Big news! The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has chosen PRI as a 2019 Friend of the Planet Award winner, in large part because of our climate change education efforts! Ann Reid, NCSE's executive director, said, "... the Paleontological Research Institution — already a leader in informal evolution education — deserves special praise for The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change (2017), the single best available resource for teachers on climate change." This award is an awesome honor and is reflective of the importance of our work. Please help extend this work! I've reached my initial goal of $2000. Many thanks to the 41 contributors that made that happen! We've now shipped to every public high school in 12 states! That means there are 38 to go! And that means it's time to set a new goal for the months ahead. I'm asking you to help me raise another $2000. Our collective first target was every public high school in the Northeast. We've done almost all of that, and have the financial resources in hand to complete it. We have also completed several states outside of the Northeast - as of June 2019, we've shipped to every public high school in 14 states! Donations of any amount are welcome. A few dollars from you personally is wonderful and welcome. You might also be part of a service organization, family, or group of friends who’d like to have a bigger impact. You’ll probably be surprised to learn that the entire state of Massachusetts could be covered with a gift of less than $10,000. A state with a small population could be covered by less than half that! What’s the money actually for? In the spring of 2017, PRI published The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change edited and largely written by Ingrid Zabel, Rob Ross, Alexandra Moore, and myself. The book provides both a solid overview of the physical science, and discussions of and approaches to those special challenges of teaching this content. The book is also friendly to more than just teachers. If you'd like to learn more about climate change - and about how to talk about it more productively with others - buy the book or download the free pdf. The work was done with support from the National Science Foundation, allowing us to make the pdf of the 284-page book available free, but we know that many people prefer real print books. We launched a crowdfunding campaign to send print copies of the book to as many teachers as we can. This campaign is intended to help get meaningful, scientifically accurate materials into the hands of teachers. Please help us out. Donate if you can, and please spread the word about both the book and the crowdfunding campaign! Here's the link: http://bit.ly/TeachClimateScience Cheers, Don