Some plan to dress as endangered species.
Others will be carrying handmade fish or dipping their fingers in green ink.
But all activists expected to gather across the state and country Saturday are rallying for a common cause: Political leadership on global warming.
For National Day of Climate Action, groups in Howard and Anne Arundel counties and Baltimore City will push their elected officials to take action on global warming solutions.
The event builds on an April rally organized by activist group Step It Up, which resulted in 1,400 events in 50 states, according to the group.
In Howard, activists will be stamping their thumbs with green ink, said Ruth White, a member of the Sierra Club?s Howard County group.
Del. Elizabeth Bobo, D-Howard, a longtime environmental activist, will be among the speakers addressing the crowd.
“This is a push across the country to have people take a look at what they hope to do as individuals in their homes and in their cars and what they can do as advocates at the legislative level,” she said.
In Annapolis, City Councilman Sam Shropshire, D-Ward 7, the environmental activist pushing for a ban on plastic check-out bags in Annapolis, is headlining the event to be held in Newman Park.
Maryland Sierra Club activists in Baltimore City will carry handmade fish as they walk along the Inner Harbor to show Maryland?s vulnerability to rising sea levels.
“We have a lot of low-lying coasts and with sea levels rising and hurricanes, there is a lot of potential for flooding,” said Claire Miller, spokeswoman for the Maryland Sierra Club.
“We have a unique stake in this.”
IF YOU GO
» WHAT: Step It Up Rallies
» WHEN: noon Saturday
» WHERE: Barnes and Noble, Baltimore City?s Inner Harbor
» WHEN: 10 a.m. Saturday
» WHERE: Newman Park, Annapolis
» WHEN: 1 p.m. Saturday
» WHERE: Howard County Recreation and Parks building, 7120 Oakland Mills Road, Columbia
