Author: Caeli Quinn

You like to bike and contribute to your community. You’ve already signed up for Climate Ride or you’re thinking about it. Have you thought about getting your colleagues involved by starting a team? Many companies offer matching grants and other ways to support their employees who are giving back to their communities. More than 40 […]

Meet Climate Ride California’s top fundraiser and San Franciscan, Jenny Shu. As of 9/7/12 she surpassed $10,500 in funds raised – making her the top fundraiser in Climate Ride history. Jenny selected these Climate Ride beneficiaries to be the recipients of a grant: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Natural Resources Defense Council, Carbon War Room, and […]

Some families play soccer together, some play baseball, for the Jolly family, well, they’re all about bikes! As members of this cycling family Amy Jolly and her 13-year-old daughter Jazzy are looking forward to pedaling Climate Ride California this September and this impressive mother-daughter pair will be bringing more than their committment to the bike […]

From fracking to bicycle advocacy, people have many reasons to participate in Climate Ride. Some NYC-DC 2012 riders shared theirs with us during the ride.

Great things are right in front of us and it only takes the courage to move toward them to discover a whole new world. Climate Ride was like this for Ashley Hunt-Martorano the first time and this year she's coming back for more!

A high school environmental science teacher chooses Climate Ride to demonstrate activism for her students, taking the ride into her classroom… After years of living sustainably and teaching environmental science to high school students, first-time Climate Rider Rose Chaffee-Cohen decided it was time to do more. After reading and learning more about Climate Ride through […]

    For Deb Janes, rider #320, Climate Ride California 2010 was a life-changing experience that brought her back for more on the 2011 California ride.                     A professional fundraiser and professional vegetarian chef, Deb found that Climate Ride was just what she needed to make […]

  Lulu Waks, a Stewardship Technician for the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, rode out of the Climate Ride day three wrap-up meeting last night on a brand spanking new two-wheeled cruiser courtesy of the fine folks at New Belgium Brewing. Lulu raised $4,700.00 during the time period in August when Climate […]

An Exercise in Extreme Fundraising Pays Off. A late night epiphany caused Team Mightybytes rider Joy Burke to enlist for her second Climate Ride of 2011, no small challenge considering said epiphany occurred mere weeks before the California ride. “I can do this,” she told her teammates with confidence and set forth raising Climate Ride’s […]

by Carolyn Szczepanski  I hate goodie bags.  My least favorite part of a charity or cause ride is trying to politely avoid taking the plastic bag full of coupons, tschotskes and sporty swag.  I already have a cabinet overflowing with water bottles and a library of reflective leg bands, including one that works like a slap […]