Our event was Solar Powered!!! Thank you Sundance Power and Mt. Blue! While there was a threat of thunder storms, we had a beautiful (windy) day. We had over 250 citizens come to represent the voice of our community. The local media (TV, radio and newspaper) all covered the event. Our speakers included the Mayor of Asheville Terry Bellamy, NC State Treasurer Richard Moore, NC Council of Churches rep Richard Fireman, Warren Wilson College President Sandy Pfeiffer, Gloria Howard Free, and John Huie of Warren Wilson College's Environmental Leadership Center were the speakers. We had five photographers and three videographers present and have posted all the speaker clips on YouTube. We have much more to report and other photos are posted at www.phillipraygibson.blogspot.com

Our event was powered by Sundance Power Systems and funded by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Environmental Defense. Students from Warren Wilson College bicycled several miles from campus to downtown Asheville for the rally.

Following are video clips of the event. More to come by Monday of this week.

Following is another video that was taken by David Bourne of Bourne Media of John Huie speaking at the Step It Up 2007 event in Asheville, NC on April 14, 2007

Following is video of NC State Treasurer Richard Moored speaking to the Asheville, NC Step It Up participants.

In addition to news coverage about our event, today there were other articles promoting alternative fuels.

Here are additional photos from our event. More can be seen at http://phillipraygibson.blogspot.com

This is a video clip of Warren Wilson College President Sandy Pfeiffer

Following video clip is an interview with NC Representative Susan Fisher who came to support the rally.

Following are additional photos from our event.

This is a closer view of our group photo.