By:Kitty Welch
Sixty local and regional citizens - age range 2 months to 80 years - arrived around noon. Everyone gathered for a rousing call and response speech and photo down by Fort Atkinson's River Walk. Afterwards, the group marched 1 1/2 miles through the main city streets, dropping off flyers to businesses and engaging passers-by. The rally concluded at the Cafe Carpe where attendees signed a letter to congress, voted for local community green projects, shared information about The Atkinson Diet and created their own "footprint" quilt - sharing stories of their carbon reduction successes. An hour-long dialogue ensued with 3 participants engaging a global warming naysayer who had followed the march with a "Global Warming is a Hoax" sign. Projects discussed included "bike-to-work" programs, school programs, spring trash clean-ups and helping the city purchase more L.E.D.traffic lights. And a handful of folks signed on to our long-term community carbon reduction program - The Atkinson Diet. www.theatkinsondiet.com. The local newspaper and radio were there to document
Sixty Jefferson County citizens marched through Fort Atkinson's main streets to raise awareness of global warming and to kick-off the community carbon reduction plan- the Atkinson Diet.
www.theatkinsondiet.com
Participants share their carbon reduction stories on "baby footsteps" that will be quilted onto on a community footprint banner that will tour Fort Atkinson.
The Atkinson Diet - an ongoing carbon reduction program - leads the way to raise awareness of how to reduce the community wasteline. "Together, we've got a lot to lose."
