[Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up/Mitchell Park PaloAlto event/are we tabling at this event?

Tian Harter tnharter at ispwest.com
Fri Apr 13 10:52:50 PDT 2007


I don't have a table or a chair. I can table if we need someone
to do it but I'd much rather wander around taking pictures.

Tian

Gerry Gras wrote:

>I will be there.  I can table.  But I have no materials.
>Who will bring materials to and from the event?
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>Gerry
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>MKmusic03 at aol.com wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>The Step It Up event this Saturday (4/14) at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto 
>>is the event we said we would table.   Are we still going to table at 
>>it?  The 4/5 business meeting agenda has the date for this event as 
>>4/18.  The correct date is Saturday 4/14.
>>
>>Tian are you planning to table or just attend?  Who else is going to 
>>table.  I can only
>>be there from 1pm - 2pm.  I thought I could be there til 3pm but I have 
>>to be back at San Jose for an important meeting.
>>
>>Merriam
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>>Subj: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up 
>>Date: 4/11/2007 10:36:04 AM Pacific Standard Time
>>From: tnharter at ispwest.com
>>To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
>>Sent from the Internet (Details)
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>>This Saturday in Palo Alto there is a Step It Up event
>>in Mitchell Park, 1 PM to 3 PM. I plan to be there.
>>
>>Wes Rolley wrote:
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>> >The following was copied from Carl Pope's blog, where today, Bill
>> >McKibbon was the "guest blogger."
>> >It sounds like good news, especially if they meet their grassroots
>> >goal.  Funny, a grassroots effort run by the Green Group right from the
>> >beltway.  But hey, if it work....
>> >__
>> >
>> >It's looking increasingly likely that Congress will finally do something
>> >about global warming. The question is, how much and how fast?
>> >
>> >The science, by now, is uncomfortably clear. Only really dramatic
>> >action, beginning now and lasting long into the future, has any hope of
>> >making enough difference. If we'd started taking action as soon as we
>> >found out about climate change twenty years ago, we'd be halfway there
>> >by now and able to take gradual and measured action. But instead we've
>> >had a twenty-year bipartisan effort to do nothing, and hence our backs
>> >are against the wall. NASA scientist James Hansen has told us we need to
>> >reverse the flow of carbon into the atmosphere in the next decade, a
>> >tall order here and a much taller one abroad. But our only hope of
>> >persuading China and India to think in new directions is if we start
>> >taking credible action ourselves.
>> >
>> >When we started Stepitup07.org <http://www.stepitup07.org> in January,
>> >some people said our goal of 80 percent cuts by 2050 was too stiff, that
>> >it would scare people off. Instead, it seems to have drawn them in --
>> >the total number of rallies is now nearing 1,350 -- by far the largest
>> >day of grassroots environmental action since Earth Day 1970. And what
>> >seemed radical eleven weeks ago seems more and more mainstream all the
>> >time -- last week, for instance, John Edwards became the first of the
>> >Democratic presidential candidates to release a comprehensive energy
>> >plan, and it called for: 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We
>> >sent up a cheer at our small HQ when we heard the news, and we're
>> >confident others will follow.
>> >
>> >We're equally glad that the environmental community -- the big
>> >organizations that join together in the Beltway's Green Group to work on
>> >policy initiatives -- seem to be holding firm for the same size targets.
>> >Sometimes in the past, one or two have peeled away and reached separate
>> >deals with special interests to water down environmental demands. But,
>> >if all those rallies on April 14 mean anything, that won't happen this
>> >time. We'll stick to the fight for real action.
>> >
>> >Because it's what the science demands, and because it's what the people
>> >want.
>> >
>> > 
>> >
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>>Tian
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>>The USDA estimates the value of those imported fruit at $1.7 million.
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