Congratulations to Lindsay Loken, winner of the Alliance's Mobile Program Sweepstakes. Lindsay received an iPhone and a DVD of An Inconvenient Truth.
Click here to learn more about the Alliance's Mobile Program.

Do you want to learn more about the climate crisis and ways to stop it? Here are some books that we at the Alliance recommend:
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
A companion book to the award-winning documentary
The Live Earth Global Warming Handbook by David de Rothschild
77 essential skills to stop climate change
Fight Global Warming Now by Bill McKibben
A handbook for taking action in your community to stop climate change
Freedom from Oil by David B. Sandalow
A narrative about how today's leaders in Washington are (and aren't) debating the ways to break our addiction to oil

Warner Bros. Records is releasing LIVE EARTH - THE CONCERTS FOR A CLIMATE IN CRISIS, featuring 30 of the best musical performances from this year's Live Earth concerts. The digital bundle of tracks is available now on iTunes and all participating digital resellers. Live Earth’s net proceeds from the sale will go to benefit the Alliance for Climate Protection. Find out more at http://www.liveearth.org/?p=304 (or if you have iTunes, click here to view the album).

Realclimate.org has an excellent post responding to reports of supposed "errors" in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".
Read more here

Big shout out to all the bloggers and websites that have raised awareness of our Black Balloons video.
Among the many were:

If we missed some, let us know through our Contact Us form.

The Alliance is seeking a talented individual to assist us with our new media activities starting as soon as possible in our Palo Alto, CA office.
The New Media Associate will be responsible for some or all of the following tasks:
* Developing and managing day-to-day relationships with companies in the online space (social networking, applications, search, portals, etc.)
* Alliance website content updates
* Management of our email and mobile lists
* Writing creative emails and SMSs
* Developing interactive online elements
* Collaboration with our internet and mobile contractors
* Implementing online fundraising strategies
* Directing Alliance email inquiries to the appropriate staff person
* A variety of other tasks in a start-up atmosphere
The Associate will be the go-to person handling daily internet activities among a small staff in a high-paced and demanding but highly rewarding environment.
The ideal candidate is ambitious, creative, flexible, has knowledge of the space, and is extremely detail-oriented. We are looking for someone with a couple years of experience in new media. Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to info@climateprotect.org.

  If you use Facebook, add the Alliance for Climate Protection as one of your favorite causes. Then invite your network of Facebook friends to help grow and support our movement to address the climate crisis.

Al Gore's Fight Against the Climate Crisis
As the world heats up, so does Al Gore. Every melting glacier, every catastrophic storm, every record-breaking hot spell is a planetary-scale endorsement of his belief that tackling global warming is the biggest challenge of our time. Gore may not have announced his candidacy for president - not yet, anyway - but he is already running one of the most aggressive campaigns in American history. (Rolling Stone)

Global warming activists try to stir Americans to change: Urging different lifestyles on people seen as difficult
While former Vice President Al Gore prodded Congress to act Wednesday, activists nationwide were preparing a pressure campaign that they hope will boost public support of their movement to end global warming. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Al Gore Has Big Plans
Al Gore has attained what you can only call prophetic status; and he has done so by acting as he could not, or would not, as a candidate — saying precisely what he believes, and saying it with clarity, passion, intellectual mastery and even, sometimes, wit. (The New York Times)
eBay.com to Support U.S. Live Earth Concert
eBay.com (Nasdaq:EBAY) announced it will support the U.S. leg of the seven-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts on July 7, 2007 as the authorized tickets resale provider. (Business Wire)
Al Gore trains a global army
Two weeks ago, the last 150 of the people selected to learn how to deliver Al Gore's slideshow from An Inconvenient Truth gathered in Nashville. In all, 1000 people have been trained - everyone from Wal-Mart Executives to Cameron Diaz. (USA Today)

Green homes going maintstream
any energy-consumption problems can be addressed with simple tweaks to conventional house design -- windows and sliding glass doors placed on opposite walls, bamboo wood floors, recycled countertops. And all in high-design. (CNET Networks)


Monday-Morning Environmentalists: Marketers Need To Be Green And Proud
New Research shows consumers want companies to wear green on their corporate sleeves and wish companies would talk about it more. (Marketing Daily)

Boeing recycling practices nets $60 million
At The Boeing Co., being green isn't just good for the environment -- it's good for business. (Seattle PI)

London, Tokyo Submerged by Rising Seas -- In "Second Life"
Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming. (National Geographic)


">Hummers and muscle cars go green
Manufacturers are offering consumers clean cars but not cutting back on performance. (CNET Networks)

Gore, Wall talk 'Live'
Al Gore and Kevin Wall talk about Live Earth. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Global warming: no more excuses
First, science confirmed the reality of global warming. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court's reprimand of the Bush administration has cut through the legal impediments for dealing with climate change. (Seattle Times)

Gore: Climate change "a planetary crisis"
Former Vice President Al Gore brought his Climate Crisis message to Congress last week to push for aggressive and far-reaching policy changes. (Denver Post)