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COMMUNITY
CLIMATE REALITY LEADERSHIP
COMMUNITY
“Mr. Gore has a tremendous ability to clearly
communicate the urgent
risks of climate change,
while inspiring a vision for
a future in which humanity is able to avoid a global climatic catastrophe
through responsible environmental policy, profitable innovations in industry
and business, and adoption of the green technologies available to us
now,” says Belanger. “The
Climate Reality Leadership Training, led by Mr.
Gore, empowers attendees with resources and
networking opportunities
to facilitate positive, sustainable change as stewards of the environment
and the planet.”
The Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in
Cedar Rapids provided
Parvati.org with an opportunity to show its support for the Climate Reality Project, to network with
other climate and environmental
advocates,
and to study effective
practices related to communication, education,
and activism. As part of
C
anadian environmental not-for-profit Parvati.org celebrates a fruitful participation in
the Climate Reality Leadership Training, #CRinIowa, which took place recently in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Darcy Belanger, parvati.org’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, is now a Climate Reality Leader. Belanger travelled to Cedar Rapids on behalf of Parvati.org to participate in the leadership training, which is one of the initiatives of former US Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. The Cedar Rapids training, attended by delegates from all over the world, was
one of only four taking place in 2015; the other three are Miami, New Delhi, and Toronto.
It included presentations from Mr. Gore himself and other environmental leaders as well as
panel discussion on the topics of agriculture and renewable energy.
the training, Parvati.org is
committing to ten “Acts
of Leadership” on climate
change through the coming year.
Parvati.org cheers Iowa’s
leadership in getting over
a quarter of its energy
from wind. As speakers
reiterated during the Climate Reality training, we
simply cannot afford to
burn more oil. This is nowhere more true than of
oil reserves in the remote
Arctic. Attempting to extract oil there is not a safe
or sane option.
Parvati.org was founded
by the Canadian musician and activist Parvati
when she learned of proposed seismic testing for
oil reserves in the Arctic
Ocean off Clyde River,
Nunavut. “It is a violation
of the natural laws that
govern us all that marine
mammals and other wildlife face the possibility of
permanent physical damage, even death, as a result of this industrial activity,” says Parvati. “If we as
a society feel the need to
harm n