ReEnergizeUS and the young leaders organizing it are absolutely vital to building a movement strong enough to demand, achieve, and sustain the stabilization of the climate.
– Bill McKibben, organizer of Step It Up 2007
The number of Americans who are ready to take sweeping action to solve the climate crisis is nearing a critical mass. Now is our opportunity to build on the momentum of Step It Up, the Campus Climate Challenge, and other nationwide actions to get all the way there.
We intend for the next four months to be the climate summer that brings about the scale of leadership actually able to transform the way America produces and consumes energy.
We know we need to cut carbon at least 80 percent by 2050, and we know we can make that happen if we start making 2 percent reductions every year, starting right now. We have the technology, we've got the know-how, and we have the grassroots support. All we need is bold and decisive action from the leaders of our country.
In the tradition of past transformational social movements, youth organizers and citizens from across the country will come together this summer to ensure that such bold action is taken. We will work together with the citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire to raise awareness and build broad support for solutions to global warming, which will create millions of new jobs and lift people out of poverty, help make our nation more secure by ending our addiction to fossil fuel, and allow us to be patriotic about something other than war.
New Hampshire and Iowa provide a unique platform to lead the national dialogue on clean energy solutions. For ten weeks, we will work with local groups in each state to make action on global warming the top priority in people's consciousness, through town meetings, educational outreach, and hundreds of community-based discussions and presentations.
Then together, by the thousands, we will make a powerful call for change. From August 1-5, we will march from Ames to Des Moines in Iowa, and from Nashua to Concord in New Hampshire. Everywhere we go, we will call for what is needed and what is possible - 80 percent cuts in carbon by 2050, starting right now with 2 percent reductions a year.
Click here to join a march for climate action and make history this summer!
Your friends at the Sierra Student Coalition, Sierra Club, Campus Climate Challenge, New Hampshire Carbon Challenge, Clean Water Action, and Middlebury College Sunday Night Group.
