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 9 per project per month or 99 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 http://www.demo.com/.

Celsias

CONTACT: 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

Web site: http://www.celsias.com/
http://www.demo.com/