Northeast Climate Conference

1. Northeast Climate Conference Presented by: Corey Tucker April 18, 2006

2. Overview • Workshops • Guest Speakers • Mathis Wackernagel • Jared Duval and Billy Parish • Laurie David

3. Workshops • Biodiesel 101 • International Environmental Relations

4. Mathis Wackernagel • Global Footprint Network • Global footprint measures how much land and water area a human populations uses. • Includes consumptive and productive uses. • Used as a resource for areas around the globe to try and curb consumption to a sustainable level. • Right now the world consumes approximately 5.4 acres per person, but only 4.4 are truly available or sustainable. • Visit http://ecofoot.org to find your global footprint!

5. Jared Duval and Billy Parish • Jared- National Director of Sierra Student Coalition • Billy- Founder of the Climate Campaign and Co-Founder of the Energy Action Coalition.

6. Jared and Billy Cont’d • Three Choices • Deny The Truth • Despair and hope that someone else will fix it. • Build the most inspiring movement in history to stop global warming. • We need to do something because this is going to happen within our lifetimes if we don’t act now.

7. Laurie David • Producer, “Earth To America”, “Too Hot Not to Handle”, “An Inconvenient Truth.” • Global warming is the most urgent challenge of our lifetime. • According to the experts we have less than 10 years to slow global warming down before it is too late.

8. Laurie David Cont’d • Government will not change until people demand it, and we need new tactics for a new day. • Uses media, television, film, and the internet to get message to people. • Join the Virtual March, visit www.stopglobalwarming.org.

9. An Inconvenient Truth • Take your friends and see and Inconvenient Truth, produced by Laurie David, in theaters May 26th. • Earth Day showing of new HBO special, To Hot Not to Handle.