Blogging from home in Vermont 4/8/07
Welcome to the blog. One of those things I’ve been “meaning to do”. Now getting done. The direct inspiration for starting now is my preparation for my vacation this week, a vacation to Nashville, Tennessee. I will not be visiting the Grand Ole Opry or the Charlie Daniels Museum. I’ll be holed up in the Hilton with 175 other folks, learning to be a “Climate Presenter”.
Back in August, I volunteered to be trained by Al Gore and his group The Climate Project, in the science of climate change and how to present his slideshow. My commitment was to go to the training and present the show at least 10 times. I was asked in mid-December to attend training in January, but had already made other unchangeable plans (visiting daughter Jessica in the Republic of Georgia). I was pleasantly surprised to get another chance now. I know several people who have gone before me, including a former employee, Meg Gluckman. They all speak ecstatically about it, and they are all active giving the slideshow.
By the end of this training, The Climate Project will have trained about 1000 people. Already, the trainees from earlier groups have given the slideshow to more people than Al Gore had in all his years, so the project is working, it is dispersing the information.
I’m looking forward to the training. But more, I am looking forward to have another reason, motive, and purpose for speaking to people about the greatest issue of our time. And hopefully to continue to make the difference that must be made.
I’ll hopefully be blogging from Nashville during the training, although the days and nights are packed.
So that’s my vacation. Wish you were all going too!