Ice cream to help Arctic warming

Jerry Greenfield was in London last week to launch a college that will train 20 or so young people as “ambassadors” for climate change awareness, says the Guardian.

Jerry is better known as one half of Ben & Jerry, makers of expensive ice creams with funny names and chunky bits of cake and candy. Jerry and Ben Cohen sold the company to the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever in 1999.

The two remain involved with the company, mainly with promoting its social and environmental causes, of which the Ben & Jerry’s Climate Change College is a part.

The college is a three-year initiative that will offer six people between the ages of 18 and 25 in the UK and the Netherlands the chance to learn about climate change through workshops, internships and a visit to the polar region.

Jerry hopes they will then use that training, and the resources of the World Wildlife Federation and Ben & Jerry’s, to raise awareness about climate change.