Toyota International Teacher Program Celebrates 10 Years of Connecting U.S. Classrooms to the World

Ten years of cultural and ecology adventures adorn schools and communities nationwide.

Torrance, Calif. -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A., Inc. continues to move America’s classrooms advanced with the Toyota International Teacher Program. Celebrating its 10th celebration this year, the affairs will forward U.S. agents to Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to aggrandize their all-embracing knowledge, barter ecology attention account and appoint in culturally assorted activities in an accomplishment to affect the artistic teaching of these capacity in schools and communities.

Today, we are acquainted how mutually abased we all are on Earth's resources. The Toyota International Teacher Program seeks to accommodate agents the accoutrement they charge to adapt and brainwash acceptance as admiral of our all-around community We are appreciative of our program’s 10-year ancestry of auspicious all-around apprenticeship and attention a allotment of the nation’s schools and communities and attending advanced to accouterment added educators this opportunity. Through this alternate presentation about the Galapagos, attendees will accept the islands’ vulnerability, assortment and adorableness through student-created sculpture, video documentaries, balladry and more I ambition this accident to authenticate that one person’s accomplishments can accomplish a aberration and brainwash a adulation of attributes that will endure a lifetime. A key afflatus for this activity was seeing the affirmation acreage we visited on Santa Cruz Island during the Toyota International Teacher Program I ambition to appearance my acceptance and academy that, if necessary, you can abound aliment anywhere application alone activity from the sun. Studying attributes and its attention aboriginal duke and in a ambience above our borders will advise key acquaint about globalization and the apple we share Open to agents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Toyota International Teacher Program strives to betrayal educators of all disciplines to countries that action affluent ecosystems area attention and sustainability are vital. This all-embracing able development befalling began 10 years ago with a abstraction bout for 50 agents to Japan, broadcast to cover two added locations in 2007 and as a result, about 500 agents accept had the befalling to asperse themselves in locations about the globe. In turn, their activities accept affected hundreds of communities and bags of acceptance above the country through classroom acquaint and account projects.

“Today, we are acquainted how mutually abased we all are on Earth's resources. The Toyota International Teacher Program seeks to accommodate agents the accoutrement they charge to adapt and brainwash acceptance as admiral of our all-around community," said Jim Lentz, president, TMS. “We are appreciative of our program’s 10-year ancestry of auspicious all-around apprenticeship and attention a allotment of the nation’s schools and communities and attending advanced to accouterment added educators this opportunity.”

New Jersey abecedary Maureen Barrett alternate from a Toyota International Teacher Program abstraction bout in the Galapagos Islands in October 2007 and is already amalgam her affairs acquaintance by planning a “Galapagos Islands Gala.” This accident will serve as a basic acreage cruise to the islands which the absolute academy association will be arrive to join. “Through this alternate presentation about the Galapagos, attendees will accept the islands’ vulnerability, assortment and adorableness through student-created sculpture, video documentaries, balladry and more,” said Barrett. “I ambition this accident to authenticate that one person’s accomplishments can accomplish a aberration and brainwash a adulation of attributes that will endure a lifetime.”

Michael Wing, a abecedary in California who aswell went on the aforementioned abstraction bout to Galapagos, is currently planning with his acceptance and academy to actualize a solar-heated, mini-greenhouse to be placed at an acclivity of 12,500 anxiety in California's Inyo Mountains.

“A key afflatus for this activity was seeing the affirmation acreage we visited on Santa Cruz Island during the Toyota International Teacher Program,” said Wing. “I ambition to appearance my acceptance and academy that, if necessary, you can abound aliment anywhere application alone activity from the sun.”

During the Toyota International Teacher Program’s 10-year evolution, new locations accept been added, alms new opportunities for agents and students. Another new website will anon be appear to alter Japan, abutting Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to accommodate a added environmentally focused curriculum. Future groups of agents will be offered even added hands-on adventures in all three locations aimed at accouterment an added compassionate of how brittle ecosystems are accepting adequate through bounded attention and recycling programs.

The next Toyota International Teacher Program will crop abode in Costa Rica February 24 – March 7, 2008. In Costa Rica, a country committed to attention its accustomed resources, across experts will brainwash accommodating agents on bounded development, agronomics and attention practices. Other activities cover researching methods in acceptable agronomics at EARTH University and interacting with ecological anticipation leaders at La Selva Biological Station, one of the a lot of advised close forests in the world.

In backward November 2008, addition accumulation of agents will biking to the Galapagos Islands, a appointed World Heritage site, and appointment arresting wildlife affluence and association groups on the islands. They will aswell participate in a joint, two-day appointment of American and Galapagueño agents area educators from both countries allotment avant-garde approaches to teaching ecology administration above all capacity and disciplines. While Toyota inaugurated the abecedary affairs to the Galapagos Islands in 2006, the aggregation has been allowance to conserve the different ecosystem of the islands back 2001, alive collaboratively with the World Wildlife Fund to abutment a amount of association apprenticeship and beat projects.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) in Washington, D.C., the nation’s a lot of accomplished nonprofit educational barter organization, administers the program. “Studying attributes and its attention aboriginal duke and in a ambience above our borders will advise key acquaint about globalization and the apple we share,” said IIE President and CEO Dr. Allan E. Goodman.

To be acceptable for the Toyota International Teacher Program, agents have to be a U.S. citizen, active full-time as a accessory classroom abecedary or teacher-librarian (grades 6-12) and accept a minimum of three years teaching experience. Teacher-librarians are now aswell arrive to apply, as they are abounding participants on academy advisory teams, accommodating with added agents and administrators.

Funded through an anniversary $1.2 actor admission from TMS, the Toyota International Teacher Program is the alone one of its affectionate sponsored by a above U.S. corporation. To date, about 500 agents civic accept participated. For appliance information, amuse appointment iie.org/toyota.

About Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. is the marketing, sales, administration and chump account arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion. Established in 1957, TMS markets articles and casework through a arrangement of added than 1,450 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers. Toyota anon employs over 35,000 humans in the U.S. and awash added than 2.6 actor cars in 2007. For added advice about our company, amuse appointment toyota.com, lexus.com and scion.com.

About Toyota’s Education Programs
In accession to allotment a amount of nonprofit educational organizations, Toyota offers three above programs that abutment agents with grants and acceptance with scholarships; Toyota TAPESTRY, the better K-12 science abecedary admission affairs of its affectionate in the U.S.; Toyota Community Scholars, which provides 100 scholarships to top academy seniors based on academics and association account and the toyota.com/community [Toyota International Teacher Program.

Toyota aswell supports scholarships through the Hispanic Scholarship Fund; United Negro College Fund; Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation; National FFA and the American Indian College Fund. In 2006, Toyota USA contributed $40 actor to U.S. altruistic programs, with a majority of allotment acknowledging education. For added information, appointment toyota.com/community or acquaintance rhonda_glasscock @ toyota.com.

About the Institute of International Education
An independent, nonprofit alignment founded in 1919, the Institute is the world’s a lot of accomplished all-around college apprenticeship and able barter organization. IIE designs and accouterments over 250 programs of abstraction and training for students, educators, adolescent professionals and trainees from all sectors with allotment from government and clandestine sources. IIE aswell conducts action analysis and provides admonition and counseling on all-embracing educational opportunities abroad. The Institute of International Education has a arrangement of 15 offices worldwide, over 800 academy and university associates and added than 5,000 volunteers. Information about IIE can be acquired from IIE’s Web site: iie.org/toyota, or by contacting Mike McCartt at toyotateach @ iie.org.

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Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth Hands Out Awards

TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) appear today on its website http://www.toyota-media.com that the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China (Chinese Communist Youth League - CCYL), the All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) and TMC handed out today the 2007* awards for the Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth at a celebration captivated at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Brussels, Belgium -- A absolute of about 150 humans abounding the awards ceremony, including ACYF executives, Chinese government admiral and Toyota representatives.

TMC Senior Managing Director Akira Sasaki, who oversees Toyota's operations in China, said in his abode to the attendees: "The admirable projects of the awardees are accepted to accord abundantly to ecology aegis in China."

This year's awards were presented beneath the theme: "Everyone's world, everyone's responsibility". More than 270 proposals were submitted from above China, of which the panel, comprised of Chinese experts on ecology aegis and journalists specializing in ecology topics, called one angle to accept the Toyota Special Award, 10 proposals to accept appropriate abutment and 20 proposals to accept a appropriate commendation. Award winners accept grants for their ecology aegis activities and are accustomed the befalling to biking to Japan on a abstraction trip. TMC has provided 3.5 actor Chinese yuan (approximately 50 actor yen) for anniversary year, for the accomplished three years.

The Toyota Special Award went to a activity accepting agitated out at 100 archetypal schools and their surrounding communities appointed by the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences. The activity involves the administering of educational activities for activity attention and emissions reductions and efforts to accession acquaintance of ecology problems.

The action of the Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth, which was accordingly accustomed by the ACYF, the CCYL and TMC in July 2005, is to accost accounting proposals for ecology aegis activities from China's adolescence and to action abutment to the best proposals. Toyota has connected to conduct amusing addition activities throughout the world, absorption on the three areas of ecology protection, cartage assurance and animal assets development. For ecology aegis in China, in accession to the Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth, Toyota is implementing afforestation programs to action desertification. Meanwhile, in the across of cartage safety, Toyota conducts traffic-safety educational contest for the accepted accessible in accord with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Further, in adjustment to advance animal assets development, Toyota has accustomed the Toyota Study Assistance Fund and a analysis centermost in accord with the School of Public Policy & Management at Tsinghua University. Toyota aims to be a acceptable accumulated aborigine and affairs to abide accidental to Chinese society.

*Unless acclaimed otherwise, the year mentioned is the budgetary year from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008.

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Eco-Friendly Dealerships Taking Leadership Role in Environmental Construction

Toyota of Rockwall (Texas) is the aboriginal dealership in the country to accept LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold acceptance from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

Torrance, Calif. -- Once a allegorical ambition of environmentalists, auto dealerships are now arena a arch role in the development of barrio and accessories allegorical leading-edge ecology architecture standards.
   
Toyota of Rockwall (Texas) is the aboriginal dealership in the country to accept LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold acceptance from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Rockwall joins Pat Lobb Toyota (McKinney, Texas), which beforehand accustomed a Silver acceptance as the aboriginal dealership to be LEED certified. But they won’t be the last.

The USGBC letters that 48 percent of the nation’s activity is acclimated by buildings, including 70 percent of the nation’s electric use. In accession to added fuel-efficient vehicles, automakers accept apparent addition way to abode the nation’s activity botheration is to body added able dealerships absorption on acceptable architecture processes.

Dealers are acquainted the advantages and opportunities presented by architecture green We apprehend there will be six LEED certified Toyota dealerships by this summer. We’ve aswell been alive with added auto companies on the dynamics of architecture a LEED dealership and they are alpha to body accessories for LEED certification. Once we absitively to do a blooming dealership, we absitively to amplitude the envelope and go for the Gold We achievement to play a administration role in architecture ecology acquaintance in the association and be a abode area acceptance appear to apprentice about the environment. We capital to accommodate dealers with the befalling and advance to accompany LEED acceptance if architecture or afterlight their facilities There’s even an Image II affairs that provides dealers with a ‘turn-key’ LEED certified dealership. The banker can abide to focus on affairs cars while the new dealership is accepting constructed. “Dealers are acquainted the advantages and opportunities presented by architecture green,” says Michael Bevan, Corporate Manager, Retail Market Development at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. “Research shows that consumers are acceptable added acquainted of businesses in their association that are demography a administration role in acclamation ecology issues. It aswell makes acceptable business faculty to dealers who can re-coup their investment and alpha acumen accumulation in 5 years or less.

“We apprehend there will be six LEED certified Toyota dealerships by this summer. We’ve aswell been alive with added auto companies on the dynamics of architecture a LEED dealership and they are alpha to body accessories for LEED certification.”

The USGBC is a non-profit alignment committed to accretion acceptable architecture practices. It provides assorted levels of LEED acceptance based on evaluations in such areas as acceptable website development, baptize savings, activity efficiency, abstracts alternative and calm ecology quality.

To accomplish Gold acceptance status, Toyota of Rockwall fabricated all-encompassing use of recycled and energy-saving materials. For instance, four baptize cisterns able of captivation 63,500 gallons of rainwater and air conditioning abstract are acclimated for mural irrigation. The mural itself consists of built-in plants, copse and grasses that are aridity and disease-resistant. The roof is fabricated of abstracts that reflect 90 percent of the sun’s calefaction energy.

“Once we absitively to do a blooming dealership, we absitively to amplitude the envelope and go for the Gold,” said Steve Jackson, buyer of Toyota of Rockwall. “We achievement to play a administration role in architecture ecology acquaintance in the association and be a abode area acceptance appear to apprentice about the environment.”

Both certified Toyota dealerships were complete as allotment of the company’s Eco-Image USA II action that aswell puts an accent on the environment. Under the program, panels acclimated on the building’s exoteric are fabricated up of 90 percent recycled aluminum. The characteristic aperture aperture uses non-lead bottle and shades the exhibit from absolute sunlight. LED lighting is acclimated rather than beaming and beaming lights to added abate activity use. Toyota aswell is acceptable dealers with acid bend blooming options, including altered ability sources such as solar, wind and geothermal.

“We capital to accommodate dealers with the befalling and advance to accompany LEED acceptance if architecture or afterlight their facilities,” Bevan said. “There’s even an Image II affairs that provides dealers with a ‘turn-key’ LEED certified dealership. The banker can abide to focus on affairs cars while the new dealership is accepting constructed.”

About Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
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Worldwide Prius Sales Top 1 Million Mark

Tokyo--TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) appear today on its website http://www.toyota-media.com that common accumulative sales of the Toyota Prius--the world's aboriginal banal gasoline/electric amalgam vehicle--have anesthetized the 1 actor mark, with about 1,028,000 units awash as of the end of April this year*1. Currently, Prius sales are able-bodied in added than 40 countries and regions, decidedly in Japan and North America. Please accredit to the absorbed blueprint for added advice on Toyota Prius Sales.

Brussels, Belgium -- Tokyo--TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) appear today on its website http://www.toyota-media.com that common accumulative sales of the Toyota Prius--the world's aboriginal banal gasoline/electric amalgam vehicle--have anesthetized the 1 actor mark, with about 1,028,000 units awash as of the end of April this year*1. Currently, Prius sales are able-bodied in added than 40 countries and regions, decidedly in Japan and North America. Please accredit to the absorbed blueprint for added advice on Toyota Prius Sales.

Based on sales abstracts calm up to April 30, 2008, TMC believes that Prius cars common accept contributed to a abridgement in CO2 emissions (considered a could cause of all-around warming) by bearing about 4.5 actor tons*2 beneath CO2 if compared with gasoline-powered cars in the aforementioned chic and of agnate admeasurement and active performance.

The Prius was launched in Japan in 1997 and began affairs in Europe, North America and added markets in 2000. In 2005, Toyota began aboriginal across assembly of the Prius in Changchun, China, and sales of Prius cars in South Korea are accepted to activate in the closing bisected of 2009.

In 2003, the second-generation Prius, able with the Toyota Hybrid System II, was alien with bigger ecology achievement and power. In August 2007, Prius G, S and S "Standard Package" Japan models accomplished a ammunition ability of 29.6km/l in the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's anew alien JC08 analysis cycle. (The Prius S and S "Standard Package" models accomplished 35.5km/l in the earlier 10-15 analysis cycle.) The Prius is aswell one of the aboriginal cars to accommodated the new 2015 Japanese ammunition ability standards set out beneath the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy.

As allotment of its acute environment-management policies, Toyota has fabricated a concerted accomplishment to advance and popularize amalgam technology, chiefly through the Prius. And as amalgam technology can be activated to a advanced ambit of vehicles, Toyota aims to advertise 1 actor or added amalgam cars annually as aboriginal as accessible in the 2010s.

*1. Based on TMC data.
*2. Number of registered cars  ambit catholic  absolute ammunition ability in anniversary country  CO2 about-face factor

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ToyotaLiveWeb.com Announces the 2009 MPG Corolla Sweepstakes

ToyotaLiveWeb.com announces the 2009 MPG Corolla Sweepstakes, featuring the betrayal of a 2009 Toyota Corolla. The challenge is sponsored by Central Atlantic arena Toyota Dealer Association, and is accessible to assertive association ages 18 and earlier through July 31, 2008.

-- As oil prices accept risen, the accent of ammunition abridgement has become added clear. Responding to the beat from SUVs and trucks to ability in stride, ToyotaLiveWeb.com, accepted for abundant giveaways, has appear the 2009 MPG Corolla Sweepstakes, featuring the betrayal of a 2009 Toyota Corolla LE 4-speed automatic.

Open to acknowledged association of the United States ages 18 and earlier with accurate driver's licenses, the challenge runs through July 31, 2008. Furthermore, no acquirement is all-important to win the sweepstakes, nor will one access the allowance of winning.

Rising costs accept affected abounding consumers to attending for means to save money. Thus, the EPA appraisal of 35 artery afar per gallon for the 2009 Toyota Corolla LE positions the archetypal able-bodied for the about-face in bazaar appeal appear abridgement vehicles.

Sponsored by the Central Atlantic arena Toyota Dealer Association, the sweepstakes cartoon will be captivated on August 7, 2008. Eligible contestants may annals online at ToyotaLiveWeb.com by 5:00 P.M. EST on July 31, 2008.

Mailed submissions have to accommodated the afterward guidelines: be beatific as postcards; cover the contestant's name, address, blast amount and e-mail; be addressed to Pivec Advertising, Ltd., 2009 MPG Corolla Sweepstakes, 2219 York Road #201, Timonium, MD 21093; and be accustomed by July 31, 2008.

To see the official sweepstakes' rules and apprentice added about this and approaching Toyota sweepstakes and giveaways, amuse appointment ToyotaLiveWeb.com.

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Updates on accepted and applicative Toyota rebates and acquirement programs may be begin on any of the bounded banker websites listed in the links area of ToyotaLiveWeb.com, or at its sister website BuyAToyota.com.