PORTLAND, OREGON, April 5, 2004 --/World-Wire/-- Citing growing scientific evidence that global warming poses a severe threat to the economic and ecological well being of the United States, a coalition of environmental groups today announced a conference to help build the movement to stop global warming.

Green House Network, in a partnership with Clean Air-Cool Planet and Massachusetts Climate Action Network invites interested individuals to a weekend conference, July 23rd-25th in Boston MA. The conference will have a dual focus.

"This is an opportunity for folks who want to join our National Volunteer Speakers network", said Eban Goodstein, Executive Director of the Green House Network. "In addition, there will be sessions for community organizers and activists, trying to raise awareness of the issue in their communities."

Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, formerly an editor at the Boston Globe, and author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription (Perseus Books,1998), will keynote the event, to be held on Thompson Island in the Boston Harbor.

Since December of 1999, the Green House Network has held a series of nine training workshops, creating a national network of 250 plus climate volunteers across the country, who collectively have given over 600 presentations at colleges, schools, and for business and faith groups. Last year two training sessions were held: one in Portland in mid October, and another in the Boston Harbor on Thompson Island (right) in July, partnering there with Clean-Air Cool-Planet, and the Massachusetts Climate Action Network. Participants included, among other incredibly talented folks, the Vice Mayor of Cambridge, MA, a stock analyst, and the director of a group which installs solar power in Latin American villages.The trainings were lead by a distinguished cast of climate educators, including Greenpeace Executive Director John Passacantando, Massachussetts Director of Air Policy and Planning Sonia Hamel, author Bill McKibben, and former Sierra Club Director, Adam Werbach.

For more information or to register, please visit http://www.greenhousenet.org/cep/participants.html, call 503-, or e-mail us at help@greenhousenet.org.