateaction #climate #1000cities #ittakesallofus

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Thank you Alberto Fernandez, President elect of Argentina 🇦🇷, for being so kind to us and sharing our environmental concerns. We are inspired by your commitment to making Argentina and Latin America a global leader in the climate movement, setting an example for the rest of the world to follow. #1000cities @pathway2paris @wearekabinett @ecostantini @michiganmanhattan @foonbeck @thisispattismith #argentina #buenosaires #climateaction #southamerica

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Hello! I know we haven’t posted for a while but we have been hard at work and have so many updates. For now we are so very happy to share that we will be presenting @pathway2paris for the first time in South America! Heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina tomorrow for our event and to meet with the people there to plan more things to come in 2020. Looking so much forward to this new collaboration around climate action for South America and the planet. See you there!! Thank you @ecostantini and @wearekabinett for making this happen. #buenosaires #argentina #southamerica #climateaction #pathwaytoparis

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Today is the 5 year anniversary of Pathway to Paris. It was 5 years ago tonight that we launched with a concert event in New York City and started on the path - it was a night filled with music, poetry, words of urgency and ambition, real action, science, and hope. The energy was palpable and we knew a gap was being filled joining together the arts with climate action. In these years we have witnessed incredible action, great victories in the climate movement, unbelievable collaborations, passion, and the coming to fruition of tangible and ambitious solutions. We cannot thank everyone enough - all of our contributors, partners, sponsors, and supporters. You know who you are and you are all part of this amazing movement. It has been a deeply and truly inspiring 5 years of action and passion. This is our moment and we will succeed - join the @onethousandcities Initiative as we take things to the next level with real, tangible, ambitious solutions for turning the Paris Agreement into reality. We can do this. Get ready for 2020. All the love and power to you all. #5years #pathwaytoparis #climateaction #climate #1000cities #actionnow

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Today marks the 5 year anniversary since the People’s Climate March, the biggest climate march in history, took place in New York City, where over 400k people took to the streets to motivate action for climate justice. This was the original inspiration for Pathway to Paris, where we felt a need to celebrate this incredible moment in the climate movement and maintain the momentum created by this historic day of action. Thank you to everyone who participated in the march and all those before who lead the way. #climateaction #climatechange #climatejustice #pathwaytoparis #nyc #peoplesclimatemarch #1000cities #peoplesclimatemovement

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We could not be more grateful for you Jesse Paris Smith! Thank you so much for sharing your light, passion, wisdom, joy and courage with us every day. Your vision for a renewable, equitable world gives us hope and nourishes us to continue to believe and act. To the most beautiful year full of dreams to come true for you and our wondrous world. May all your dreams come into reality, as they will feed us all.
We love you @michiganmanhattan 🌹🌺💕🌹🌺💕

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Like so many other cities around the world, this one has an incredible fresh energy of movement forward, new ideas, and turning those ideas into tangible action. There is so much passion and focus around protecting our planet and a great deal of opportunity here to take the climate action goals of he city to the next level and be a true leader. It is so inspiring to learn about what cities around the world and their local governments are doing. It is so exciting to talk and work with its residents : innovators, thinkers, artists and politicians alike who are ready for real action in this new era of emergency and possibility. What city are you in? Do you know the climate change risks that pertain to your local community and surrounding areas? Do you know what the targets are of your city’s climate action plan? Do you know what goals have been met so far? Do you know what initiatives your city is taking? Are there specific initiatives you wish your city would step up on? Do you know how to get more involved with your city? Do you know how to push your local government and mayor to take stronger action on transitioning to 100% renewable energy and zero emissions? Are you making the best of your energy and are you doing your part of following through with your efforts as a citizen of your town? Your government needs to hear from you. You need to be an advocate of the place you live in. Know your climate risks, your climate action plan targets, your city’s initiatives, and how to get involved. Get involved, make your voice heard, lead by example, and show others how to do the same. #climateaction #timeisnow #activism #climatechange #city #local #renewableenergy #emergency #milan #italy #noplanetb #duomo

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So inspired and impressed by the ecological efforts of Milan, and was especially taken today by Bosco Verticale. Designed by Stefano Boeri, as a way to reimagine the way our buildings exist in the new era of renewable energy, each tower houses 900 trees, 5,000 shrubs and 11,000 floral plants, which helps mitigate smog and produce oxygen. There are so many other added benefits — providing shade and cool air to the residents during the hot months, blocking harsh winds during storms, and also blocking the dust from city traffic. The 20,000 trees and plants in the buildings convert around 440,000 pounds of carbon each year!! And with more than 90 different species of plant life, the buildings also attract new bird and insect species to the city. Also, the building itself runs off solar panels and also collects and filters waste water which is used to water the plants. So wonderful. So inspiring to see these innovative and creative new ideas for this new era. Thank you, Milano for being a leader and setting an example for the rest of Italy, and for cities all over the world. #milan #italy #renwable #greenbuildings #innovation #ecocities #boscoverticale

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Happy Mother’s Day from Pathway to Paris. We love our beautiful mothers who gave us our individual lives, and we love our Mother Earth, who sustains us all, all of humanity, the animals, plants, all living things. Let’s pledge today to protect and honor it at a new level. #happymothersday #earth #motherearth photo by @sherbklynyc

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On Saturday, April 13, we celebrated both Earth and Poetry Month with Earthfest, a day of music, climate action, and poetry at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The event, which was free and open to the public, took place for several hours in the Hall of Ocean Life, set beneath the museum’s iconic big blue whale 🙂 🐳

The day featured performances by Patti Smith, Michael Stipe with Andy LeMaster, and music and words from Pathway founders Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon. The day also saw a beautiful performance by Montreal based songwriter Patrick Watson with Mishka Stein, an incredibly stirring array of songs sung by the famous Harlem Gospel Choir, and a performance by Spanish classical guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas joined by percussionist Nacho Arimany.

Jesse also lead four separate audiences through an experiential ‘Little Sun Sunrise,’ an exercise meant to create a feeling of unity and collective consciousness, highlighting the urgent need for a transition to renewable energy. The solar lamps were donated by the Little Sun Foundation for the museum’s education programming department for workshops and events focused on educating children about the power of solar energy and other renewable energy sources.

You can see more videos of individual performances on our Vimeo page 🙂 Thank you to everyone who helped make this day happen. Happy Earth and Poetry Month to you all 🌎💐📚🖊💚

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