Izabella Miko and the EkoMiko Foundation announced that it has joined Al Gore, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and Surfrider in supporting Dot Eco LLC’s application to create a new “.eco” top level domain.

“Dot Eco LLC and the EkoMiko Foundation share a similar mission – to promote environmental awareness in new and innovative ways. Dot Eco LLC has our full support for its application to ICANN for the .eco top level domain.,” said Izabella Miko, the EkoMiko Foundation’s founder and CEO.

“We fully support Izabella Miko’s tireless work for the environment, and her vision for the EkoMiko Foundation. We greatly appreciate her support for our .eco initiative,” said Clark Landry, co-founder of Dot Eco LLC.

The EkoMiko Foundation was founded by renowned actress Izabella Miko (www.izabellamiko.com) to promote environmental awareness and activism through eco videoblogs, events and contests created especially for the members of the EkoMiko Gang. Ms. Miko has a featured role as Athena in the recently-released motion picture Clash of the Titans, and has an extensive acting resume including roles in such feature films as Coyote Ugly, The House of Usher, Save the Last Dance 2, and HBO series Deadwood. In 2010 Ms. Miko will be featured in in Double Identity, where she stars with Val Kilmer, and Repo, where she starts with Jason Mewes.

Websites and email addresses ending in .eco will enable individuals to express their support for environmental causes, companies to promote their environmental initiatives and environmental organizations to maintain their websites in a namespace that is more relevant to their core missions. By charter and mission, the majority of the profits of the .eco initiative will be distributed to non-profits to support environmental causes.

About Dot Eco LLC

Dot Eco LLC was founded by Fred Krueger, Clark Landry and Minor Childers to secure, operate and promote the .eco top level domain in order to promote environmental initiatives and awareness. Dot Eco LLC will be applying for the .eco top level domain through the new ICANN gTLD application process. For more information visit www.supportdoteco.com.

About the EkoMiko Foundation

The EkoMiko Foundation was founded by renowned actress Izabella Miko (www.izabellamiko.com) to promote environmental awareness and activism. Ms. Miko has a featured role as Athena in the recently-released motion picture Clash of the Titans and has an extensive acting resume including starring roles in such feature films as Coyote Ugly, and HBO series Deadwood. For more information about the EkoMiko Foundation visit www.ekomiko.com

ICANN, the organization in charge of approving and assigning top level domains, is accepting public comment on a potential plan to accept “Expressions of Interest” (EOI). This would give companies such as Dot Eco TLD the opportunity to tell ICANN that we want to create an environmental top level domain.

We believe that Expressions of Interest are the next crucial step towards making new top level domains a reality because:

• EOI will help ICANN prepare for the new TLD applications process by providing useful information about the potential applicants.
• EOI will help ICANN determine how many organizations, companies and countries plan to apply for their own TLD.
• EOI will bring transparency to the pre-application process. This is important for everyone who is considering applying for a new top level domain!

In order to be effective, Dot Eco believes that the EOI process must:

• Require a fee to discourage companies from “gaming the system” and ensuring that only applicants that are serious participate.
• Have a specified timeframe to reach out and make sure that potential applicants are aware of the process.
• Have a limited timeframe that does not allow the EOI process to unduly delay the application period.
• Be a pre-requisite for applying for top level domain.

How can you help?

ICANN is accepting comments on whether or not to proceed with Expressions of Interest. Let them know that they should move to accept EOI! Be sure to let ICANN know your reasons for supporting the EOI. This will help the Board to make an informed decision.

Click here for information about how to submit your comment to ICANN.

Your actions now can help move us forward towards the creation of an environmental domain.

Watch this video with Dot Eco President Minor Childers and CNN Local Edition host Brad Pomerance. They discuss carbon offsets and how the World Carbon Database will monitor voluntary offset purchasers. Then visit the World Carbon Database website.

Catherine A. Novelli, the vice president of worldwide government affairs at Apple, wrote a letter addressed to Thomas J. Donohue, president and chief executive of the United States Chamber of Commerce announcing Apple’s resignation. You can view the letter here.

Apple isn’t alone in disagreeing with the chamber – three large utilities have resigned in recent weeks, and Nike withdrew from the chamber board, all for the same reason.

“We are thrilled to join forces with these organizations to help further the Dot Eco initiative and raise awareness about the growing threats to our environment. These partnerships represent an important step towards the implementation of the .ECO top level domain,” said group co-founder Clark Landry.

Websites ending in .eco will enable individuals to express their support for environmental causes, companies to promote their environmental initiatives and environmental organizations to maintain their websites in a namespace that is more relevant to their core missions. By charter and mission, over 50% of the profits of the .eco initiative will be distributed to support environmental causes.

The .eco top level domain application of Dot Eco LLC is officially endorsed by Al Gore, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and Surfrider. The advisory board of Dot Eco LLC includes Davis Guggenheim (director of An Inconvenient Truth), Roger Moore (renowned actor and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF), Richard Muller (Author of Physics for Future Presidents and contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and Jim Dufour of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The following organizations announced their support of the “.eco” top level domain as proposed by Dot Eco LLC:

Green Aviation International is comprised of aviation professionals, visionary leaders and partners in the aviation industry, environmental experts, carbon experts, government agencies, and NGOs working to produce a number of practical, low-cost solutions to help airlines reduce their impact upon the environment. Green Aviation International plans to set up green and sustainable aviation subsidiaries as well as develop new aviation products and services for travel businesses and the flying public.

Green Works Environmental Services addresses the growing needs of the business community by providing a range of environmental services and solutions. These services allow California businesses to become environmentally-aligned and compliant with federal, state, county, and city requirements.

Carbon Smart provides their clients with regular insights into carbon-saving tactics, green technology and expert views from their academic panel of carbon specialists. Carbon Smart provides practical, intelligent solutions to help businesses reduce costs, win business, manage risk and engage stakeholders in the low carbon economy.

The Renewable Energy Co-operative team (R-ECO) offers renewable energy implementation and renewable energy education. They provide solar photo-voltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, ground source heat pumps, biomass boilers and micro-wind technologies. R-ECO has provided educational talks on topics such as off-grid renewable energy, climate change, environmental management systems and environmental impact assessment.

Lighter Footstep has been a leader in practical green living. This popular green lifestyle website has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, has been voted one of Read/Write Web’s Top 35 Environmental Websites, and has been cited by Wikipedia, Lifehacker, Treehugger, and dozens of the Web’s most popular destinations.

GreenovationTV is the world’s first internet TV channel for healthy, energy & water saving, green home improvements with a mission to help green the 130 million inefficient and sometimes unhealthy homes in the U.S., through practical advice and real solutions. Greenovation.TV delivers free 24/7 on-demand access to fast-paced and entertaining how-to videos that show all the ways to green a home and reduce energy consumption.

Dot Eco LLC also recently announced that renowned activist, Mark Massara, joined the initiative as its Chief Policy Officer to oversee policy development and legal concerns for the new top-level domain. This came shortly after Jim Dufour, Associate Director at Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Instrument Development Group, joined the initiative as the group’s Chief Environmental Officer.

About Dot Eco LLC

Dot Eco LLC was founded by Fred Krueger, Clark Landry and Minor Childers to secure, operate and promote the .eco top level domain in order to promote environmental initiatives and awareness. Dot Eco LLC will be applying for the .eco top level domain through the ICANN gTLD application process in early 2010. For more information visit www.supportdoteco.com.

“The environmental group finds that rural Midwestern states will face the greatest consequences of climate change. The three that will face the steepest rise in temperature — Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa — are farm states whose soil will be significantly less productive as temperatures rise more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit there by 2100.”

Read more about this article here: Small Midwestern States To Be Hit Hardest By Climate Change: Report