I received some very exciting news this week. A few months ago I applied to be a volunteer presenter for The Climate Project – the non-profit organisation founded by Al Gore to raise public awareness of climate change.
How it works is that Al Gore and a team of experts train the volunteers to deliver a version of the slide show seen in the award winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. They run these training sessions across the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain and the UK, and to date, they have trained over 2.600 volunteers.
This week they got back to me and told me I got in!
So next month I will be heading off to Melbourne to meet Al Gore and take part in a 3 day training conference, before being turned loose on the public to do my part in raising awareness of climate change.
To date, The Climate Project presenters have reached a combined audience of more than 5 million people worldwide and plans are underway to develop affiliate offices in Israel, China, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and Latin America.
The hope is that by raising the awareness of our fellow citizens about this crisis and informing them about potential solutions, all of us, together, can preserve the balance on which humanity and our planet depend.
You can read more about The Climate Project, or their Australian partner, The Australian Conservation Foundation here:
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