This fall all political eyes will be focused on the handful of battleground states where experts say the presidential election will be determined and many other races will be decided. It is in these same states that the Sierra Club sill be focusing its efforts to educate and mobilize its members and sympathetic environmental voters. Sierra Club activists who live in those states will be at the center of the action and will have countless opportunities to participate ­ attending and organizing rallies, making phone calls, walking neighborhoods.

But what about the rest of us in the red and blue states - isn't there some way for us to be part of what is arguably the most important election for the environment in our life?

Yes. The answer is to get on the Road to Somewhere - either literally or figuratively.

Whether you want to help by making calls from the comfort of your home, organize a mailing party at your local group or chapter, or take a working vacation this fall to help with on-the-ground efforts in a nearby state, there is something to meet your needs in the Road to Somewhere program. The first volunteer-to-volunteer weekend has been scheduled for September 18-19, during which there will be an opportunity to travel to a nearby state to talk one-to-one with fellow (but infrequent voting) Sierra Club members.