PRESS ADVISORY: FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Environmental Activists dressed
as polar bears on bikes search for rapidly disappearing ice while demanding
clean renewable energy, conservation, and greener polices from banks and
corporations
“Ride a Bike! Save a Bear!” declare polar bears.
Contacts:
Benjamin Shepard – 917 586 7952
Monica Hunken 917-399-7563
What: Polar Bear Earth Ride
When:
Sunday, April 29th at Union Square
Starts:
1:30pm, Union Square Park south –Riders dressed as polar bears will
dance and shout and ride and look for ice among the warm spring time.
New
York, NY (April 29th, 2012) – This Sunday, April 29th, polar bear supporters --many
dressed as bears themselves--will join a Polar Bear Earth Ride organized by Time’s Up!, a
direct action environmental group. They will call attention to the need
to protect the green community spaces that gardens provide and to alert New Yorkers of the
dangers of the impending Spectra Pipeline in the West Village.
"The polar bears aren't the only ones who
will suffer from climate change, as the arctic warms the whole world will feel the
disruptions in our weather; hurricanes, flooding, heat waves, earthquakes,” noted Times Up!
volunteer Monica Hunken, the organizer for the ride. “ The Earth is
sending us a strong message! Ride a bike! Demand renewable energy and greener polices from banks and the rest of
those climate-killing corporations!"
“In
the midst of the warmest weather in memory, we are all left to wonder what
happened to winter?” explained Benjamin Shepard, a
Times Up volunteer who will dress like a polar bear this Sunday. "We
all have to do whatever we can to help raise awareness about climate change and the many species it is driving to
extinction, including our beloved polar bears."
Group highlights six steps to save polar bears
and humans: 1) take action, 2) buy organic and local, 3) use less packaging and no bottled water, 4) ditch fossil fuels, 5)
energy proof your home, and 6) ride a bicycle.
See
last year's Times Up’s Polar Bear Ride.
TIMES
UP! is a non-profit environmental group that has been using educational
outreach and direct action for the last 20 years to promote a more sustainable,
less toxic city.
www.times-up.org
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