Partnership aims to get K-8 complex in means to abate all-around warming. By adjustment with organizations that accept complete acknowledged bounded models like Cool The Earth, The Climate Project can ability added humans and actualize drive exponentially. The altitude crisis is an burning affair that affects everyone. Cool The Earth is an archetype of aborigine captivation at the grassroots akin which can accomplish a aberration if it comes to attention our planet We are aflame to accomplice with this celebrated alignment in our action adjoin all-around warming Our school-based affairs offers families easy-to-take accomplishments to abatement activity burning and increases borough assurance in altitude change solutions. Coupled with The Climate Project's message, we feel our affairs has the abeyant to serve as a agitator for axis communities above the country into added energy-efficient and energy-conscious consumers.
Nashville, Tennessee -- The Climate Project, an all-embracing non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore, is announcement its affiliation in an educational beat adventure with Cool The Earth, an alignment that inspires accouchement grades K-8 and their families to crop simple accomplishments at home to abate the blackmail of all-around warming.
"By adjustment with organizations that accept complete acknowledged bounded models like Cool The Earth, The Climate Project can ability added humans and actualize drive exponentially. The altitude crisis is an burning affair that affects everyone. Cool The Earth is an archetype of aborigine captivation at the grassroots akin which can accomplish a aberration if it comes to attention our planet," says Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project.
"We are aflame to accomplice with this celebrated alignment in our action adjoin all-around warming," says Carleen Cullen, co-founder and controlling administrator of Cool The Earth. "Our school-based affairs offers families easy-to-take accomplishments to abatement activity burning and increases borough assurance in altitude change solutions. Coupled with The Climate Project's message, we feel our affairs has the abeyant to serve as a agitator for axis communities above the country into added energy-efficient and energy-conscious consumers."
For Carleen Cullen, who co-founded Cool The Earth with her husband, the affiliation with The Climate Project is decidedly allusive because she was originally aggressive to anatomy her alignment afterwards examination the Gore blur An Inconvenient Truth. Concerned for the approaching of her accouchement and approaching generations, she launched Cool The Earth at her children's elementary academy in Kentfield, CA in the bounce of 2007. Within two years the apprentice alignment has been able to animate parents and leaders in the association to aggrandize the affairs to 150 schools and adolescence groups throughout the Bay Area.
Cool The Earth is aswell accustomed to advertise this anniversary that they accept accustomed a "Clean Air" accolade from "Breathe California" for contributions in the across of accessible acquaintance and education. Carleen Cullen is a contempo almsman of the Jefferson Award, a affairs of the American Institute for Public Service. Additionally, Cool The Earth has accustomed awards from the City of Sonoma, The Pacific Sun Newspaper, and has garnered absorption in Parents Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Treehugger.com, The Huffington Post, Marin Magazine, The Marin Independent Journal., The Wall St. Journal, and Kiwi Magazine.
The affiliation hopes to ability 250 schools, 100,000 students, and 200,000 parents during the 2009-2010 academy year.
About Cool The Earth
Through its extracurricular program, Cool The Earth (CTE) educates K-8 acceptance about all-around abating and provides them the accoutrement to actuate their accomplished ancestors to crop simple accomplishments to abate their residential carbon emissions. The rapidly accretion program, active in over 150 schools and adolescence groups, has now been amenable for affective over 37,000 energy-saving actions, taken by over 25,000 families, and eliminating about 30 actor pounds of carbon.
About The Climate Project
The Climate Project (TCP) is an all-embracing non-profit alignment founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore. With its all-around address in Nashville, Tennessee, TCP began operations in June 2006 with the mission of accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis in the United States and abroad. TCP consists of a able agents and added than 2,600 volunteers common who accept been alone accomplished by Gore to present a adaptation of the accelerate appearance featured in the Academy Award-winning blur An Inconvenient Truth. In 2009, TCP broadcast its mission with a new charge to advancement and activism to action the altitude crisis.
For More Information about Cool The Earth, contact:
Jenny Jedeikin
Communications Director
Cool The Earth
1-800 474-9084 ext 6
www.CooltheEarth.org
For More Information about The Climate Project, contact:
Carrie Criado
Communications Director
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37203
832-576-6207
www.theclimateproject.org
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