1) Last day to register for only $60!

Register before May 1st and get $40 off your registration fee. Get online, get your friends, and sign up! When you register before May 1st, it helps everyone. It helps you plan, get a jumpstart on your training and fundraising, and get the word out to more folks.  After May 1st, the registration fee returns to $100. Register for Climate Ride here!

2)  Clean Air-Cool Planet and Climate Ride Build Youth Leadership in Northeast:

Thanks to the donations of our 2008 Climate Riders, Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is charging ahead, providing remarkable educational opportunities for young climate leaders.  Climate Riders helped Clean Air-Cool Planet to provide competitive, real-world Fellowships for eight college and university students in the Northeast.

These students worked on a variety of challenging and catalytic projects, including inventorying greenhouse gas emissions in southwestern New Hampshire, creating a New York State climate change toolkit for community governments, and customizing a version of CA-CP’s Climate Change Backpack® educational tool for young people in the Mid-Atlantic states.

That’s not all! CA-CP also applied Climate Ride funding toward its after-school program on climate change, a six-unit course designed for public school students in grades four through six.  Learn more here.

3)  Featured Climate Ride Partner:  Solar Energy Industries Association

Did you know that the Earth receives more energy from the sun in one hour than is used in the entire world in one year?  Get to know SEIA, the leading national trade association for the solar energy industry.  SEIA work to expand markets, strengthen research and development, remove market barriers and improve education and outreach for solar energy professionals. Learn how solar energy can help drive our economic engine here.

4) Why does COP15 matter?  Why is there a countdown to Copenhagen?

The Embassy of Denmark is the presenting sponsor of Brita Climate Ride ‘09 and the host of this year’s COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen this December.

This conference is considered to be the last chance to devise an international agreement in time to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.  These UN conferences have shown the potential for countries to reach collective agreements swiftly or to reach unfortunate stalemates.  According to the Danish Goverment, their goal is that “the COP15 conference in Copenhagen will result in an ambitious global agreement incorporating all the countries of the world”.  Find out why COP15 is called the “crucial conference” here.