We had a blast at the event and blogged about it! Check out our blog, as a well as a photo remix of the event at www.youmaybegreen.com.

City Commissioners and Commission Candidates gathered for a public forum on "Stepping It Up" in Helena. Representatives from local non-profits questioned the panel on their plans to embrace their leadership and influence public tranportation, local food availability, zoning, ...

A great turn out for our little Island! We wrote letters to Rep. Dave Reichert, asking him to give us the gift of a safe climate this holiday season and support the Safe Climate Act. Also wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell urging her to step up and become a climate champion as Con...

It was a great workshop given by Montana Audubon on what is happening politically, and how to influence the others and politics to combat GW.

There were a number of speakers, including Lois Capps. It was sparsely attended while we were there but well set up.

Steve Cohen, US Representative, Barbara Cooper and Mike Kernell, Tennessee State Representives attended the Environmental Justice Conference in Memphis ]Tennessee with 150 attendees working on national energy issues, blight, air pollution, radioactive waste, health effects of ...

Ours was a small event, but we stood on a busy street corner and got lots of support from passers-by. We had a 6-foot banner asking for the government of Washington County, Oregon to make the 80% reduction in greenhouse emissions, along with smaller hand-held signs. One atte...

Arrived at Lincoln Memorial by bike from American U. Small group, mostly students. At Memorial, decent sized crowd, mostly students, heard excellent speakers who related climate action to environmental justice and job creation by green industries.Good entertainment. Good spiri...

Participants met in Lake Placid, NY to hear speeches, show congress our green fingers, sign postcards to send to our congressional representatives, read statements from invited but not attending elected leaders, and enjoy a beautiful chilly day in the Adirondacks. We focus...

All the speakers were excellent and very impressed at the great turnout. Had fantastic give-aways, music, informative experts and upbeat visitors.

Thanks for all the hard work put in by our volunteers and our speakers.

We had speakers come to talk about climate change and the importance of legislation. Our speakers included the Raging Grannies, Stanford professor and writer of the IPCC report, Terry Root, Stanford student Dawn Maxey who performed a Spoken Word poem about how to make green su...

Speaker from Clean Water Action and Whole Foods

For Step It Up Ellsworth! about 50 of us gathered on a beautiful morning in front of the Civic Center in downtown Evansville. Some of us wore gas masks or dust masks in acknowledgement of our poor air quality, and we had lots of banners and signs with "No New Coal" "Step It U...

Picketed against UW's coal-fired Charter St power plant.

We had people there from Rideshare, Sierra Club, Community Env. Council, Bulbs Across America, Green Party, Solar Rec, Animal Ethics Group, the cities Vice-Mayor; all giving little talks on what they are doing and handing out light bulbs and information. It turned out good fo...

Successful Environmental Justice event, Protecting Where We, Live, Work, and Play in Memphis where 150 people discussed ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR ALL including 12 workshops national energy bill advocacy by Congressman Steve Cohen and keynote speaker Leslie Fields, National Sie...

Over 30 people came out to Woodstock High School to ask Representative Melissa Bean to Step It Up for good global warming solutions! Attendees heard a presentation from Greenpeace Project Hot Seat Organizer Kate Ogden, who spoke about the importance of moving beyond individ...

More than 100 enthusiastic bicyclists and walkers of all ages took Moscow by storm, riding from East City Park through downtown and to the 1912 Center. There, we heard from University of Idaho President Tim White and Idaho State Reprentative Shirley Ringo about efforts in sust...

Many of us first attended the press conference at the public library to hear our elected officials speak. The we walked with all our posters & banners to City Hall--the front steps are a great place for a rally. About 40 people attended. Paul Tonko, President of NYSERDA, wa...

The students of Lafayette College met at a statue of Marquis de Lafayette after a LEAP (Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection) meeting and took a quick picture for Step It Up! We are looking for good leaders next election! Thanks to everyone that made it!