Dozens of residents attended a rally at Pineapple Park in downtown Sarasota to call for leadership on global warming. Mayor Lou Ann Palmer spoke about what the city is doing to reduce emissions under the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement. Organizer Joe Smyth read a stateme...

Rally at Schenectady City Hall with speakers in support of Step It Up 2007.

Delegates spoke about plans to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by the year 2050. There was information by Simplicity Matters, Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Environment Maryland. I plan to contact Simplicity Matters Earth Institute about joining a discussion circle.

We had speakers-- elected leaders, nonprofit org representatives and youth voices-- plus displays, educational materials, volleyball, and nature walks. We heard statements presented by representatives of both of our local-area Congressmen, Maurice Hinchey and Michael Arcuri. ...

What a great day for Whitefish, a small community that cares about climate change and has concerns about global warming in Northwest Montana, just outside of Glacier National Park. We are calling on our leaders to bring sound conservation policies in government. This issue has...

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

Pelting rain and 40-60 mile an hour wind gusts from remnants of Hurricane Noel did not stop hardy souls from attending the first climate action event in Wareham/Buzzard's Bay. The severe weather heightened their resolve to send an urgent message to Congress, Presidential candi...

I was very impressed with Jim Marzilli's speech. He was very inspirational and passionate - all the officials were. It was really great to see people come, even in the rain, and support an Energy Revolution. Let's keep up the work and get the bill Senator Kerry mentioned (call...

We met on the Oklahoma State University campus around 11:30 am and heard about a new energy education program that is now in place on our campus. Next, we painted our fingers green and took a group photo. We then moved to the stadium to help tailgaters recycle. We handed ou...

The Wayne County (Wooster), Ohio StepItUp event was organized by the Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network (WCSEN). The event started with a video recorded the day before featuring Bill McKibbon. Seven politicians and candidates for local office spoke. Three singer/songwr...

I couldn't get out to an event, but I contacted Arizona & Iowa Legislators, including Sentaor Tom Harkin's (D-IA) DC office, and they said they had a lot of calls about this! The I asked to talk to their person who handles the Global Warming issues in the Senator's office. I...

We held an event on a very busy street on Firday, November 2, from 5 pm - 7 pm during rush hour, where we held up signs with the three Step it Up demands: reduce carbon 80% by 2050, create 5 million green jobs, no new coal powered facilities. Our group, both environmentalist...

Last night Bill was in town, and spoke at a film festival and got the troops rallied up. Over 100 people rallied outside of this ugly little eye sore of a coal plant, conveniently located in the heart of the University campus. People wrote a whole lot of postcards to the boa...

Despite the cold, people came out today to let Congress know that we need to Step it Up when it comes to climate change. Music from the two great bands, "Pete & J" and "The Woes" helped keep everyone warm. Over 300 people hand wrote letters to our state senators asking for a...

We joined the Concord MA "American Energy Revolution." Unfortunately the rain and high winds from Hurricane Noel cancelled the group bike ride over. But that didn't stop the hardy souls from our town (2)as well as from the ecology fellowship at Andover Newton Theological Sch...

Western Michigan University students and others met on campus and marched to downtown Kalamazoo's Bronson Park, where we joined with steelworkers from the BlueGreen Alliance, members of WMU's football team and local citizens. We were addressed by Michigan state Rep. Robert Jon...

Fish were swimming to the Science Center along the water front. My crew added an Earth Science element. We floated a canoe 14 ft above the waterlevel

The Carolinas Clean Air Coalition partnered with Asheville, NC-based Earth Fare supermarket to encourage shoppers to take action against global warming and for sustainable energy. Volunteers had petitions for people to sign to clean up diesel school buses and say no to new co...

Great event despite the very inclement weather (remnants of a hurricane blowing through with lots of rain).

Congressman Nick Lampson was the main attraction at the Oilpatch Democrats event Saturday in Sugarland, TX. Step It Up partcipants were invited to attend and participate, and did. Congressman Lampson is a member of the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment a...