About EarthLab.com - The EarthLab Foundation:
EarthLab.com is a leading climate crisis community that provides a practical guide to green living through community interaction, exclusive environmental news, advice from experts and key analysis. EarthLab features a personalized Carbon Calculator, the first Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator of its kind - a unique three-minute survey that generates a carbon footprint score (ECP Score), which members can then save, work to reduce and track their success over time - as a member creates their own personal green strategy.
EarthLab was founded by internet community pioneer and social entrepreneur Duane Dahl who maintains the belief that technology has the power to make a positive, long-term contribution to solving the world’s environmental challenges through education and localized analysis.
The EarthLab calculator was first presented to a global audience on July 7, 2007 in conjunction with the Live Earth Concerts staged throughout the world. The Carbon Calculator has become the most widely used calculator in the world.
EarthLab has forged partnerships with numerous world-class brands and organizations including the Alliance for Climate Protection, chaired by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore, Live Earth, SOS – the movement for a climate in crisis, Vespa Scooters, Hearst / The Daily Green, The Prime Time Emmy’s, Leo DiCaprio’s, The 11th Hour, Dell Computers, eSurance, Terremark Worldwide, world-class chef and restaurateur Mario Batali and The Carbon Challenge, an international sailing team preparing for Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 and The America's Cup.
The EarthLab Foundation is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. The foundation provides functional outreach and reverse research and educational efforts in part through EarthLab.com.
EarthLab maintains test and content accuracy by working with data provided in part by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Greenercars.org, Energy Information Administration (EIA), American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and the Alliance for Climate Protection. Test scores are directly linked to each member’s ECP.
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EarthLab Foundation Executive Team:
Anna Rising, Executive Director
Anna leads the Foundation's mission and is focused on strategic priorities, global development, monitoring results, and facilitating relationships with key partners. Anna has a diverse background that spans both the corporate and the non-profit sectors. Her long history of local and national political involvement includes organizing, fundraising and strategizing at all levels, as well as congressional campaign management.
Anna's non-profit experience includes participation on numerous boards and committees focused on environmental, political, community and animal welfare issues. She has often been elected to leadership roles through her management, organizational and fundraising skills. Prior to joining EarthLab, Anna was a Senior Vice President at Kennedy Klein, LLC and was Vice President at ROI International. Her experience also includes international joint venture consulting and property management, as well as regional sales management, and executive management for environmental service companies.
Anna received the President's Volunteer Action Award, awarded by President George H.W. Bush in April 1989, for her extensive volunteer work with rescuing and rehabilitating marine mammals at the California Marine Mammal Center. She was a contributing writer for the United Nations/Sierra Club International Committee publication: One world, many nations – protecting our Global Environment. Distributed at the United Nations Environmental Conference in 1990. After Hurricane Katrina, she took four trips to New Orleans to rescue pets left behind after the hurricane. Anna is also featured in the book, RESCUED: Saving Animals from Disaster, and in the soon to be published, Embrace of Faith: Animal Rescue in America. She has participated in numerous international research projects focused on species and environmental preservation.
Anna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with an emphasis in International Relations, from the University of Washington and a Certificate in Hazardous Materials Management from University of California Santa Cruz.