Step It Up SF07: Lighten Up Your Ride! April 14, 2007

A Clean Cars Expo & Rally Celebrating Cutting Edge Transport for the Climate, all part of the national day of climate action. With Music, Demos, Action & The Latest in New Car Technologies for the Climate Challenge.
Working Assets • Mainstreet Moms (theMMOB.org)
April 14, 2007
Expo 11am - 3pm at Sports Basement Presidio, 610 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA
Optional Action 2pm caravan North on 101, circle Hummer Dealership, San Rafael

Calling all Plug-ins, Hybrids, Biodiesels, Bikes & Feet! Step It Up SF07:Lighten Up Your Ride is a day of climate action and info focused on reducing carbon emissions from transportation. Lighten Up Your Ride is one of more than 800 events around the country supporting a national call on Congress to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2050, through the Step It Up 2007 campaign.

Working Assets and Mainstreet Moms are hosting the San Francisco event, which includes an optional parade north on 101 to circle the Hummer dealership in San Rafael. The event is part car rally, part expo, and part action fair, featuring a demo of 100% electric cars, plug-in hybrids, diesel buses, and news from the bike coalitions. We will educate attendees on how to reduce their carbon footprints, and provide on-site letter-writing actions supporting 80% carbon emissions reductions by 2050.

We want car owners to join us and share the extraordinary technology that goes into supporting carbon reduction vehicles. Whether you have a biodiesel car and story to share, or you have a guzzler but want to know what's next, this gathering is for you. The no carbon foot print bicyclists from across the city will also be joining us to show their support for reducing carbon.

At the event, local environmental groups and other organizations will have information about their organizations and the work they are doing to help fight climate change.

The message of April 14th to Congress is that we are doing our part to reduce carbon emissions. Now it is your turn.

Action
Lighten Up Your Ride invites all attendees to join the 2pm rally heading north up 101 to surround the Hummer dealership in San Rafael with clean cars, and a picket line of polar bears. (Polar Bear masks and "Hey Hummers: How Much Can a Polar Bear?" posters provided on site.) Press: Polar Bears In Clean Cars Picket the Hummer. Photo op: Polar Bears standoff with rented Hummer.

Official Website: http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/446