Scholars mostly of communications but also various environmental sciences provide local perspectives on the 2007 national Step It Up campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by 80% by 2050. That campaign has evolved into the 350 Movement. Bill McKibben, pillar of both efforts, contributes the forward and an interview. Other sections cover rhetorical framing, modes of organizing, and practices of citizenship. Among the topics are moving climate change from My Space to my place, demonstrative protest rhetoric and the Boston campaign, social-movement organizations as collective resistance, challenges and possibilities for just climate-change coalitions, image politics in the Pacific Northwest, the role of natural scientists in environmental movements, and challenges of scale and the strategic. Other reports come from Texas, Utah, and Michigan. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
