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Today, associations and nonprofits ranging from Engineers Without Borders to the U.S. Green Building Council are joining more than two million students, academia, politicians and others participating in the nation’s largest “teach-in” in history. The topic? Global warming solutions.
Organized by Focus the Nation, an Oregon-based project of the nonprofit Green House Network, the initiative aims to “get everyone talking about global warming solutions on the same day,” according to participants at Rice University, one of more than 1,500 colleges, universities, civic organizations and faith groups who are “setting aside business as usual” and directing their attention fully to this complex and urgent problem.
Everyone from high school students to Nobel Prize winners, corporate CEOs to nonprofit professionals, are scheduled to speak, debate, brainstorm, pitch, compete and promote ideas and actions designed to reduce global warming and improve the environment. The project was launched by former Professor Eban Goodstein, who was inspired by the civil rights and anti-war teach-ins of the 1960s.