We set up our lunchwagon at Kalama's Service station in Kaunakakai Town. On this day of climate change awareness we served foods produced on Molokai to show people that Moloka'i can avoid the cost of shipping foods here,and reduce carbon use to transport products to the islan...

Four speakers presented inspiring and educational talks. Afterwards, participants marched through downtown Salina and concluded at a local restaurant for a workshop on reducing carbon footprints, letter writing, music and discussion.

We had our event at my restaurant in our small town of only 800 full time residents, and there was another previously scheduled environmental event in a nearby town that probably reduced our attendance somewhat. And many of our weekend visitors who come from the NYC area wer...

Despite it being the last day the ski hill was opened, the first big biking day, and spring parties all over town, we still had 40 people show up out of a population of 800. We enjoyed the first warm day by putting our bodies on the line - laid in the grass and spelled out CO...

As part of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church's Caring for Creation conference, we staged our own Step it Up! photo on the shore of beautiful Lake Junaluska. The conference centered on the need for people of faith to "step it up" as we work for justi...

Eleven members of East Texas Environmental Concerns Organization, based in Athens, TX, met in the Cain Center parkland to highlight our concern about the health of East Texas treesand environment, and the long-term threat to our families and community from global warming. To h...

About 20-25 Billionaires for Coal turned out to host a cocktail party, complete with croquet and badminton, on the steps of the Bank of America building in downtown San Francisco. The building housed banks like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, all billion dol...

Our group was small, but hearty! We took a short trip on the Occoquan and got some great shots.

About 20 people gathered in Highland Park New Jersey, heard from State Assemblywoman Linda Stender and Mayor Meryl Frank in support of NJ's Global Warming Response Act now being considered by the Assembly. They also heard a presentation from one of Al Gore's presenters and th...

We had a beautiful day with informational booths and displays. We had musical acts performing from 11am to 6pm interspersed with speakers such as Decorah Mayor Don Arendt, Councilman Gary Rustad, Luther College professor Dr. Jim Martin-Schramm, and Luther College President Ri...

We had about 70 people from ages 1 to 85 and as far away as Bluffton at our picnic. It was frigid, but we had a great turnout despite the cold, windy weather (it even started to snow after we left.)Local green organizations including the Sierra Club's Cool Cities program, Tole...

After a day of playing Ultimate Frisbee in the unusually snowy April weather, about 75 women's ultimate players and the men cheering them from the sidelines joined together for a photo opportunity in front of the beautiful Green Mountains.

People met at West Glacier Elementary school. A presentations was given by a geologists who worked in Glacier National Park. Singers and song writers played before the 2.5 mile march to Lake McDonald.

It was a cool morning in Michigan today, yet we still had quiet a good turn out. Around 85 people showed up in support of the Step It Up goals. People of all ages and from many different churches came. We talked, drummed, and prayed for our leaders in congress to do what is...

We had a decent turnout for a very cold day here in Wooster, Ohio. Several speakers covered topics including: conserving energy, energy audits, local efforts, and what we can do NOW to address global climate issues. We had 2 singer/songwriters perform original songs written s...

We began our through-hike of the Appalachian Trail on top of Springer Mountain on April 14th with our plea to Congress to STEP IT UP! Sean Lena, 2007 Middlebury College graduate, and Mark Lena, MD of Orono, Maine

We enjoyed a nine mile bike tour of our town.

Oh my gosh, our event was so cool it gives me goosebumps and makes me a littly misty to think about it. We started at noon, with a huge banner, and many STEP IT UP signs for people to hold while having a polaroid picture snapped. (We had reservations about using polaroids, b...

a fine group of 7 gathered in Indian Creek. We enjoyed a day of coffee, friendship, sun and climbing fun while talking about the climate, our roles and what we can do. We had an excellent evening discussion and informed others of the special day and the Step It Up action. The ...

Lyme families gathered on the common to talk about climate change and then walked, ran, rode bikes, carpooled in hybrid cars, and rode the Big Green Bus (a school bus converted to run on vegetable oil) to the Step It up Event in Hanover.