Earthsky Interviews
Private: Activists will hold Day of Climate Action tomorrow
April 13, 2007 - Earth
“Step It Up 2007″:http://stepitup2007.org/index.php is organizing a day of citizen action to encourage Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Here’s how to “find an action near you.”:http://events.stepitup2007.org/
Almost 1,400 actions have been organized across the country. You could reef dive with global warming protest signs in “Key West, Florida”:http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/572. Or you could demonstrate to “Keep Alaska Cold” in “Homer, Alaska”:http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/239. Or you could see “Bill McKibben”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben speak and be a part of a what they’re calling a “Sea of People” in “New York City”:http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/103, where a mile-long line of city-dwellers dressed in blue will ebb and flow in Battery Park, showing where the waterline is expected to rise after the polar glaciers melt.
“Find an action near you.”:http://events.stepitup2007.org/