Steppin' up Locals join battle to end global warming - Greenwich Time: "Josie Merck, 59, shuffled through a crowd of more than 200 residents packed onto the green in front of Town Hall yesterday morning, a sea of faces beaming beneath hand-held signs that read 'Sacrifice For Your Children,' 'Stop Global Warming,' 'Congress, Work With Us' and 'Turn Off The Lights.'
'I think they agree that our government needs to do something, and do it now,' Merck, a Cos Cob resident and activist, said during Step It Up, a campaign designed to support a clean and sustainable national energy policy. 'I think we're seeing a lot of innovation now and our (state) attorney general had a lot to do with the citizen awareness we're seeing today.' ...."