On January 10, CCAN is hosting our 4th Annual Polar Bear Plunge. About 200 of us are going to jump in the Chesapeake Bay and freeze our butts off for climate action.

The Polar Bear Plunge is CCAN’s major grassroots fund-raising event. Just like a walk for cancer, the day’s plungers recruit friends and family to sponsor them. We’ve made it easy by putting together email templates and personal fundraising pages that people can use to do outreach. Anyone who signs up will be given the support they need to have a successful plunge. Sign up to take the plunge with us!

Check out a short video of what happened at last year’s plunge. It’s very inspiring.

We hope you’ll want to plunge with us this year. The action on the morning of January 10th is going to be more fun and even more of a community-building event than past plunges. We’ll have live music with Emma’s Revolution and a short climate-themed fashion show as people are arriving between 10:30 and 11:00 am. We’ll have organic and locally grown hot drinks and food. And after we get ourselves wet in the Chesapeake Bay, we’ll be having an after-plunge party at a local green restaurant. It’ll be a good day.

So please be in touch. You can sign up by going to http://www.keepwintercold.org or emailing me at the address below. Let’s start off the important new year of 2009 in the right way, taking action in defense of our threatened climate.