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By Larry Schweiger

What will you learn if you read Al Gore’s new book Our Choice? That if we decide we want to be more energy independent and create millions of jobs, the answers are available to us. There’s a connection between our climate, national security and economic crises. Each is linked to our overdependence on carbon based fuels. We have the solutions in our hand, if we choose to implement renewables like solar and implement our capabilities to become more energy efficient. I keep a note on my desk that says “keep your destination in view.” For those who want to be part of the solution to a new energy future, Our Choice is an important guidepost on the path.

Ready for largest nationwide climate teach-in history?   Tonight at 8 pm Eastern time, National Wildlife Federation will launch Focus the Nation with an orientation and kickoff 2% Solutions Web Cast produced with www.EarthDayTV.net and University of Central Florida.

Tune at 8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific at www.EarthDayTV.net

Tomorrow January 31, almost 1,800 colleges and universities from all 50 states will participate in Focus the Nation – an unprecedented teach-in on solutions to global warming that will simultaneously educate and energize close to 1 million young adults. Focus the Nation will be the largest teach-in in U.S. history, galvanizing an inter-generational partnership for the first time since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Here is the list of participating schools: www.focusthenation.org/teamlist.php

You can look in your state/area for January 31 events.