In the first installment of this series, I talked about the big difference that collecting handwritten letters can make in pushing our Senators to fight for a strong Senate climate bill. Few things are likely to leave more of an impression on an elected official than receiving a ribbon-festooned stack of hundreds of letters from constituents, all urging their leadership on a particular aspect of a particular piece of legislation.

Well, few things perhaps besides a stack of hundreds of letters from local leaders. After all, the strategy of our campaign is to do everything we can to demonstrate that there is a broad and diverse community of support for bold climate action among the Senators’ constituents. To do that we can mobilize the grassroots to show numbers