The Trek to Re-Energize America, a bike ride from all across the U.S. this upcoming summer to D.C., is a natural and needed outgrowth of the youth climate movement. It began as a loose brainstorm session in the Northwest a year ago and has since spread to encompass 15 regional organizer in 14 states, acting locally to hold interest sessions, raise funds and grow the movement with an innovative approach, building a movement from the seat of a bike.
Let’s all remember how the Energy Action Coalition, Step it Up, Focus the Nation and so many other great projects started up. With a small core of committed individuals who, with few funds or leverage, reached out to established partners and the public to be hugely effective in moving the U.S. closer to acting on climate change. They came at it with fresh approaches and fresh faces, shaking up the established environmental world. They gave youth and the public at large a place and a movement to plug into and get involved beyond signing an online petition.
The Trek is attempting to do just that, again. Riders will be departing from states across the U.S., having conversations all across the country about clean energy, transportation, green jobs and sustainable farming, and helping to move our country beyond fossil fuels and into the new century. By giving new leaders a chance to plug in, the Trek is fostering the movement in an innovative way aimed at talking with all Americans, in their communities about their issues. And when we get to D.C., we’ll let our legislators know how hungry this country is for a clean future.
Join us. See the country we’re trying to save and the people who can make it happen.
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