This past Saturday, Brandeis students joined Bentley University students and members of the Waltham community for Moving Planet, an international day to put demands for climate action into motion and encourage the world to move beyond fossil fuels, according to the Moving Planet website.

For Brandeis students, the day included a meet-up in Waltham with speakers and music, followed by a bike ride or commuter rail trip into Boston to join a larger, more cohesive rally, all in the effort to move the planet toward a clean energy future.

Moving Planet drew participation from several members of the Brandeis community, including undergraduates, graduate students and professors, who contributed everything from designing posters to giving speeches.

It was powerful to "come together and hear each other's stories, share experiences, and bond with other people who feel the same way as you [in terms of environmental issue]," wrote Lisa Purdy '14, a member of Brandeis' Moving Planet planning committee, in an email to the Justice.

The event was intended to highlight four main demands that revolve around the idea of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to below 350 parts per million, or the "safe upper limit" of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, according the Moving Planet website.

As described on the website, the demands outline the creation of science-based policies to get the world back to 350 ppm, a transition to cutting carbon emission to zero and lifting the rights of people and nature over the rights of polluters."

Prof. Eric Olson (Heller), who was both an organizer and participant of the event, described the uniqueness of Moving Planet in an email to the Justice.

"I have been part of three climate rallies of this sort in recent years, and this one had a very clever feature: in addition to gatherings in the individual towns around Boston, participants were encouraged to converge in downtown Boston later in the day to join a central rally," he wrote.

Moving Planet provided an opportunity for involvement for all levels of environmental supporters. Sarah Schneider '13 said that the event simply piqued her interest.

"I think this is a really great concept to show my support," she said in an interview with the Justice. "I think it's really cool that people are coming from all over Boston to show their support."

Ryan Nicoll '14 had a more fixed agenda, hoping to remind people about the importance of natural transportation.

"I think we've lost touch with moving as a means for transportation. I think we [forget] that our bodies are meant to take up places," he said in an interview with the Justice.

Participants were given suggestions of modes of transportation to get into Boston, either by commuter rail or by bicycle, and Purdy wrote that she was happy with the amount of people who chose to pedal their way into the city.

"I was extremely pleased when 9 people rode all 15 miles into Boston that day, one of whom was a Waltham resident who had heard about the event," she wrote.

Schneider summed up the general feeling of the event.

"It's important to show that there are lots of people who think it's important to move forward [and take environmental action]," she said.