Key Facts About Step it Up:

Step it Up was the largest the largest day of citizen action focusing on global warming in our nation’s history.

- This is a truly a viral grassroots movement, organized online through word of mouth, email outreach and the online community.

It is a nationwide campaign comprised of over 1400 actions held on April 14, 2007 as part of a National Day of Climate Action.

- The actions range from a rally of thousands in New York City, to a handful of scuba divers off the coast of Key West, to a community of senior citizens in Ohio holding a global warming awareness day.

- The rallies were in every corner of the country, in all 50 states, by people from all walks of life, which demonstrates the widespread demand for quick and dramatic change on the issue of global warming.

- All individuals, groups and organizations involved in these actions are hungry to do something big and they all agree on one thing: the need for substantial and rapid action.

Despite the varied backgrounds of the participants and the uniqueness of each event, they are united in delivering a critical message: For Congress to put America on a course to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

- This is less than a 2% reduction per year.

- While many Americans are choosing to make the switch to new conservation technologies in order to cut emissions, only bold leadership from Washington can drive the large scale changes needed to stave off the catastrophic effects of global warming.

- This is a wake-up call to legislators.  We want to show them that their constituents view global warming as the greatest threat facing our civilization today and are pleading for them to step up and take action.

As a truly global crisis, global warming will impact everyone.  However, the impact will be felt greatest among the most vulnerable of the world’s population. While global warming presents us with our most pressing challenge, it also presents our most inspiring opportunity.  We have an opportunity and a responsibility to ensure that our solutions to this crisis take these populations into account.

- Unpredictably shifting weather patterns leading to both droughts and stronger and more frequent storms combined with rising sea levels will dramatically affect the already scarce resources hundreds of millions rely on for the basics of life.  

- Stopping global warming will catalyze a new, green, industrial revolution which will impact workers across the globe.  We must protect both workers’ ability to provide for their families and also the long-term health of the environment