Celsias Launches First Project Website for Fighting Global Warming

Celsias Projects Inspires Users to Create, Join and Sponsor Climate-Change
Projects

PALM DESERT, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Celsias.com announced today
at DEMO 08 the launch of Celsias Projects, the first online destination where
people and companies can create, join or sponsor global warming projects.
"People's awareness of global warming is growing and so is their desire to
do something about it," said Nick Lewis, CEO of Celsias, "But the enormity of
the problem is overwhelming -- what should an individual or company do to save
the planet? We created Celsias to provide a solution by inspiring and
facilitating projects that help reduce global warming. Our dream is to cool
the planet one project at a time."
Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences said, "Celsias
Projects introduces a new form of online interaction that could easily be
called 'action networking' -- people coming together to support one another to
take action and turn climate-cooling ideas into projects that make a
difference in altering the course of global warming. We are delighted to have
them launch Celsias Projects at DEMO 08."
The Celsias Community: Ordinary People Achieving Extraordinary Things for
the Planet
The Celsias community is comprised of project leaders (who create and
manage projects) and project sponsors (for people who prefer to
financially-support projects). Leaders and sponsors can include anyone from
an elementary-school child to a corporate executive.
Among the more than 50 early participants using the beta version of
Celsias Projects are a recent college graduate who rode his bicycle across the
United States to raise awareness of climate change; a woman on leave from the
U.S. Army who traveled to Antarctica to interview international climate change
scientists; and a software entrepreneur who is turning a dilapidated building
into a "green" hotel. These and many other project leaders use Celsias
Projects to share their experience and seek input, support, ideas and
sponsorship from the Celsias community.
Creating a Celsias Project: From Ideas to Action
Once a project leader has an idea for a climate change project, creating a
Celsias Project is easy; he or she simply completes a handful of fields. The
leader can then add pictures and maps, activate a donation widget, link to
posts on the Celsias blog, direct people to a physical location, announce team
meetings, organize workdays and keep sponsors updated on a mini project blog.
The Celsias Business Model: Serving Public and Private Projects
Celsias also expects the corporate market to find Celsias Projects
compelling. "We believe companies of all sizes will begin managing their
corporate social responsibility projects using Celsias' secure and
confidential environment," Lewis said. "Again, we make it easy -- you can
create a transparent public project on Celsias at no charge. Or you can
create a confidential private project and limit access to your employees for
only $29 per project per month or $299 per year -- you decide."
The company also plans to charge commissions to vendors that sell their
green products on Celsias.
About Celsias
Founded in 2006, Celsias (http://www.celsias.com) helps ordinary people do
extraordinary things by creating, joining and sponsoring climate change
projects. The Celsias is already recognized as a leading climate change blog
with writers and readers in more than 120 countries. Web traffic to
Celsias.com grew at a compound growth rate of 65.2% per month during the first
14 months of operation.
About DEMO
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual
DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are
hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The
DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying
tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for
companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them
to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and
influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new
companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit
www.demo.com.
SOURCE Celsias

Nick Lewis of Celsias, 011-644-473-9623, nick.lewis@celsias.com; or Whitney
Phaneuf of Antenna Group (US), +1-415-977-1916, whitney@antennagroup.com, for
Celsias; or Brenda Saunders of Trio Communications (NZ), 011-649-307-2213,
brenda@triocommunications.co.nz, for Celsias