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 Andrea Faste.

Wether she'll be traveling to the rally by canoe or bike, Ballard environmentalist Andrea Faste will be attending the Moving Planet rally filled with spirit and energy and bearing a gift.

In preparation of the event, Faste, a master craftswoman, has been making a giant 350 banner from salvaged sheets, and fabric scraps

Faste is known for her activist spirit, her work with Sustainable Ballard, and her wry Norwegian sense of humor. In 2009, she convinced dozens of her Sustainable Ballard neighbors to plant hundreds of pumpkins so they could collectively "squash global warming" on the 350.org day of action.

This year, Faste is the contact person and organizer of the Fun Flotilla coming from Ballard - a group of people traveling to the rally by canoe or kayak.

A Chinese scholar, Andrea worked several decades as an energy audit specialist.

She likes to creatively mix things up in art, music, and social justice.

At Moving Planet Seattle, Faste plans to join the Zumba flashmob and help out at the Million Letter March and SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound) tables.

"The rest of the world is trying to do something about burning fossil fuels. So must we," Faste said. "Let's look to the future with a carbon tac that rises over time and creates a fund that goes back to US citizens. We need a signal that the big polluters need to pay our damaged atmosphere, and a way to spur clean energy and jobs. Let's take some big steps forward at Moving Planet Seattle."

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.