The following is a guest post by Annie Brown of Virginia. Annie helped organize a visit to the office of Senator Jim Webb as part of our August recess call to action, and then kindly agreed to write about her experience for our blog. -- Sarah

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of working with a wonderful group of people participating in 1Sky’s National Call to Action. Tommi Drum, Susan Davis, Don Davis, and I were 4 of the 1,700 people who signed up to participate in this action that encouraged constituents to have meetings with their Members of Congress to promote the 1Sky pledge.

The following is another guest post from Geraldine Carter, Co-Founder and Director of Climate Ride, a multi-day bicycle ride to raise money and awareness of climate change. Click here for more details.

We're now just one short month away from beginning Climate Ride, and exciting new developments arise each week. The latest news? Two of our support vans and our luggage bus will be powered by veggie oil!

It’s August and it’s definitely getting hot! As you all know, there has been an enormous response to our national call to action during the Congressional recess, which entails “turning up the heat” on your Member of Congress and demanding action for bold climate change policy.

The following is a guest post from Geraldine Carter, Co-Founder and Director of Climate Ride, a multi-day bicycle ride to raise money and awareness of climate change. Riders will bike from New York to Washington DC from September 20-24. Click here for more details.

Cyclists young and old are pedaling to raise awareness of climate change. Routes range from one-day rides to pan-America adventures, and each journey comes with its own flair. With so many impassioned and energetic people organizing tours of their own, we suspected there might be a greater interest in a large-scale bicycle ride to raise awareness of global warming. Turns out, our hunch was right.

You may remember last month I posted a guest blog from Leah Gourlie and Kelsey Stone, two avid bikers and climate activists who are trekking across America this summer to raise awareness about global warming and donations for 1Sky. Fortunately for us, Kelsey and Leah have been keeping a blog about their adventure, called Biking Across the Country, that you should definitely check out.

This is a guest blog from Ben Wessel, a 19-year old college student at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. -- Luis

Recently, I had the good fortune to visit the most amazing and pristine wilderness on the planet – the Arctic. Accompanied by 17 other young people from nine different countries, I was lucky enough to travel to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard as a part of a program entitled the Voyage for the Future.

The following is a guest blog from Leah Gourlie and Kelsey Stone, who will be biking across the country this summer to raise awareness about climate change, as well as donations for 1Sky. Here’s a great article about their trip from the Concord Journal. -- Luis

Hello! We’re Kelsey and Leah, two college students from the East Coast, and we're spending this summer biking across the USA. Both of us are very active people -- outdoors as well as for the environment.

I went down to the Hill yesterday with three of our brand-new summer interns to check out the Warner-Lieberman press conference. Although the event was billed as a press conference, it definitely felt more like a rally.

Our friend Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, is working on an ambitious lobbying effort to get something done about climate change on Capitol Hill—but to get it done, he needs your help!

Mother's Day weekend has come and gone, and we're happy to report that our call to action on climate change was a resounding success! Over the past three days, thousands of Americans concerned about global warming—including many of you—organized over 465 events all over the country!