April 14th: Americans Demand Action on Climate Change
by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA on 04. 8.07
The 14th of April will see over 1,261 planned events scheduled to occur across the US as part of the most widespread community action to date addressing the issue of global warming. The National Day of Climate Action has been initiated by "Step It Up 2007," a grassroots movement organized through word of mouth, email outreach, and the online community.
In Portland, Oregon, between 3,00 and 5,000 people are expected to participate in a mass rally calling on the Oregon legislature to take action on global warming, and this event will be followed by a group of people walking to Salem to hand deliver messages provided by people at the rally. The group will be staying overnight at various churches and with other community groups along the way with small events to take place each night. The group will arrive in Salem on Tuesday, April 17 th, at the steps of the Oregon Legislature to deliver and read the messages.
New York will be the site for Sea of People, an "interactive artistic installation" which we already reported on here, and which will seek to raise awareness of rising sea levels, and how New York will be changed.
Elsewhere in the country there will be rallies, bike rides, meetings and other events (you can find something going on near you here) helping raise awareness of, and political will for, the unprecedented effort needed to reverse climate change and usher in the post-fossil fuel era. Bring it on!
Hello everybody,
Just "demanding action" isn't enough. In fact, it may be a cop out, just another excuse to sit on the fence.
Sadly I don't believe that the large corporations will be listening to us, little people, in time for the climate change/global warming crisis to be turned around. Since our mutual existence is at stake (a very high stake, don't you think?), I suggest that we take individual action, and not sit around.
Peter Mansbridge and the CBC Newsworld's crew has been airing, nightly, devastating stories of the effects of climate change around the world. It pains me to watch this. Have you seen it?
This show compels me and my informal group of electronic hobbyists to put in an effort to put five electric vehicles, running from Revived Batteries (taken from a scrap pile, thereby reducing pollution at the same time) on Vancouver's roads.
We already have three battery breakthroughs in our electric pickup truck, which you can check out in the EV Album webpages. It is the first battery vehicle with a per-mile cost that is a fraction of the cost of gasoline.
However, we need more 'nearly- free-energy' cars/trucks on the road. Five such vehicles should inspire people everywhere, that they are not helpless, either.
Let's do it now. Yesterday.
However, we're just hobbyists, and are clueless about raising funds. We need help here.
Is there anything you can do?
Yours truly,
Rob Matthies
306 - 349 East 6th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC
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