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September 5, 2007

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U.S. Satellite Presents its Programming at the United Nations

New York, NY, September 7, 2007—In a session entitled: Small Steps - Big Effect: What Families and Children Can Do to Help Reverse Global Warming, Glen Schuster and Meghan Marrero presented at the 60th annual U.N. DPI/NGO conference empowering the audience to understand the real issues in the actions against climate change and to affect change in local communities.

Schuster, U.S. Satellite's Founder, a meteorologist and scientist educator, laid out the scale and misconceptions of the carbon problem while addressing popular ad campaigns working to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Marrero, a Doctoral Student at Teachers College/Columbia University, introduced U.S. Satellite's Earth Systems Unit from NASA-sponsored Project 3D-VIEW. In the Unit, students learn how Earth's natural cycles interact, how energy flows in the Earth system, and how humans affect the Earth system. The curriculum-based unit allows students to build their own web sites and to design a sustainable school, expanding the reach of today's youth on this important topic.

photo of Glen Schuster and Meghan Marrero presenting at the U.N.

photo of Glen Schuster and Meghan Marrero presenting at the U.N.