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Local environmental groups will join Americans across the country on
Feb. 5 to discuss concrete steps the state and federal government can
take to address global warming.

The T. Gilbert Pearson Audubon Society will co-sponsor the National
Teach-in on Global Warming from 7-9 p.m. at Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church, 607 N. Greene St. Other sponsoring groups include the Piedmont
Land Conservancy, Environmental Stewardship Greensboro, the Guilford
County Cooperative Extension and the city of Greensboro's Community
Sustainability Council.

The teach-in supports an emerging, intergenerational movement of
students and citizens demanding clean energy solutions to global
warming. The Greensboro audience will watch The First 100 Days web cast
produced by the National Wildlife Federation. The half-hour webcast
will focus on four key recommendations of the Presidential Climate
Action Project:

• Cutting carbon by 40 percent by 2020;

• Creating green jobs by solarizing, weatherizing and rewiring;

• Leading in clean technology; and

• Generating carbon neutral power for America.

A panel of experts will then discuss what is happening locally
regarding impacts of climate change and responses to it. Panelists
include Guilford County legislator Pricey Harrison; Ken Bridle,
stewardship director of the Piedmont Land Conservancy; Bob Powell, a
N.C. A&T professor and co-chairman of the Community Sustainability
Council; and Karen Neill of the Cooperative Extension.

Organizer
Craig Lawrence said Powell and Neill will talk about what individuals
can do in their communities to address global warming.

"We tried to get a variety of perspectives," Lawrence said.

Participants
will then create a calendar to help Triad area citizens put pressure on
Congress throughout the First 100 Days of President Obama's
administration. It also supports the events and initiatives of
organizations such as the Energy Action Coalition, the Blue-Green
Alliance, and 1Sky.

For more information on the National Teach-In, please visit www.thenationalteachin.org.

For more information on the Greensboro event contact:

Craig Lawrence at 460-7924 or craig.carolina@gmail.com; or Ken Bridle at 409-5046 or kbridle@piedmontland.org.

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