PRESS RELEASE NATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION, 2007

When: Saturday November 3, 2:30pm - 4 pm

Where: Carrboro, NC, Town Commons

This Saturday, Nov. 3 the Carrboro Greenspace: Center for Community and Sustainability (carrborogreenspace.org) will be joining with various organizations and people throughout the country in asking our leaders to ‘Step It Up’ in the fight against global warming.

In the past few years, towns and citie throughout the country have actedwhere and when larger scales of governance have not. As the time frame for action is continually updated and becoming less and less, even leadership on the city and town scales are appearing to be too slow to keep up with
the change.

Starting at 2:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Commons, during the Really
Really Free Market, everyone including candidates for office are invited
to share with one another what we are already doing and what we plan on
doing to achieve the 97% of 1990 level reduction of Global Warming Gases
by 2030 – a requirement if we are to prevent the climate system from
reaching positive feedbacks that would render human influence in
mitigation insignificant.

Having this event during a Really Really Free Market serves to highlight
one of the many (i.e. The Carrboro Greenspace, The Recyclery and the CCGC
community garden) grassroots people-driven projects in Carrboro that are
contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions. These projects
demonstrate the power that people can have independent of initiatives
normally expected from official leaders.

“Carrboro has many exemplary grassroots people-driven projects that are
absolutely essential if we really want to tackle this enormous
problem—the main thing here is that change has to encompass all levels,
from reducing energy consumption at the individual or family level, to
changing the ways our communities and even our food systems are
organized. Its big, but its doable—the thing is we have to act now!” said Sammy Slade, local resident and activist.

Tags: community, culture, history, people

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