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Al Gore Training Project

Taps Vivian Fulk as Global Warming Messenger

January 22, 2007: King, NC resident and small business co-owner Vivian Fulk recently completed a rigorous training program led by former Vice President Al Gore to spread the message about the threat of and solutions to global warming. Fulk is seeking regional media to help get the word out.

“Vivian [Fulk] is an outstanding example of the millions of Americans who have been energized by the call to action on the climate crisis,” said Gore. “We are so pleased that she has made a serious commitment to this challenge by coming to Nashville to become part of this unprecedented grassroots effort. She will be spending the next year making presentations in and around the Piedmont Triad and the Northwest North Carolina, discussing how individuals and businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations can be a major part of the solution to the growing crisis of global warming,” continued Gore.”

Vivian was part of a select group of individuals chosen to receive this important training January 4^th through the 6^th. There were five training sessions, spanning December 2006 and January 2007, totaling 1,000 trainees. Each trainee took part in an intensive tutorial about issues surrounding global warming, led by Gore and a team of renowned scientists and environmental educators, including panelist Dr. Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences, Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University. Each received technical training to become experienced presenters of a version of Gore’s computer-based slide show, which became the basis of his best-selling book and documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

“I was thrilled when I found out they had selected me,” said Fulk. “I was flying each week as a consultant with Philadelphia Housing Authority and saw the movie opening week there. The trailer had a web site - ClimateCrisis.net - asking people to sign up to be a presenter and to evaluate their carbon footprint. I fly less now and consult with TEK Systems at GMACI in Winston. Anyway, I know a lot of people applied to go to The Climate Project training, yet they chose me – I’m the only one in Northwest North Carolina. I heard numbers like 30,000 to 40,000 people applied, but only 1,000 of us got to go to be trained by Al Gore himself.”

Fulk worked as a research assistant doing energy audits while studying IE at NCA&T. Research proved profits increased as energy was conserved and renewable energy sources like solar were utilized. When Fulk moved back to her husband’s family tobacco farm and they converted it to vineyards, she and her husband built a passive solar house. Fulk has spent the last 20 year reading various literatures on the topic, including Mr. Gore’s book and subsequent movie.

“I saw [Al] Gore at the W-S Glade Street YWCA with my mom in one of those Town Hall meetings. I was a grad student at Duke at the time and my professor was one of their economic advisors. She made us read both political platforms and write a contrast and comparison”, reminisced Fulk. “Mr. Gore’s lecture is so compelling and so down to earth, he has taken the scientific information and made it interesting to view, which is what I am charged with now doing.”

Fulk is seeking opportunities to share this information with various groups on Global Climate Change. To contact Ms. Vivian Fulk to schedule a presentation, please call, Medley Meadows Music and Vineyards, at 336-983-7051 or e-mail Vivian@medleymeadows.com. Presentations are provided free of charge. For more information please see their farm web site www.MedleyMeadows.com

Paul Beaudette, Board of Directors National Wildlife Federation, The Honorable Al Gore, and Vivian Fulk, Climate Project trainee.