In addition to our regular bloggers (see right sidebar), we are inviting a few Climate Riders to share their perspectives. Today’s piece is is by Jana Green, or J.J., who is a student at the University of Oregon and also participated in Cycle the Rockies: Energy and Climate Change in Montana. There is nothing like traveling by bike. The connection to your surroundings is unbroken by rumbling engines, a steel box, climate control, and the imported power that cars run on. My first experience of traveling by bike was to cycle 725 miles through Montana. There I developed a closeness . . .(more...)

In addition to our regular bloggers (see right sidebar), we are inviting a few Climate Riders to share their perspectives. Today’s piece is from Lauren Casey, who is joining Climate Ride with her mother, Susannah (both shown on the right). Susannah will celebrate her 60th birthday on the third day of the ride. I grew up in a small town in northwest Montana, about 60 miles away from Glacier National Park. I attribute much of my passion for tackling climate change to the summers I spent there, fishing and hiking with my family learning biology, ecology, ethics, and the power of a personal relationship with the systems that sustain us. Now I live in San Francisco, and work on energy and . . . (more...)