Greenhouse Crisis Foundation PSA 1994
From the 1989 press release:
A nationwide public mobilization to address the Greenhouse Crisis will
be launched at a Congressional Press Conference and Luncheon on June 8th, by thirty members of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives,
The Greenhouse Crisis Foundation and representatives of nineteen national organizations. The press conference and luncheon will be held in Room 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building 12:00 to 2:00 P. M.
Earlier in the morning the press is invited to attend the opening of specially designated energy conservation and recycling centers being set up in Congressional offices followed by the planting of a Greenhouse tree on the grounds of the Capitol. (Recycling at 9:30 A. M. Senator Tim Wirth's
office Room 380 Russell). Two youth representatives have been selected by each of the national youth service organizations to take part in the morning events and the press conference and luncheon.
A unique coalition of the nations' youth service organizations, school teachers associations, church denominations and grassroots public interest organizations., representing millions of American families and youngsters, are joining together with Members of Congress in the largest environmental education campaign in U. S. history.
Participating organizations include, Girl's Clubs of America, Campfire, Inc., Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., YMCA of the U.S.A., Big-Brothers/Big-Sisters of America, National Association of Service and Conservation Corps, National Science Teachers Association, National Association of Biology
Teachers, National Association for Science, Technology & Society, National Council for the Social Studies, The National Council of Churches, The Humane Society of the U.S., Citizen Action, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, National Toxics; Campaign, and the American Forestry
Association.
The massive 3 year campaign focuses on 101 practical steps each of us can take in our personal lives to help avert the global warming crisis and develop an ecological lifestyle for the 1990s. The nation's youth service organizations and grassroots citizen's groups will be coordinating energy
audits, recycling campaigns, tree planting and other environmental activities and programs in communities across the country.
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