For All the Grandchildren - the Walk
Successfully completed - August 29, 2009!
September - MNN Photograph Essay:
August 29 - NYTimes article
August 16 - Watertown 7now
August 7 - Syracuse - news10now
August 3 - Binghamton Fox40 TV
Late August - Montrose, PA independentweekender
July 11 - Article in Carlisle Sentinel, 7/9/09
August 7, LaFayette, NY - 941 miles walked - the end is in sight
June 29, Strasburg, Virginia - 550 miles walked, more than halfway to Canada! -
June 3 -
Online news article:
New River Valley - it works!
New on April 11 -
News articles:
The Picayune Item
The Tuscaloosa News
See Greta's progress Walk completed on August 29, 2009. 1150 miles walked.
Welcome to this website.
My name is Greta Browne and I am here to recruit you to take up the challenge of Climate Change. In late October I became profoundly disturbed by what I was learning about Global Warming and its potential threats to life on this planet. I needed to do something radical in response, something that would alter my own life, because it seemed absurd to go on as usual.
As a result, I am taking a long walk. I see it as a meditation, a prayer, and an action that will call attention to the issues of climate change and challenge people along the way to enact changes that will make them part of the solution instead of the problem. I am dedicating my walk to my three grandchildren and to all the world's children, because their lives will feel the impact of what we accomplish or fail to accomplish in the next three to five years. (See my What we can do page.)
I started my walk from New Orleans to Rouses Point, NY, along Route 11, on March 14. (See Map on Page 3.) On March 8, after visits to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Houston and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Galveston, Texas, I started out for New Orleans in my gypsy wagon - a small 1982 TranStar motor home - and on Saturday, March 14, I took my first steps on Route 11.
As of May 13 I have walked 296 miles and am approaching Knoxville, Tennessee. You can read about my Climate Walk and see photographs that I took along the way, on my blog: forallthegrandchildren
I would welcome people to walk with me at any point of the WALK, for a day, a week, or a month. And I could really use a driver for the gypsy wagon - someone, an artist, writer or graduate student, who had her own project to work on would be ideal because the driving will be only 15 miles or so a day. Call me in the evening at 832-971-6658 if you're interested.
Please check my blogs:
forallthegrandchildren
climatechangechildren (child friendly)
Successfully completed!
Please join us at 9 AM on Saturday at 5th and Hamilton in Allentown - you'll see where we are when you reach the intersection. Or catch up with us at any point along the way: we will walk on the sidewalks along Hamilton and Hanover Sts. in Allentown, and West Broad St. in Bethlehem. Our exact route through downtown Bethlehem hasn't been established yet, but we will probably cross the New St. Bridge and end up in front of the Wildflower Cafe on the south side.
The organization that originated this event, 350.org, requests that we take a photograph including a graphic representation of the number 350 to document our event. We may do this in front of our congressman's office on W. Broad St. where we will also leave literature requesting his support of a strong Climate Treaty.
We will have T-shirts (med & lg) with the words WALKING FOR THE CLIMATE to lend to participants for the event. The forecast is for temperatures in the 50s with a 70% chance of showers that day. Please dress so that you can slip a T-shirt over your outer clothes.
We recommend that you consider taking the bus, LANTA, to Allentown, and maybe even back home. Using public transportation is one of the ways to lower our carbon footprint.
Call Greta at 610-865-9050 for more information.
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