George Stern, the National Director for One Corps, sent this message out to One Corps members nationwide.  I wanted to make sure you saw it.  If you haven't already signed up for a One Corps chapter, just click here to find one near you!

When John Edwards says he wants to fight global warming, he doesn't stop there.

Last month, he laid out a bold and detailed energy plan that the League of Conservation Voters called, the Link "most comprehensive global warming plan of any presidential candidate to date" and announced that he would make his entire campaign carbon neutral.

Tomorrow, he's even taking it one step further and he's counting on all of us to join him.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 14th, John Edwards will be rallying with environmental activists at a Step It Up event in Fort Myers, Florida and speaking to the crowd about his plan to halt global warming. While it may be difficult for most of you to join John at the same rally, we all can join with him, and thousands of others nationwide, at one of the over 1300 events happening across the country.  (Follow this link to find and join a Step it Up! rally in your area.

These Step It Up events are part of a national effort by environmental groups to tell Congress that it's time to take action on climate change and cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.

But of course, John's asking us to go even one step further. Not only does he want us to rally around a plan for the future, he thinks it's critical that we take action now in our own communities. So it's important that we attend these Step It Up rallies on Saturday both to add our voice to the national call, and to invite folks we meet to join us the following weekend as part of our Earth Day "Reduce Your Carbon" efforts.

Our plan for Earth Day is simple, but powerful: We'll gather in public places or at local Earth Day events and hand out information to folks in our community about how to calculate and reduce their own personal carbon "footprint." We'll be collecting pledges from people agreeing to take specific action to reduce carbon emissions, ranging from changing light bulbs to adjusting driving habits. These are small actions, easy enough for any one of us to do. But they add up, and if we combine all our efforts nationwide we can take a giant step forward.

So, please visit our Global Warming Action page to:

Sign up to attend your local April 14th Step It Up rally to advocate for future change Sign up to host a local "Reduce Your Carbon" outreach event on April 22nd (Earth Day) to take action now.

At our Global Warming Action page you can also find downloadable fliers and sign up sheets that you can use at the Step It Up rally to recruit other environmental activists for your local John Edwards "Reduce Your Carbon" event on the 22nd.

As John always says, "Tomorrow Begins Today." We can't wait for Congress or our next President to begin taking action to stop global warming. We have to start now.

Together  we can achieve energy independence, stop global warming, and create a new energy economy.