<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hi All,<BR>
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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. <BR>
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Tian are you planning to table or just attend? Who else is going to table. I can only<BR>
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.<BR>
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Merriam<BR>
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Subj: <B>Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] [G-C-F] Step it up </B> <BR>
Date: 4/11/2007 10:36:04 AM Pacific Standard Time <BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:tnharter@ispwest.com">tnharter@ispwest.com</A> <BR>
To: <A HREF="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</A> <BR>
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This Saturday in Palo Alto there is a Step It Up event<BR>
in Mitchell Park, 1 PM to 3 PM. I plan to be there.<BR>
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Wes Rolley wrote:<BR>
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>The following was copied from Carl Pope's blog, where today, Bill <BR>
>McKibbon was the "guest blogger."<BR>
>It sounds like good news, especially if they meet their grassroots <BR>
>goal. Funny, a grassroots effort run by the Green Group right from the <BR>
>beltway. But hey, if it work....<BR>
>__<BR>
><BR>
>It's looking increasingly likely that Congress will finally do something <BR>
>about global warming. The question is, how much and how fast?<BR>
><BR>
>The science, by now, is uncomfortably clear. Only really dramatic <BR>
>action, beginning now and lasting long into the future, has any hope of <BR>
>making enough difference. If we'd started taking action as soon as we <BR>
>found out about climate change twenty years ago, we'd be halfway there <BR>
>by now and able to take gradual and measured action. But instead we've <BR>
>had a twenty-year bipartisan effort to do nothing, and hence our backs <BR>
>are against the wall. NASA scientist James Hansen has told us we need to <BR>
>reverse the flow of carbon into the atmosphere in the next decade, a <BR>
>tall order here and a much taller one abroad. But our only hope of <BR>
>persuading China and India to think in new directions is if we start <BR>
>taking credible action ourselves.<BR>
><BR>
>When we started Stepitup07.org <http://www.stepitup07.org> in January, <BR>
>some people said our goal of 80 percent cuts by 2050 was too stiff, that <BR>
>it would scare people off. Instead, it seems to have drawn them in -- <BR>
>the total number of rallies is now nearing 1,350 -- by far the largest <BR>
>day of grassroots environmental action since Earth Day 1970. And what <BR>
>seemed radical eleven weeks ago seems more and more mainstream all the <BR>
>time -- last week, for instance, John Edwards became the first of the <BR>
>Democratic presidential candidates to release a comprehensive energy <BR>
>plan, and it called for: 80 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 2050. We <BR>
>sent up a cheer at our small HQ when we heard the news, and we're <BR>
>confident others will follow.<BR>
><BR>
>We're equally glad that the environmental community -- the big <BR>
>organizations that join together in the Beltway's Green Group to work on <BR>
>policy initiatives -- seem to be holding firm for the same size targets. <BR>
>Sometimes in the past, one or two have peeled away and reached separate <BR>
>deals with special interests to water down environmental demands. But, <BR>
>if all those rallies on April 14 mean anything, that won't happen this <BR>
>time. We'll stick to the fight for real action.<BR>
><BR>
>Because it's what the science demands, and because it's what the people <BR>
>want.<BR>
><BR>
> <BR>
><BR>
<BR>
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-- <BR>
Tian<BR>
http://tian.greens.org<BR>
According to pg. 3 of the New York Times for 4/8/07, a durian is a <BR>
smelly fruit. We import 1000 metric tons of durians, all from Thailand. <BR>
The USDA estimates the value of those imported fruit at $1.7 million.<BR>
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