Step it Up Countdown: 2 Days! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Two days until Step It Up’s National Day of Climate Action on April 14th! I’m blogging right now from Step It Up’s new HQ in the League of Conservation Voters office in Washington, D.C. Our crew moved down here to coordinate the final days and hours of this electric campaign. The real action, however, is happening on the ground in over 1,300 communities around the country. From mountain tops to coral reefs, from church steps to local schools, from Alaska and Hawaii to the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C., people will be uniting behind a common message, “Step It Up, Congress: Cut Carbon 80% by 2050!” Individual cities have put together their own Step It Up websites to promote their actions, including New York City, Seattle, Buffalo, Atlanta, Boston, and Philadelphia.

The picture to the left is of the Park School Chorus practicing for a Step It Up rally in Boston this weekend. Sing it loud girls!

In an article in the Boston Globe, Becky Bogdanovitch, the sustainability coordinator at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA said, “I think a lot of us are wondering, is this going to be some way a tipping point for public or political opinion?”

We’re confident that Step It Up can be a part of pushing the climate movement to that crucial tipping point. But it’s only possible because of all the great work youth climate leaders (many of whom write for this blog) and people around the country have done to build this movement from the grassroots up. We want to celebrate that work on April 14th in the most loud, powerful, and generally ass-kicking way we can.

What are you doing to Step It Up?

About Jamie

Jamie is the co-coordinator of 350.org, an international global warming campaign. A recent college graduate, he lives in San Francisco, CA. In 2007, he co-organized Step It Up, a campaign that pulled together over 2,000 climate rallies across the United States to push for strong climate action at the federal level. He's also an early member of the youth climate movement, leading one of Energy Action's first campaigns in 2005: Road to Detroit, a nationwide veggie-oil bus tour to promote sustainable transportation. He's traveled to Montreal and Bali to lobby the UN with youth, but he's a strong believer that change happens in the streets not in meetings. Jamie received the Morris K. Udall award in 2007 and has been recognized by the mighty state of Vermont for his work on climate change. You can also find him blogging at Campus Progress' "Pushback," Changents.com, and 350.org.