SYNOPSIS:

Zeke, Milo, and Brandon are struggling to keep their environmental protest group, GreensWord, alive. It impresses chicks and sure beats getting jobs as corporate serfs in the real world. But their chief benefactor, movie star Matthew Barrington, threatens to cut off funding unless they stop global warming before his Malibu beach house slides into the storm-tossed ocean. In their desperate effort to save the beach house and their organization, the GreensWord trio is willing to try almost anything: drop sugar cubes into the gas tanks of thousands of cars, embark on a high-speed chase to advertise the reflective properties of white car roofs, even engage in a dangerous game of blackmail. But nothing is fast enough to stop global warming in time. . .until they think of the unthinkable solution: nuclear winter. Rationalizing away any human costs, the environmental zealots plot to set off a nuclear blast in the Cascades and trigger a series of ash-spewing volcanic explosions to block sunlight and rapidly cool the planet. If that means they also take out the reigning internet tycoon and his monopolistic Seattle software company, that's just organic frosting on the vegan cake. And although they may be crazed fanatics, they've watched enough T.V. to think they know exactly what to do to foil any investigation of their noble crime: deluge the authorities with random evidence gathered on a cross-country tour of hair salons, fast food joints, blood banks, and carpet stores. They also manufacture a cyber-trail of evidence implicating a fictitious organization obsessed with numerology and the lost millennium, the Sane Unknown Volunteers. A rambling manifesto supposedly sent by the S.U.V.s warns both the authorities and the populace that everyone should leave Seattle before the impending nuclear holocaust, but not everyone takes the warning seriously. Brandon has second thoughts about what his group is doing and about his co-conspirators’ true motivations, but his tip is too late to stop the countdown. When the bomb goes off and Seattle is engulfed by a nuclear and volcanic-fueled firestorm, all three GreensWord organizers hit the road. And although their various ruses may be leading the FBI around in circles, Seattle detectives Chuck Malbranche and Margaret Pulaski are determined to find the terrorists that destroyed their city and their colleagues. The GreensWord trio has saved the world; the question now is whether they can save themselves from the authorities and from the howling mobs that want them dead as a new Ice Age begins.