Maggie Gyllenhaal, one of the stars in this summer’s biggest blockbuster The Dark Knight, is teaming up with the organizations Brighter Planet and 1Sky to launch the “Climate Matters Video Contest.” The campaign will give Americans the chance to have their global climate change message seen by our next president and other political leaders.

Imagine if you had one minute in an elevator to tell our next President why climate change matters. What would you say?

1Sky and Brighter Planet are teaming up and we want you to film your message and upload it now to our new national video message competition -- Climate Matters: Inspire Your Next President! Winners will win cash prizes and their ads will be broadcast nationwide and delivered to the Presidential candidates and members of Congress.

Click here to visit the competition page on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/climatematters.

Al Gore and the U.S. EPA packed a double wallop last Thursday. The question is whether you and every one of your family and friends will get out from behind your computers and respond by breaking down the doors of Congress. Today.

Gore called on the U.S. to completely unplug from fossil fuel electricity within 10 years. We at 1Sky find it pathetic that Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future called this a "superstretch goal," implying that big goals are for dreamers. If Gore is right and "the survival of the USA as we know it is at risk" we need a superstretch goal and we need to rally around a fabulous vision of the future. Gore predicted Sharp's response. "To those who say 10 years is not enough time, I respectfully ask them to consider seriously what the world's scientists are telling us about the risks we face if we don't act in less than 10 years," he said.

The 1Sky Campaign made it into Media Mulch, a video roundup of the hottest environmental websites.

"My 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter can't vote. Nor can a million other kids across the state. So when we grownups cast our votes this fall, we're voting for our kids, too.

That's why I'm interested in where candidates in Washington stand on a top priority for me as a mom and for our children's future: climate change."

"Mothers and children aren't taking no for an answer when it comes to federal action on climate change. Only hours after the recent Lieberman-Warner climate legislation fizzled in the Senate, the new 1Sky campaign (www.1sky.org) delivered over one hundred murals to Congress that were created by grandparents, teachers, parents and children urging Congress to transcend politics as usual and get moving on climate policy."