Al Gore will be in Iowa to train 'climate solvers'

Iowans who want to take a lead on climate change advocacy will have the opportunity to learn from a global crusader on the issue: former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore and his Climate Reality project have scheduled four training sessions this year – in India, Iowa, Canada and Florida – to teach people how to best "take on the climate crisis."

Applications are now being accepted for the Iowa session May 5-7 in Cedar Rapids, according to his organization's website.

The free three-day session teaches activists how to present a slideshow adapted from Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Graduates are required to do 10 "acts of leadership" in the next year by writing letters to the editor, writing blogs, giving press interviews, communicating with government officials and organizing days of action, the website says.

"Big Polluters — like politically connected oil and coal companies — dumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change and making billions while the rest of us pay to clean up their mess," the website says. "We know we can solve climate disruption by turning from dirty fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy."

The Climate Reality Leadership Corps has done 27 trainings around the world since 2006.