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The Green House Network, a Portland, Oregon-501(c)3 non-profit organization, is committed to creating the grassroots movement needed to stop global warming.
The Green House Network has no paid staff, but hundreds of active members across the country.
Green House Network global warming education programs multiply grassroots leadership supporting the clean energy revolution that we need to stop global warming.
Our model for social change is the Highlander Education and Research Center in Tennessee. During the late 1950s, virtually every major civil rights activist, from Rosa Parks to Dr. Martin Luther King, attended Highlander workshops. As the Highlander Center did during the labor and civil rights movements, we bring together citizen activists and educators, provide information, networking, tools, and organizing models. These leaders return home to engage in action and education helping to stop global warming now.
Global warming demands action now. Scientists are forecasting a warming of between 2 and 11 degrees F over the next century. During the last Ice Age the world averaged only 9 degrees cooler than it is today. We thus face the very real possibility of a swing in global temperatures of Ice-Age magnitude within the lifetimes of our children. It is no exaggeration to say that, unchecked, global warming will cause more human suffering and destroy more natural ecosystems than has any other industrial pollutant in our history.
Climate stabilization will require an extremely rapid transition toward a clean energy future-one based on solar, wind and biomass-generated power, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. It will take a powerful social movement to overcome political and corporate inertia and catalyze the clean energy revolution we need in order to avoid unimaginable change to human and natural systems. We need committed, skilled, persuasive climate communicators and advocates to make that movement a reality
The Green House Network has no paid staff, but hundreds of active members across the country.
Green House Network global warming education programs multiply grassroots leadership supporting the clean energy revolution that we need to stop global warming.
Our model for social change is the Highlander Education and Research Center in Tennessee. During the late 1950s, virtually every major civil rights activist, from Rosa Parks to Dr. Martin Luther King, attended Highlander workshops. As the Highlander Center did during the labor and civil rights movements, we bring together citizen activists and educators, provide information, networking, tools, and organizing models. These leaders return home to engage in action and education helping to stop global warming now.
Global warming demands action now. Scientists are forecasting a warming of between 2 and 11 degrees F over the next century. During the last Ice Age the world averaged only 9 degrees cooler than it is today. We thus face the very real possibility of a swing in global temperatures of Ice-Age magnitude within the lifetimes of our children. It is no exaggeration to say that, unchecked, global warming will cause more human suffering and destroy more natural ecosystems than has any other industrial pollutant in our history.
Climate stabilization will require an extremely rapid transition toward a clean energy future-one based on solar, wind and biomass-generated power, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. It will take a powerful social movement to overcome political and corporate inertia and catalyze the clean energy revolution we need in order to avoid unimaginable change to human and natural systems. We need committed, skilled, persuasive climate communicators and advocates to make that movement a reality