It was a beautiful afternoon down at San Clemente with wonderfully dedicated people who do not want to see a toll road going through San Onofre State Park. Information was shared, petitions were signed, and the beach was cleaned. What a fabulous day for all.

The host's plan -- to urge our senator to support a strong version of Lieberman's bill -- was a bit modified thanks to one well informed attendee. He pointed out that the cap & trade approach is highly flawed (doesn't result in lower energy use, and is an invitation to industr...

Today at the Greenpeace-sponsored event I attended there were about eight organizers, all young people, offering us the chance to write postcards to Ore.Rep. Darlene Hooley and Ore.Sen. Gordon Smith, asking them to support the goals of 85% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050...

A large draw from such a small community

We had a great time getting folks to honk and make promises to drive less in the future, all as they made their way slowly through traffic in this busy part of town. We had a few speakers and petitions, but the kids climbing up the modern art with posters and dancing around...

Thanks to the wonderful community support the Sonoma Step it Up! was a great day of about awareness and action! Participants came from as far away as Calistoga (Mr. & Mrs. Carolton) and Vallejo (Mike). From our event starting point at Maxwell Farms Regional Park, Mayor Stan...

One of the things we did this morning was to tell each other what we have been doing already to reduce our Carbon Footprint. One thing that was mentioned was buying shade-grown, Fair Trade coffee. Many attendees had never heard of it. Here’s the scoop, with two different sou...

OK, just a few more!

We discussed the 1 Sky goals, then went on to explain the importance of both political will and individual action. Everyone at the event went around and talked about what they do to reduce their contribution to carbon emissions. I passed out sample letters that each person c...

Gini G, Howie, Betsy and Lisa M contributed great pictures. Some are on this page and some are at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ruth.folkfan/StepItUpInHowardCoMD

A windy day at Mt. Rushmore, with over 45 people in attendance, we had fantastic crowd participation both with discussion and insightful questions from children and adults. We had representatives from the offices of the South Dakota U.S senators, and a written statement from c...

WIth a high of 78 and no clouds whatsoever, students, faculty, and friends headed over to Old Union Court where we had awesome speakers, amazing signs, and much support from the community. We had a petition for participants to sign, a table with videos and the oportunity for p...

Nothing happened at this event. There was no one there, no tables, no spreakers, nothing. Was this event cancelled without any notice?? I wasted my time going to downtown San Jose for this.

Here are a few more photos from the event.

Here is video footage from the event.

It was cold, but we made our point to passersby for two hours.

EXCELLENT TURNOUT AND PRESENTATIONS;HIGHLIGHT WAS SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNCILPERSON CHRISTINE MULHOLLAND WHO IS PUSHING THE BUREAUCRACY TO ACTION WITH LOTS OF FRIENDS BEHIND HER! SO GOOD TO HEAR APPRECIATION FOR AL GORE'S WORK! LOTS OF FOLS WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM AS PRESIDENT! ...

A frosty gray morning, but with a rotation of personnel we kept up a display to incoming traffic for two hours. 20' spacing between signs seemed to work well; people honked a certain distance down the road after processing the rhyming signs.

A great crowd of Step it up supporters gathered at Julliard Park in Santa Rosa to hear local and state politicians, local bands and representatives of several environmental groups including the Sierra Club, Climate Protection Campaign and others.

We began with live music by danny flanigan, heard remarks by and asked questions of our US Representative, John Yarmuth, conducted participatory street theater on our environmental history and the possibilities for the future, heard remarks by and asked questions of Art Willia...