Community Commitment – Our eventual goal is to get family and community commitment to “Think Globally and Work Locally” on matters of Global Responsibility. Every family and every school will be left with a set of challenges helpful to the overall cause that they have generated themselves and that they can accomplish. Schools will be urged to work together within their community, and the internet will be used to tie them together for this project, forming interconnected learning communities in a "My Space" type network where schools can go to get answers to questions and to brag about accomplishments.


Timeline for Recruiting Consultants and Schools – Planning will start now in Winter/Spring 2007. We will test the program in March or April 2007 and I’ll give it a full year of implementation in school year 2007-2008. If it is acceptable and we can get approval from the Climate Project, and we can get funding, we will use that program as the training vehicle for the national roll-out with national training in summer of 2008 and implementation in fall of 2008. Once the program has been delivered in a dozen schools, we will send in a camera crew to record the student response and create two DVDs. One will be promotional and about 10 minutes in length and will be sent for free to schools that request information on the program. The other will be several hours in length and can be used as a training DVD for potential consultants. Consultants can come from recent college graduates or from college students who want to take a year off and present these programs for credit or from current or ex-teachers, or from performers who like to work with kids.


Financial - Experience shows that it is vital for schools to invest in this program or they will not value it and they will not follow through after the consultant leaves the building. Schools will pay for this information if it is properly structured and professionally delivered. Certainly the PTA can make a contribution of $500 for a Climate Change is Elementary™ Program of high quality. This amount can be supplemented or matched by foundation support or a commercial sponsor to pay for getting the bookings and for overheads like transportation and housing, giving the consultant $500 to take home for each school. With this program and with centralized scheduling and a transportation allowance each consultant can deliver one-day programs to at least 100 schools per year and can net over $50,000 for their efforts. One hundred consultants can visit 10,000 schools in one year. In ten years every elementary school in the US can be visited at a cost of about $500 per school. $50,000,000 stretched over a ten-year period seems like a small price for a sponsor to pay to save the world, particularly if it is matched by contributions from the schools.


Pilot Program – For $35,000 it will be possible to design the program and give it a solid test in about 10 elementary schools in several states. Funds are being sought for that test.