Northeast Climate Conference
Presented by: Corey Tucker
April 18, 2006
Overview
 Workshops
 Guest Speakers
 Mathis Wackernagel
 Jared Duval and Billy Parish
 Laurie David
Workshops
 Biodiesel 101
 International Environmental Relations
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.