[Sosfbay-discuss] Mountain View Steps It Up!

[Tian Harter]

Tuesday evening Mountain View's City Council began their meeting with a
signing ceremony. They signed onto the Mayor's Climate Protection 
Agreement. You can see my pictures from the event by visiting:

http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/ClimateChange/MayorsAgreement/index.html

On the same theme, we are having a Step It Up event on City Hall Plaza
this coming Saturday. The press advisory for that follows. Come on down!

Tian

Rally to Honor Mountain View City Council on Signing the Mayor’s Climate
Protection Agreement and to Call for National Action As Part of Step It
Up’s Second Historic Event To Support A Plan to Curb Global Warming

When: Saturday, November 3, 2007, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: Mountain View’s Civic Center Plaza, 500 Castro Street
Who: Speakers include

     * Mountain View Mayor Laura Macias
     * Mountain View Council Members Ronit Bryant and Margaret Abe-Koga
     * Julio Magalhaes and Gary Bailey, Sierra Club
     * Gail Slocum, PG&E
     * Carole McClelland, Green Career Central
     * Sven Thesen, Calcars
     * Aileen La Bouff, Ecobroker/Realtor
     * Bruce Karney, SolarCity
     * Gary Bailey, Cool Cities/Sierra Club

Mountain View celebrates the City joining nearly 700 U.S. Mayors in
promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This event is one of the
nationwide “Step It Up” rallies that will build on the more than 1,400
Step It Up events on April 14 in 50 states, the largest global warming
event in U.S. history. The events across the country—held one year
before the 2008 election— will show the contrast between the intense
concern of ordinary Americans and the leadership vacuum in Washington.
Participants in November 3, 2007 events all across the country will call
for real leadership on global warming, including the “1 Sky” priorities:
(1) no new coal plants,
(2) 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, and
(3) 5 million new green jobs.
For more information please visit the Step It Up campaign website: 
www.stepitup2007.org.

Speakers at the Mountain View event will address what the city is doing
as well as how individuals can contribute to solutions. Activities and
displays will include energy efficient cars; a crafts table for kids
with recycled art materials; an opportunity to send a message to
national leaders; and Palo Alto's Energy Bicycle, where participants can
see how hard they have to pedal to generate enough electricity to light
an incandescent bulb compared to a compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb.
Attendees are asked to walk, bicycle, or use public transportation to
the event. Free Parking is also available in nearby lots.
-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
I tried to send this out earlier in the week, but it didn't seem to go.