The Great March for Climate Action has teamed up with auction site Charitybuzz.com to offer some one-of-a-kind items with proceeds going to support the Climate March. These items include a vegan lunch with Ed Begley, Jr., a courtside ticket to either a Los Angeles Clippers or Lakers game with actress/director Penny Marshall and a photo shoot with “The Griswolds”, Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo. “The most important and courageous journeys begin with taking that first step, together, in the right direction,” Begley said. “The Great Continue reading →

For Immediate Release May 23, 2013 – 6:00 am CDT CONGRESSMAN BRALEY ENDORSES CLIMATE MARCH Des Moines, IA – Iowa Representative Bruce Braley has been racking up his own long list of endorsements as of late, but in a bold move to show his support for the Great March for Climate Action, he endorsed the effort today. Braley is the first member of Congress to officially support the eight-month, 3000-mile march to raise awareness for the need to take action on the climate crisis. Braley Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 2, 2013 – 10:00 a.m. CST Contact: Ed Fallon at 858-35-MARCH or ed@climatemarch.org Climate March to Cross Keystone Pipeline Route In response to recent oil spills in Arkansas and Minnesota, organizers of the Great March for Climate Action today announced that the March of 1,000 “climate patriots” will travel through Nebraska, crossing the proposed route of the Keystone Pipeline. The March will leave the West Coast on March 1, 2014 and arrive in Washington, DC in November, 2014. It will Continue reading →

Climate change is not simply an issue. It’s a crisis – the single biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. And climate change is not a crisis that might happen sometime in the future. It is happening now, and it demands an immediate and impassioned response. Consider some of the facts: * Regarding the Keystone Pipeline and the Canadian tar sands oil it would transport, James Hansen points out that those tar sands “contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in Continue reading →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                 For more information, contact: Wednesday, March 6, 2013                           Ed Fallon at ed@climatemarch.org Former Iowa Lawmaker Organizing Largest March in US History On Friday, March 1 in Des Moines, former Iowa lawmaker Ed Fallon announced the start of a campaign to build greater momentum for action on climate change. The Great March for Climate Action is now in the early stages of recruiting 1,000 people to walk across America, leaving the West Coast on March 1, Continue reading →