cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,d.maraun@uea.ac.uk,cru@uea.ac.uk date: Fri Mar 7 09:14:23 2008 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: Fwd: Earth Day Challenge & UK Climatic Research Unit to: Clare Goodess , Phil Jones ,m.salmon@uea.ac.uk Clare et al do not know anything much about this - but let us chat at the Board briefly. I certainly will not get involved in anything Keith At 19:19 06/03/2008, Clare Goodess wrote: Phil Norwich is planning to take part in Earth Hour 2008 - linking up with Cred - [1]http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&t Brand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED01%20Mar%202008%2010%3A25%3A30%3A927 . So if we are going to promote anything (which I personally would be in favour of) - should probably be the Norwich/Cred initiative. Particularly as EarthLab seems to think we are in the US! The day itself is a saturday - 29 March. Is this something for Board to discuss on Tuesday? We need to remember that Mike is away until after Easter now. Clare At 08:05 06/03/2008, Phil Jones wrote: Is this worth doing? Phil Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:13:45 -0700 From: Anna Rising Subject: Earth Day Challenge & UK Climatic Research Unit To: p.jones@uea.ac.uk User-Agent: Web-Based Email 4.12.23 X-Originating-IP: 64.122.106.54 X-UEA-Spam-Score: 1.5 X-UEA-Spam-Level: + X-UEA-Spam-Flag: NO EARTH DAY (MONTH) CHALLENGE! Phil Jones UK Climatic Research Unit Hello Phil, I am writing to introduce you to EarthLab ( [2]www.earthlab.com) and ask that you join us. We are offering our carbon footprint calculator for use on the UK Climatic Research Units website (at no charge) in conjunction with a national awareness push we will be doing this coming Earth Day Month (April). This April, EarthLab is calling on organizations such as yours throughout the United States to join in raising awareness about climate change by encouraging their world to take the EarthLab Earth Day Challenge and to lower their scores by 15% in 2008. Our goal is to have 1,000,000 people take the EarthLab Carbon Calculator test in the month of April! Participating partners to date include: National Geographic; Office Max; Alliance for Climate Protection; Live Earth, SOS; TheDailyGreen.com; Accenture; Chefs Mario Batali and Rachel Ray; Dell and eSurance. Were adding partners every week! All participating partners will be featured in the official EarthLab press release on the Challenge, as well as on Earthlab.com, with links back to the participating partner. The EarthLab Foundation first came to prominence during the worldwide Live Earth concerts this past July that featured our carbon calculator. Now, seven months later, our turn-key, web-based carbon calculator has become the most widely used calculator available. Its the first to allow individuals to save their results upon completion, then come back, make pledges, and track their reductions over time. To date, over 1.7M people have taken the test. Endorsements and partnerships include Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection; Live Earth/SOS; Leo DiCaprio's 11th Hour film; 2007 Emmy Awards; TheDailyGreen.com; Dell and eSurance. See our Live Earth Calculator : [3]www.earthlab.com/liveearth Will you join us? Linking to our website is a very easy process. Just email me and we can send you the instructions. Best regards, Anna Rising Executive Director EarthLab Foundation 425 -284-4265 x 108 annar@earthlab.com [4]www.earthlab.com Whats your impact? Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clare Goodess Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK Tel: +44 -1603 592875 Fax: +44 -1603 507784 Web: [5]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ [6]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm