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Former mayor to speak at climate change presentation

Released: March 18, 2007

NEW BEDFORD — The Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance will host a climate change presentation from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the New Bedford Whaling Museum auditorium, featuring John K. Bullard as keynote speaker.

Mr. Bullard will make his presentation with training he received from a Tennessee initiative created by Al Gore, recent Oscar winner for the film "An Inconvenient Truth" and current Nobel Prize nominee. The whaling museum will show "An Inconvenient Truth" free of charge from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 5.

Mr. Bullard, former mayor of New Bedford, former president of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay and now president of the Sea Education Association, will discuss what people can do on a local scale, individually, and at their businesses and/or organizations. After his presentation, local environmental leaders and education alliance representatives will talk about their work with climate change and the environment.

The event will begin with a social hour featuring music, light fare and beverages. Tickets to the climate change presentation are $10 and can be purchased in person at Baker Books in Dartmouth, Lees Supermarket in Westport and at the whaling museum.

The gallery at the museum auditorium will be filled with exhibits from many of the alliance's more than 40 partners in the region, all of whose missions include environmental education. The displays will include opportunities to get involved in local communities.

Organizations involved in this event seek to decrease dependency on nonrenewable fossil fuels, cut carbon emissions, create less waste and have less impact on the environment.

The Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance, started almost 10 years ago under the auspices of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, includes 44 partners: nonprofits and service agencies, public schools, colleges and universities. It was formed to support environmental education in the area through outreach, education and development.

For more information, contact Jen Marshall at jmarshall@seeal.org, or call (607) 351-1268.