The Climate Project

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The Climate Project was founded by Nobel Laureate Al Gore in June, 2006 and is a non profit organization [1] dedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change. It is a grassroots environmental organization. TCP’s mission is to raising awareness to the issue of climate change. not only on a local but global level by means of providing seminars, training and educational presentations[2].

The Climate Project began operations in June 2006 based out of Nashville, TN, the home of Al Gore. The first training was held in September, 2006 and by April 2007, over 1000 people had been trained by Al Gore personally, IPCC scientists (Michael McCracken, Henry Pollack) and other TCP trainers. The trainees were selected from 1000s of applications submitted through the TCP website. Volunteers were from diverse backgrounds, walks of life, age groups, and geographic regions - all 50 states in the United States. The trainees were instructed by Al Gore on how to present versions of his slide show which is featured in the Academy Award-winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth". The trainees also received training which included presentation skills, website communications with the TCP group. The volunteers, once trained, become TCP presenters and return to their communities and give presentations to a wide range of groups, using the slide show as a basis for customizing their presentation as a means of educating their audience and disseminating information on this subject.

In addition to the people trained in the US, TCP has trained 200 people in the United Kingdom UK[3].. TCP claims to have delivered more than 15,000 presentations and reached an audience of two million people[4]. Additional training sessions are planned for China and elsewhere.

Presenter support is given after initial training in the task of reaching out to audiences across the country. After presenters return home, they are linked through The Climate Project website and interactive community[5]. They also have a team of online communications and environmental specialists, materials for their audiences, and assistance in organizing their speaking venues, press releases to support their volunteer work.

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  1. ^ The Climate Project: About Us. The Climate Project. Retrieved on 5, 2008. Retrieved on May 2008.
  2. ^ http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=73357634306432&mkt=en-CA&lang=en-CA&w=32286138,aec6f7ad&FORM=CVRE4
  3. ^ http://, 200 in Spain www.theclimateprojectspain.org/ , 250 in Australia www.acfonline.org.au, 150 in India www.climateprojectindia.org and 275 in Canada www.climateprojectcanada.org ref>.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/climatechange/archive/2008/04/05/training-day-al-gore-offers-the-truth-slide-by-slide.aspx
  4. ^ www.theclimateproject.org</ The most recent training sessions in India itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/19/al-gore-launches-the-climate-project-india/ and Canada www.theclimateproject.org/tcpnews.php?id=65 have brought the total number of TCP presenters worldwide to 2,300<ref>www.theclimateproject.com</li> <li id="cite_note-4">'''[[#cite_ref-4|^]]''' www.climateprojectcanada.org</li></ol></ref>