With less than twenty four hours before Step It Up New Canaan (CT) begin gathering at Town Hall in New Canaan, Step It Up New Canaan is shaping up to be the most significant environmental action taking place in New Canaan in years, decades and possibly ever.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is the featured keynote speaker at Step It Up New Canaan rally Saturday afternoon April 14, 2007
Don Strait, Executive Director for Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the state's most influential environmental advocacy organization, will also speak.
Michael Greenberg, a talented, young acoustic guitarist singer-songwriter, will perform a Step It Up New Canaan.
The New Canaan Environmental Group is organizing Step It Up New Canaan, which will take place this Saturday April 14th in front of Town Hall at 77 Main Street in New Canaan. It is one of many local actions taking place on April 14th and one of at least 1350 actions taking place nationwide in all 50 states.
Bill McKibben and seven Middlebury College graduates, the Step It Up 2007 organizers, have set Saturday April 14th as a National Day for Climate Action.
Step It Up 2007 has gained so much momentum in recent weeks that it is shaping up to be the largest grassroots environmental action since Earth Day in 1970.
The goal set by Step It Up organizers is to get Congress to pass legislation to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
Where, when
“Step it Up New Canaan” participants will gather in front of Town Hall at 77 Main Street between 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The New Canaan action will commence at 5 p.m.
What
The walk
At 5 p.m. a walk, highlighting some of New Canaan’s most iconic places, will commence in front of Town Hall. It will head up Main Street. At the bottom of God's Acre the walk will turn left on St. John’s Place, go down Park Street where a view of the New Canaan Train Station unfolds; then the walk turns left on Elm Street – past New Canaan Playhouse and left onto Main Street – back to Town Hall.
At about 5:15 p.m. the walk will conclude on the steps of Town Hall, where a group photo will be taken. After the event the group photo will be downloaded onto the website http://stepitup2007.org/.
Weather
The walk takes place rain or shine, but in case of inclement weather – rain or cold, the post-walk section of Step It Up New Canaan will be moved to the Adrian Lamb room in the New Canaan Library at 151 Main Street.
Two keynote speakers at Step It Up New Canaan
About Don Strait
Donald S. Strait, Executive Director of Connecticut Fund for the Environment will talk about how we can respond effectively to the climate change challenges we face.
Mr. Strait has served as Executive Director of Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE) for fifteen years and prior to that was CFE’s Legal Director, and was Legal Director from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Strait also served as a Staff Attorney in the New York office of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
A co-founder of the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, Mr. Strait currently serves on its board of directors and the Greenwich Land Trust board.
Mr. Strait is a 1981 graduate of Amherst College and a 1985 graduate of Harvard Law School.
Step It Up participants will then have an opportunity to take part in a letter writing action to support two bills, Senate bill S. 309, Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act and House bill H.R. 1590 Safe Climate Act of 2007. These two bills set greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, set by Step It Up organizers to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will speak about Massachusetts et. al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et. al., a groundbreaking climate change case decided by the Supreme Court on April 2nd.
About Michael Greenberg
Super talented acoustic guitarist, singer-songwriter Michael Greenberg (http://www.michaelgreenbergmusic.com / and http://www.myspace.com/michaelgreenbergmusic ) will follow the letter writing action. Check out those sample tracks!
20 year-old Michael Greenberg has been playing acoustic guitar since he turned three years old. His first onstage appearance was at Toad’s Place in New Haven when he was 8 years old.
After playing in bands in middle school and high school, he went solo at the age of sixteen. His self released debut CD The Truth of Bees and Birds (selected songs may be heard on his website) was released in 2005.
Contact info
For more information about Step It Up New Canaan contact ncenvironmentalpolitics@yahoo.com, connecticutlady@aol.com or indiapug@aol.com or phone Richard Stowe at 966-4387, Lily Gruver at 966-1711 or Inga Smith at 966-5056.
About Bill McKibben
Mr. McKibben, the driving force behind Step It Up, was president of the Harvard Crimson in his senior year. As a staff writer at the New Yorker Mr. McKibben wrote the Talk of the Town column for five years between 1982 and 1987. His first book, The End of Nature published in 1989 has been published in more than twenty languages.
Aside from writing for the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Mc Kibben is a board member and contributor to Grist, an online magazine. He and his wife Sue Halpern write a column in House & Garden.
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