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 Lisa Quinn. Quinn is the Executive Director of Feet First, will ride the bus. At Moving Planet Seattle, Quinn will lead an hour long Lake to Bay Loop Walk.
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.
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 Lisa Quinn.
Quinn is the Executive Director of Feet First, an advocacy group promoting walkable communities for better health, transportation, environment, and pleasure.
Living a car-free lifestyle, Quinn bike commutes six miles to work from Ballard to Downtown through the Locks and past Myrtle Edwards Park. For the Moving Planet Seattle gathering she'll likely take the bus so she can bring Feet First maps to share.
At Moving Planet Seattle, Quinn will lead an hour long Lake to Bay Loop Walk. Feet First will also host a table where people can make buttons about how they will move without fossil fuel in Seattle.
But before Moving PLanet Seattle, Feet First celebrates PARK(ing) Day on September 16, a day to take over street parking spaces for parks.
"When we invite cars to our communities, with free parking, large streets and highways, we decrease the opportunities for people to walk," Quinn said. "Promoting walkable communities, for me, is a simple and eloquent way to engage in our space and place where we live."
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.
