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February 15, 2007 issue
Showings of An Inconvenient Truth February 22
Climate Change Messengers Sally Beth Shore and Whitney Steele, trained through Al Gore’s Climate Project, will speak at Lees-McRae College on Monday, February 26, on climate change, global warming and what we can do about it.
Shore will present a program entitled Engaging the Climate Change in Hayes Auditorium from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. for Lees-McRae students, faculty and staff and the community. Armed with information and skills from climate change scientists, educators and Al Gore, Shore will present her version of Gore’s presentation in the movie An Inconvenient Truth.
At 7:00 p.m., Steele will join Shore in leading a discussion on global warming. Their joint presentation, also open to the public, is called The Climate Project: Answer the Call and will be held in Evans Auditorium in the Cannon Student Center.
The Climate Project is a movement to educate and challenge citizens and governments into action against the growing crisis of global warming. As a nonprofit group, The Climate Project works to bring education, community information, research and citizen action programs to communities across the country.
The first initiative, sponsored by Participant Productions, is the training of 1,000 Climate Change Messengers who will present information delivered in An Inconvenient Truth to audiences across America. Each messenger has committed to making at least 10 presentations on global warming in 2007.
Laurie David’s book The Solution Is You! will be available at half its retail value during both programs on February 26. Laurie David is the producer of An Inconvenient Truth and founder of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March.
Climate Change Messenger Shore, a native of Southern Pines, N.C., received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in geology/geography and environmental science, respectively. Her experience includes service as a Peace Corps volunteer, geologist and nonprofit director. Currently, she is an adjunct instructor of environmental science at UNC-Asheville, is studying for a master of divinity degree and serves as a student minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. She is married to air policy analyst Michael Shore and has three children ages 11, 9 and 6.
Climate Change Messenger Steele is originally from Athens, Tenn., and received her B.A. in religion and philosophy and writing from Queens University in Charlotte. She is currently studying for her M.A. in Appalachian studies at ASU. Eventually, he hopes to go to divinity. She is married to Matthew Coe, a special education teacher in Mountain City.
Leading up to the program on February 26, S.A.V.E., (Students Against a Vanishing Environment), a student club at Lees-McRae, will sponsor showings of An Inconvenient Truth throughout the day and evening in Evans Auditorium on Thursday, February 22. The first showing of the film will be at 11:00 a.m. and the last showing at 7:00 p.m.
Sponsors for these programs are Lees-McRae’s Division of Science and Mathematics, Global Community Center, and S.A.V.E. For more information about these programs, contact Kathy Campbell at 828-898-3142. For more information about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth and the Climate Change Messengers, click to www.theclimateproject.org, www.stopglobalwarming.org or www.climatecrisis.net.
Want To Go?
What: Showings of An Inconvenient Truth
Date: Thursday, February 22
Time: First showing 11:00 a.m./Final showing 7:00 p.m.
Location: Evans Auditorium, Lees-McRae College
Cost: Free
Want To Go?
What: Climate Change Messenger Presentations
Date: Monday, February 26
Times: 2:00 p.m. Engaging the Climate Change/7:00 p.m. The Climate Project: Answer the Call
Location: 2:00 Hayes Auditorium/7:00 Evans Auditorium
Cost: Free