Event Description:

If you're tired of feeling hopeless about global warming, Step Out with us on April 14 and learn how you can Step Up to join the hundreds of thousands around the country taking vital steps to fight it, right now.
We'll meet on the street side of the University of Virginia's Rotunda at 1:00 p.m. We'll hear from a wide array of qualified speakers, coming at the problem from a variety of different perspectives - U.Va. professors, scientists, architects, businessmen, environmental professionals, and concerned citizens. We'll be handing out information on practical things we can do *now* on an individual and community level to ensure a better future for people all over the world.
Afterwards we'll make our presence known to the wider community by walking downtown together for a final gathering on the Downtown Mall. We'll have some signs and posters available, but bring your own if you can; we're expecting a large turnout!
Come for the speakers, come for the walk, but mainly COME - it's your best chance to get all of Charlottesville in step with a sane human future.
Confirmed speakers include:
Chad Freckmann, Blue Ridge Clean Fuels
Cale Jaffe, Southern Environmental Law Center
Tom Jones, New Venture Directions
Laura Hartman, UVa Religious Studies Department
Prof. & Dean Paxton Marshall, UVa Engineering
Rosie Mott, Student Environmental Action
Dave Norris, C'ville City Council
Prof. David Slutzky, Albemarle Supervisors & UVa Planning

Sponsors: Piedmont Environmental Council, Student Environmental Action, Southern Environmental Law Center, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Blue Ridge Clean Fuels, and the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club.
For more information call Rose at 977-2033 or email <jsb4p@virginia.edu> .

Location:
Meet at the U.Va. Rotunda where Rugby Road dead-ends into University Drive. (RAIN LOCATION is Maury Hall Auditorium, Rm 209 - Maury is off the west side of the south end of UVa's Lawn, near the stone amphitheater and next door to Minor Hall.) Walking downtown from there takes about 25 minutes for an average healthy person. For those who don't wish to walk, a free trolley runs from the University downtown every 15 minutes or so; it will also ferry us back to the University area after the walk downtown.

Directions:
From Interstate 64, take exit 118-B (the exit for Rte. 29 North.) This will put you on the Rte. 29 Bypass. Go past the first exit (Fontaine Ave). TAKE the second exit (Ivy Road). Bear RIGHT onto Ivy Road at the end of the ramp. You will be heading east into Charlottesville. CONTINUE on Ivy THROUGH several lights (3 or so). When you cross Emmet St., Ivy changes name & becomes University Drive. You will see tennis courts, fields, and red brick University buildings to your right. GO THROUGH the next light, which is Rugby Road. You will immediately see the Rotunda to your right. --------PARKING------: on the street, if you're lucky, or in public garages. A small garage is on Elliewood St., which crosses University Dr. a few blocks past the Rotunda. For a bigger one, stay on University to the next light PAST the Rotunda, which is 14th St. Turn left on 14th, proceed one short block to Wertland St., and turn right. The entrance to the garage comes up quickly on your right. Parking is also available in the UVa guest garage on Emmet St. It is south of Ivy/ University. If you are coming in from Interstate 64 and the 29 Bypass as above, follow the directions above until, driving East on Ivy Rd., you reach Emmet St. Instead of crossing Emmet, turn right. The guest garage will be on your left after you pass a couple of well-marked pedestrian crosswalks. Park and ask a passerby where the Rotunda is - it's very close by.

Charlottesville rally participants pose in front of the Rotunda of the University of Virginia, one day after Thomas Jefferson's birthday.


After we heard from speakers and took our pictures at the Rotunda, rally participants walked from UVa to Charlottesville's historic downtown. Here we are on the downtown mall.


A close up of the Charlottesville rally at the UVa. Rotunda.


Rally participants hold signs outside of Java Java on the Downtown Mall where singer/songwriter Vienna Tang performed to conclude the event.