It was cold and windy on the Hudson River today, but more than 150 brave souls turned out to hear professors and clergy together trying to save creation. Our slogan was Save Uncle Sam, Troy's favorite son and the national icon. But really, it's the other U.S. we're talking about.

Parents, fans, and alumni joined with the Middlebury College and Trinity College Women's Lacrosse Teams after todays lacrosse game at Kohn Field In Middlebury. Captains of the Middlebury team, gave a presentation to parents and alumni about how they are supporting a wind farm...

About 25 of us gathered on lake Ave. at the 210 freeway in Pasadena on Thursday, April 12, 2007 during rush hour traffic (from 5 pm - 7 pm) and held a banner that read: Step it Up Congress...Cut Carbon 80% by 2050. The title of our event was End Global Warming, End the War. ...

Iowa City Mayor Ross Wilburn signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Presented by Michael Carberry, chair of the Iowa City Sierra Club, the Mayor spoke about his belief in the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and what the city is currently doing. In atten...

Members of Genesis Farm in Blairstown, NJ prepare to cross the Delaware River for activities at Pocono Climate Action Day.

Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Wildlife Sanctuary had 250 people. Some folks stopped by as part of a "step it up" rally road-trip - visiting Step It Up sites in the area throughout the day. We had a very nice mix of well-informed environmentalists who compost and have switched to...

We screened the film "The Great Warming". The turnout was modest but the film was a hit and the audience was grateful for the opportunity to see it.

Creative expressions of our group's concern included: green popsicles, a baby carriage with stuffed endangered animals; an earth flag worn as a sari; and many honking horns by people in cars sitting in the Watertown Square traffic.

It was AWESOME! We had a great turn-out with over 1,000 people participating, many came with their own posters & signs. Our event was colorful and diverse; with young and old. It was a true family gathering. We had musicians, political candidates, performing artists and...

30 plus dancers from across New England and the US Stepped it Up.

At Bowdoin College, we had over 400 people, including hundreds of students and community members of all ages. Congressman Tom Allen spoke to the crowd, and we signed petitions for our representatives, gave out free tee-shirts, hosted a live band, and had facepainting and refr...

We played in the rain and had fun smiling for the camera.

Good turn out in Tucson on great day. Lots of solar, bikes and biodiesel vehicles. Good music, and speakers. Lots of kids. Check it out until 5pm, Himmel Park, Central Tucson. DRP http://dpatterson.blogspot.com posted from solar powered laptop.

As part of the larger event, four Stanford students showed the Stanford Campus Climate Change Campaign's support for aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reductions at all levels.

Nothing as fancy as "An Inconvenient Truth," but we aired several very good films about global warming (including the excellent "The Great Warming") on Ch. 28, Berkeley's community-access cable TV channel. It's something you may be able to do in your town - try it!

We gathered at 10:30 and discussed the things that we could do to increase local awareness about the need to reduce CO2 emissions. All agreed that we need to promote local activities and patronize local agriculture.

fun fun fun! lots of friends thinking toward change. Thank you!

The North Kingstown Step It Up is not over yet. We are building turn out to a Town Hal Rally on April 19 to encourage the town to adopt energy solutions that will reduce global warming pollution by 2% a year for the next 43 years. So on Saturday, April 14, nine Sierra Club vol...

Last weekend students representing all the major colleges in the Portland, gathered on Mt. Hood to create a documentary about the loss of Mt. Hood's glaciers for Step it Up. We spent Saturday night in a cabin near Government Camp, reading old cabin logs and learning about t...

The other event was a gathering for a photo a couple of hours later at Mitchell Park in the city of San Luis Obispo. An announcement was made through a local listserve only about 36 hours in advance with the invitation for concerned/interested citizens to gather at the park ...