Greening the Earth From Below

It is fascinating, and uplifting to see the emergence of a global loosely coordinated "compassionate intelligence from below"
that echoes Teilhard de Chardin's notion of a Noosphere- a global brain- through ostensibly one-shot events.

Here's a chart of the emergence of some (mostly) low-budget voluntary, decentralized world-changing events. Because many of the events do a loose global census, or have stopped counting on their website, these figure reflect early spring 2010.

1. Green Drinks
   Since 1989 in London (701 cities)
   http://www.greendrinks.org
2. ICLEI-affiliated cities
   Since 1990 (1107 cities)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICLEI
3. Critical Mass bikerides,
   Since 1992 in San Francisco (300 cities)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
   
4. Pecha Kucha
   Since Tokyo in 2003 (316 cities)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_kucha
5. Awakening The Dreamer
   presented to perhaps 60,000 people by 2,200 facilitators since 2005 or so, San Francisco. [Added via suggestion]
   http://awakeningthedreamer.org
   
6. Transition Towns (AKA "Transition Movement")
   Since Jan 2006 in Totnes, UK (~300 cities, 60 in the US),
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns
7. Earth Hour
   Since March 2007 in Sydney, Australia (4000 cities)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_hour
8. TEDx
   Since Jan 2009 (353 cities)
   http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/344
9. Twestival
   ( 200 in Feb 2009; then 175 in Feb 2010) from London
   http://twestival.com/about-twestival-global-2010
10. 350 Day
    All on 10/24/2009, planned since spring 2008 from Burlington, VT. (5200 cities)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350.org
11. Ignite
    Six continents, 60 Cities, 600 Talks so far , since 2006 in Seattle, WA
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_%28event%29