GLOBAL GREEN USA's 14th ANNUAL MILLENNIUM AWARDS HONORS OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2010

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to deliver Keynote Address

Los Angeles, CA – May 26, 2010 – Global Green USA will welcome celebrity guests and leaders from the Hollywood, business and environmental communities at its 14th Annual Millennium Awards on Saturday, June 12th 2010 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will deliver the evening’s keynote address. 

Honorees at the 14th Annual Millennium Awards include:

• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which will receive the International Environmental Leadership Award marking their 40th anniversary as a federal agency, and whose role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is critical and growing.
• The University of California System, whose President, Mark G. Yudof will accept the California Environmental Leadership Award for the UC System’s expansive leadership in constructing green buildings on their campuses, and other climate change initiatives.
• The W Hollywood Hotel & Residences, represented by Marty Collins of Gatehouse Capital, who will receive the Green Building Environmental Leadership Award for the newly opened and first LEED certified hotel in Los Angeles, which is built above a metro station in Hollywood.

Global Green USA’s Board of directors has also decided to bestow the Founders Award upon their President and CEO, as well as co-founder, Matt Petersen, who has led the organization for 15 years. Global Green’s 14th Annual Millennium Awards is chaired by Bob Bucklin, Leonardo Dicaprio, Jim Gianopulos, Tom Roell, Tom Rothman, Diane Meyer Simon and co-chaired by Sebastian Copeland, Salma Hayek, Zem Joaquin, Lyn & Norman Lear, Pat Mitchell & Scott Seydel, Ann & Jerry Moss, and Lynda & Stuart Resnick.

The Millennium Awards acknowledge and honor individuals whose lives and careers exemplify Global Green USA’s mission of “fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure world.”  The event raises funds to support the organization’s initiatives to rebuild a green New Orleans; to create green affordable housing and green schools in Los Angeles, throughout California and nationally; and to continue to advocate for innovative and effective policy initiatives to combat climate change.

For more information or to purchase tickets to the 14th Annual Millennium Awards please go to www.globalgreen.org/millennium or call Michael Teta Associates at 818.906.0240.

Media inquiries and requests to cover the event can be directed to Andy Gelb or Stephanie Samson of Slate PR at (323) 556-0444.

Global Green USA – the American arm of President Gorbachev’s Green Cross International – was founded in 1994, and is a national leader in advocating for smart solutions to climate change that benefit humanity by saving energy, reducing CO2 emissions, improving health, creating green jobs, and securing a more sustainable future. For more than 15 years, Global Green has greened nearly $20 billion in new school and affordable housing construction; authored multiple state and national laws and policies on green building, climate change and energy-efficiency; and responded to environmental disasters from hurricanes, to chemical weapons dumping, to sea level rise and the melting of the poles. Global Green is the only national environmental group headquartered in Southern California and has offices in New Orleans and Washington, DC.