The Climate Project Partners with First Solar-Powered Video Webcast

Al Gore's non-profit is accommodating in unique, collaborative accomplishment by eco-community to accession acquaintance of Earth Day and the abounding challenges adverse our environment. We created EarthDayWebcast.com to serve as a agenda 'soapbox' to ability and activate the all-around ecology community. Now that The Climate Project is involved, that discourse has just gotten a lot bigger -- and anybody wants to get onboard As the accident coincides with Earth Day, we ahead abounding humans will be aggressive to crop action and to accomplish important changes in the way they use our planet's resources

Nashville, Tennessee -- The Climate Project (TCP), founded by above Vice President Al Gore, is announcement its bound affiliation with Eco-Active Media, Inc. and Green Planet Search in the world's aboriginal alternate Earth Day Webcast. The event, spanning a four-month aeon from April 1-July 31, 2009, appearance a accumulating of environmentally-oriented videos, PSAs and able forums housed on a 100% solar powered belvedere created by Green Planet Search. Special abide alive will aswell crop abode the anniversary of Earth Day (April 22).

Many arch ecology organizations will participate in and advance the Webcast. The ambition is to affiliate environmentally acquainted individuals from about the apple and to present solutions on how to bigger assure our planet.

"We created EarthDayWebcast.com to serve as a agenda 'soapbox' to ability and activate the all-around ecology community. Now that The Climate Project is involved, that discourse has just gotten a lot bigger -- and anybody wants to get onboard," said Eco-Active Media President Peter Insalaco.

Not alone will non-profits, government agencies, and businesses accommodate agreeable for the Webcast, but aswell celebrities, authors, teachers, students, scientists, and bounded association leaders.

"As the accident coincides with Earth Day, we ahead abounding humans will be aggressive to crop action and to accomplish important changes in the way they use our planet's resources," said Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project.

For added information, amuse appointment http://EarthDayWebcast.com, http://www.greenplanetsearch.com and http://theclimateproject.org.

About The Climate Project

The Climate Project (TCP) is a nonprofit alignment founded by above Vice President Al Gore based in Nashville, Tennessee, which began operations in June 2006 with the mission of accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin in the United States and abroad. It consists of a able agents and assorted accumulation of added than 2,600 volunteers throughout the apple who accept been accomplished by Al Gore himself 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 added advice about The Climate Project, amuse appointment http://www.theclimateproject.org or alarm (615) 327-7577.

About EarthDayWebcast.com

The EarthDayWebcast.com is a co-production of New York-based Eco-Active Media, Inc. (EAM) and Miami Beach-based GreenPlanetSearch.com (GPS). EAM is a newly-formed, socially-conscious media and business alignment committed to developing avant-garde media platforms that affiliate the non-profit and for-profit communities, highlighting their ecology initiatives and alarming individuals and organizations akin to be "eco-active." GPS is the aboriginal 100% solar-powered eco-search engine and blooming community. By accumulation award-winning cartoon with a absolutely flash-driven interface and a green-oriented database, it allows affecting full-screen bartering to appear abaft 100% environmentally-relevant seek results.

Media Contacts:

Carrie Criado
Communications Manager
The Climate Project
2100 West End Avenue
Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37203
(832) 576-6207
http://www.theclimateproject.org
carrie.criado(at)theclimateproject.org

Peter Insalaco
President/Co-CEO
Eco-Active Media, Inc.
P.O. Box 3133
East Hampton, N.Y. 11937-0397
(631) 604-1055   
peteri(at)eco-activemedia.com

Michael Haney
Founder/CEO
Green Planet Search, Inc.
1825 West Ave. Bay 7
Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 397-8195
mike(at)greenplanetsearch.com
www.GreenPlanetSearch.com

The Climate Project Brings Together Historic Gathering of World's Experts on Climate Change

Hundreds of Grass-Roots Activists and Scientific Leaders Meet in Nashville for Al Gore's North American Summit

Nashville, Tennessee, -- The Climate Project (TCP), an all-embracing non-profit founded by above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide, is aperture its North American Summit in Nashville today.

During the three day event, Gore will abode added than 500 attendees as able-bodied as conduct a three hour training workshop. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will aswell be present. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and announcer Dr. David Suzuki will accompany Gore and Pachauri, establishing the aboriginal time in history that three of the a lot of accustomed names in altitude change accept anytime appeared together.

The Summit marks the alpha of TCP's "Phase Two," signaling the alteration from its aboriginal mission of apprenticeship and accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis to its broadcast cold of "advocacy and activism." Now, TCP volunteers, while continuing their apprenticeship role, will aswell seek to actuate humans to animate adopted admiral and association leaders to actively abode altitude change issues.

To advice advance this move, Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political architect and above agent civic attack administrator for Barack Obama, will allege to attendees as able-bodied as Steve Bouchard, adept political attack architect and Repower America Campaign Manager, about the civic attack to achieve adventurous behavior to advance altitude change. Both are now alive with Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection, who is aswell acclamation the conference.

The about-face from accessible apprenticeship to activism is aggressive in allotment by the accessible Copenhagen Treaty negotiations, a acquisition in December 2009 of hundreds of assembly from about the apple to altercate the backup of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol set banned on greenhouse gas emissions for all accommodating countries. The accord absolute emissions trading options to action the potentially adverse bread-and-butter accoutrement of abrupt restrictions. The cold of the Copenhagen affair is to authorize options for furthering the Kyoto accord goals. TCP's role will be to advocate for key leaders in the US and throughout the apple to crop able positions during the Copenhagen meeting.

In addition, abundant ecology scientists will advance console discussions on altitude issues. Dr. George Woodwell, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, and Dr. Eric Steig, geochemist and University of Washington professor, will allege on Global Warming Projections: The Latest Climate Science. A additional panel, advance by Dr. Howard Frumkin of the Center for Disease Control and Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard Medical Center, will abode Emerging Health Threats of Climate Change.

Several added altitude change workshops will aswell be held.

The afterward are some of the experts and leaders that will attend:

--Honorable Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and above Vice President, Founder of The Climate Project, Founder and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Mrs. Tipper Gore, author, photographer, above Second Lady of the United States
--Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price with Gore
--David Suzuki, scientist, broadcaster, ecology activist
--Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political strategist, Deputy National Campaign Director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
--Steve Bouchard, adept political architect and Repower America Campaign Manager
--George Woodwell, Ph.D., ecologist, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center
--Eric Steig, Ph.D., geochemist, assistant at University of Washington
--Dr. Howard Frumkin, CDC, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health
--Dr. Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment
--Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project
--Larry Schweiger, President, National Wildlife Federation
--Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Don Henry, Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation
--Kaki King, guitarist, singer-songwriter
--Roz Savage, ocean rower, ecology activist

About The Climate Project

The Climate Project (TCP) is an all-embracing non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide. TCP consists of a able agents and added than 2,600 committed volunteers throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK, all alone accomplished by Al Gore to brainwash the accessible about altitude change. In 2009, TCP broadcast its mission with a new charge to advancement and activism to action the altitude crisis. TCP presenters accept accomplished a accumulated admirers of added than 5 actor humans common and affairs are underway to advance accessory offices in Israel, China, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and Latin America. Our achievement is that by adopting the acquaintance of our adolescent citizens about this crisis and allegorical them about abeyant solutions, all of us, together, can bottle the altitude antithesis on which altruism and our planet depend.

For added advice on The Climate Project, amuse appointment http://www.theclimateproject.org or alarm (615) 327-7577.

Media Contacts:
Carrie Criado
Communications Director
The Climate Project
carrie.criado @ theclimateproject.org
832-576-6207

Kalee Kreider
Office of Honorable Al and Mrs. Tipper Gore
press @ carthagegroup.com,
(615) 332-5004

Julia Payne
Communications Director
The Alliance for Climate Projection
julia.payne @ climateprotect.org, (202)628-1999

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Climate Savers Computing Initiative Gains Momentum With Additional UK Support

Climate-friendly IT account provider S3 Consulting has abutting arch all-around alms World Wildlife Fund as a affiliate of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The Initiative is a all-around movement backed by companies such as Dell, EDS, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the World Wildlife Fund that is committed to abbreviation the activity burning of computers by 50 percent by 2010.

Milton Keynes, Bucks -- Climate-friendly IT account provider S3 Consulting has abutting arch all-around alms World Wildlife Fund as a affiliate of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The Initiative is a all-around movement backed by companies such as Dell, EDS, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the World Wildlife Fund that is committed to abbreviation the activity burning of computers by 50 percent by 2010.

Having formed carefully with the European sub-committee of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative for about a year, S3 has anchored its accord with and abutment for the attack via both hands-on accord and absolute advocacy of funds, to abetment with the realisation of its goals in a direct, and allusive hands-on capacity.

We are captivated that businesses at the aciculate end of the IT sector, such as S3, are demography the action and lending their abutment to our attack in a way that demonstrates their acquaintance of the acceptation and abeyant appulse of this issue. It's through these collaborations that the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is alive to aftereffect boundless change. The sub-committee plays a key role in the programme, chargeless specific activities and initiatives at a bounded level. By 2010, the action seeks to abate all-around CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 actor bags per year, agnate to the anniversary achievement of 11 actor cars or 10-20 coal-fired ability plants.

Formed in 2004, S3 Consulting specialises in accouterment VMware consulting and altitude affable action IT solutions whilst auspicious businesses to adjust their business and IT functions added closely. The business strives to abate IT users' carbon brand in agreement of basement -- abbreviation costs whilst accretion business abundance and value.

Arne Josefsberg, Microsoft's adumbrative to the Climate Savers Computing Initiative axle of directors, commented: "We are captivated that businesses at the aciculate end of the IT sector, such as S3, are demography the action and lending their abutment to our attack in a way that demonstrates their acquaintance of the acceptation and abeyant appulse of this issue. It's through these collaborations that the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is alive to aftereffect boundless change."

Chris Bullock, CEO of S3 Consulting added: "Having been a affiliate of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative for abutting a year, S3 has consistently approved to bear a ability able bulletin in its account accumulation -- absolutely carbon extenuative is actual abutting to our hearts. The adeptness to plan even added carefully with the action offers S3 the befalling to play a above allotment in allowance organisations realise the accent of appetite appear a greener accretion landscape."

For added information, amuse visit: www.s3consulting.co.uk or call: 0845 686 0530.

About Climate Savers Computing
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a non-profit alignment accustomed by environmentally acquainted consumers, corporations, and ecology aegis organizations. The aim of the Initiative is to advance the activity ability of computers and to animate the development, addition and use of beat technologies for abbreviation IT activity consumption. The Initiative is led by Dell, EDS, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas & Electric and World Wildlife Fund. Sponsors cover AMD, Delta Electronics, eBay, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Marvell Semiconductor, NEC, Sun and Supermicro. Visit www.climatesaverscomputing.org for added details.

Climate Savers® is a brand or registered brand of World Wildlife Fund Inc., an all-embracing attention organization. Used beneath license.

Press enquiries apropos the Climate Savers Computing Initiative: Barbara Grimes, Owen Media, 503-222-2545 x229 (office), 206-369-9907 (mobile)

Press Enquiries apropos S3 Consulting:
Pete Goold / Katharine Parker, PR Agency, Tel +44 (0) 1858 545 959, Email: pete@punchcomms.com