My husband and I both drive Toyotas – mine is the Prius (you could guess it if you got my ecology bent by reading prior blog posts), and Larry’s is a Lexus. For me, the decision was a “duh.” Toyota is a company that puts its money where it’s intentions are, and here is an example.
The 10 hottest years in history have occurred since 1990. Cool Globes is an educational display intended to inform students and citizens how they might make a difference. It travels from city to city. The Cool Globes came to our neighborhood (the Embarcadero and Seaport Village).
Sponsored by Toyota, this traveling exhibit was created by national and international artists, as well as school children, who designed the globes using a variety of materials to transform a plain white sphere to create awareness and provoke discussion about a potential solution to global warming. Each globe is five feet in diameter, seven-and-one-half feet tall and weighs 2,300 pounds.
I am impressed with Toyota for stepping up to this amazing educational opportunity. A May 23, 2008 Press Release included this quote. “At Toyota, our commitment to the environment goes beyond our products and our plants,” said Pat Pineda, group vice president of Toyota Motor North America. “We also support organizations that promote environmental education and those that develop sustainable solutions to improve our communities. We’re proud to support Cool Globes and its efforts to raise awareness about the critical issue of climate change and what can be done to combat it.”
How cool is that! Wouldn’t you like more of THAT news on our newspaper’s front pages? I would. I can only imagine that Pat Pineda is a very proud and satisfied executive. Nice work, Pat! I noticed, and I thank you.
This picture is one of the Cool Globes with many of the others in the background, circling around the Embarcadero on a walk toward Seaport Village.
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