Step It Up Bitches

Step It Up 2007

"This is our organizing hub for a National Day of Climate Action--April 14th, 2007. On this one spring day, there will be hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country. We hope to have gatherings in every state, and in many of America's most iconic places: on the levees in New Orleans, on top of the melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier, even underwater on the endangered coral reefs off Key West.

We also need rallies outside churches, along the tide lines in our coastal cities, in cornfields and forests and on statehouse steps. Every group will be saying the same thing: "Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050.

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Institute, WV
Event Description: Three actions will be demostrated that individuals can take to personally slow global warming while encouraging Congress to take action are: running on biodiesel, renting pv solar arrays to GoSolar, and switching to flourescent bulbs for energy efficiency. WVBioFuels/Renewables, a co-op of individuals and institutions producing biodiesel and pursuing other non "fossilfuelish" fuels and energies will hold a demonstration of biodiesel production and of solar, and will have flourescent bulbs available for purchase. The solar demonstration will show how netmetering, newly implemented by the Public Service Commission in WV in January, and a new enterprise providing rental units of pv solar arrays to homeowners, will allow solar, and then wind, to go from "alternative" to mainstream. The amount of carbon that will be avoided per year by 100 Charleston area homeowners already signed up to rent and GoSolar will be demonstrated."