Yesterday, over a hundred people crowded before Nashua's City Hall to kick off the March to ReEnergize New Hampshire, a walk from Nashua to Concord calling for national leadership on real global warming solutions and a clean energy economy. After today, only 3 days to go until masses of Granite Staters converge on the State House lawn to send this message.

After walking from Nashua to Litchfield yesterday, the marchers will finish today's (Thursday's) journey at Bronstein Park in Manchester at 7pm, to music by the Powerkegs and speeches by business and community leaders. Join us at the park tonight! Directions may be found here.

On the steps of City Hall yesterday, addressing the marchers were Bernie Streeter, the Republican Mayor of Nashua; Martha Fuller-Clark, a Democratic State Senator; and both Rev. Fred Small and Rev. Margaret Bullit-Jonas, two co-organizers of the Massachusetts Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue this past spring.

Among the marchers, both a wheelchair and a baby stroller were spotted; a toddler, teenagers, college students, and baby boomers, all both alarmed by the danger of global warming and inspired by the opportunity to build a prosperous, clean energy economy. All sang, drummed, and cheered as excitement grew.

Read The Nashua Telegraph's two stories on the March to ReEnergize New Hampshire here and here:

The march traveled by foot to Litchfield's Nesenkeag Farm, where we prepared ourselves for a talk by Bill McKibben and Nesenkeag owner and farmer, Eero Ruutila. We sat in a circle one hundred people wide to listen and talk about why we had come together. Bill talked about the hope that we all share - the possibility of a new future, built on clean and just jobs in a green energy economy. Eero talked about his experiences farming Nesenkeag Organic and about how he has had to struggle with a changing climate that brings floods and new insects.

We, as Bill pointed out, can make a world that is more just, more community minded, more humane than any generation past has seen. The truth that Eero presented is real and shows why we must take action, but we are walking motivated not just by the moments of fear of what could be, but of many, many more moments of hope for what will be.

Yesterday, much of our focus was on what we each can do to address global warming in our own lives. Tonight in Manchester, we'll focus on what we can and are doing in the business community. As the march gathers momentum, we're gearing up to make the largest call yet for national action on what will be seen in the history books as one of the defining challenges of the 21st century.

For info on the the march or the culminating rally on Sunday, August 5th at noon at the State House in Concord, click here:

Onward and upward!