On Saturday September 24, people all around the world are joining together for 350.org's Moving Planet, a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis.

In Seattle, 350 Washington State, Sierra Club, Cascade Bicycle Club, Climate Solutions, and many other community groups will gather at Lake Union Park for a rally, activities, and workshops to explore how to end our reliance on coal and oil while taking action on urgent campaigns in our region.

Moving Planet Seattle will have many activities on Saturday, September 24, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at South Lake Union inlcuding: Skate Like a Girl and stand-up paddleboard classes, climate action workshops led by Earth Ministry and the Sierra Club, the Dutch Bike Company conference bike, a Zumba flash mob led by teachers from Roosevelt, tasty food trucks, an electric vehicle rally, and much more.

Without using fossil fuels, thousands will travel to South Lake Union by sailboat, bus, bike, foot, stilts, skateboard, kayak, unicycle, stand-up paddleboard, carpool, wheelchair, and eBike.

Moving Planet Seattle is featuring a series of 20 stories of the different ways people are getting to Moving Planet.

One of these people is Ballardite Fulvio Casali.

As part of the Ballard Flotilla of kayaks and sailboats, Casali will be sailing to the September 24 Moving Planet gathering from the Ballard Marina where he has been living since 2000 aboard Soliton, a Catalina 34.

Casali has been sailing since he was 11 years old when his father taught him how to sail. A year later, Fulvio won his first racing trophy.

Casali trained as a merchant marine deck officer in genoa, Italy and has an unlimited captain's license issued from the Italian Coast Guard. He served as an officer in the Italian Navy, and was a sailing instructor at the naval academy in Livorno. Casali is certified as a sailing instructor by the American Sailing Association.

Currently, Casali sails with the Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, a company that transports fresh organic vegetables twice monthly throughout the summer and fall from a farm on the Olympic Peninsula to downtown Ballard by sail and electric car.

To learn more about Moving Planet, visit http://www.moving-planet.org/Seattle/.

We will feature more Ballardites and the different fossil-fuel free ways they are traveling to 350.org's Moving Planet as we get closer to September 24,