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Climate Rise Interactive Photobook
April 22, 2020
SIGN UP HERE FOR VIRTUAL RISE 2021! Scroll through the experience of Virtual Climate Rise which took place on April 18, 2020! For the best viewing experience on a desktop or laptop, please allow the photobook to fully load before viewing. Once fully loaded, you can select widescreen (arrows at bottom right) and then you […]
Phoebe Moore riding to fight climate despair
September 10, 2019
Meet Phoebe Moore, the captain of Team Moms Biking Off Steam. She is a clinical psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders in children, teen, and adults. She has been deeply concerned about climate change and knows that we all need to take action. As a mom and child psychologist, she has chosen to take on […]
A Tribute to Mike Nagy, Climate Rider, who will ride with us in spirit
August 27, 2019
Recently, we very suddenly lost a beloved Climate Rider to cancer. Mike Nagy was planning to join us on the Bar Harbor to Boston Ride this fall. Mike was kind and always had a smile. We were fortunate to ride with him in 2017 on the Blue Ridge to Washington DC Ride and again in […]
Team Variano – Linking the cause to a family bike tour through Europe
August 15, 2019
Creating family memories with a purpose-driven bike tour When the three of the four Variano’s (Dana, Denyse, & Vinny, minus Dana’s brother Evan who couldn’t make it) decided to do a family bike trip in Europe, they wanted to go the extra mile and raise some cash for a charity working to end traffic violence […]
Sara Tolchin is riding 300 miles in 4 days on Highway 1!
July 3, 2019
Sara Tolchin is taking on the challenge of riding 304 miles in just four days! She’s heading out her front door on July 4th, 2019 to raise money for the Climate Ride cause and her beneficiary choices 350.org and Climate One in her fight to help our planet. We took the chance to pick her […]
Catherine Bock
June 13, 2019
Climate Ride California Central Coast will be Catherine Bock’s 11th evet in 9 years. What keeps her coming back? She says that in part, it’s the inspiring people she’s met. Also, the rides prepare her to continue her climate activism, something she has been committed to She committed to preserving nature after reading Rachel Carson’s […]
Meet Quintin Mecke on Climate Ride Bears Ears
May 2, 2019
We caught up with Quintin Mecke, who is embarking on his second Climate Ride mountain biking tour this year! Hey Q, why did you sign up? “How could I not participate? 🙂 I love cycling, I love people, I love the planet and I am a firm believer that actions (especially when on two wheels!) […]
Bears Ears and the Importance of Purpose
May 2, 2019
For Molly Bosted, the memory of her son Nelson inspired her to participate in Climate Ride Bear Ears. When he passed away in November of 2017, she made a silent pledge to live a meaningful life in his name. A few years before, he had taken a road trip through Moab and visited Arches National […]
Running for the Planet
April 22, 2019
Julie Sigoloff’s love of nature started early at summer camp. Unlike most campers though, she had the fortune of growing up in a family who owns Camp Thunderbird in Bemidji, Minnesota beside Lake Plantagenet. Her time there laid the seed for a life-long connection to the environment and her commitment to take action on climate […]
Community Leader Awards 2019 – Nicole Ver Kuilen, Founder of FORREST STUMP
April 11, 2019
Meet Nicole Ver Kuilen, a 2019 Climate Ride Community Leader. Thanks to the Climate Ride Annual Fund supporters we have the opportunity to award a spot on Climate Ride to extraordinary young people who are blazing a path of transformational leadership in their communities. “I am beyond honored to be chosen for one of the […]
Robert Vogel is riding for his life
April 10, 2019
Robert Vogel’s story is about riding for health – both his own personal health and the health of the planet. Personally, Robert finds that cycling seems to be helping him beat cancer – he’s now surpassed the mortality statistics for more than 15 months. For the planet, he likes to believe that the way we tend […]
Andrew Loewinger is pushing through the Delaware hills to Climate Ride Cuba!
March 13, 2019
Andrew Loewinger has three sons and is thinking of the world he wants them to live in whenever he decides to do another Climate Ride. He’s about to take on that challenge for the fifth time, on Climate Ride Cuba, because he truly believes that environmental challenges are among the greatest threats to our planet […]