Trunity Holdings Announces Appointment of Professor Cutler

NEWBURYPORT, MA--(Marketwired - Jul 23, 2013) - Trunity Holdings, Inc. ( OTCBB : TNTY ) ( OTCQB : TNTY ) (" Trunity "), the creator of the Trunity eLearning Platform that empowers higher education , K-12, corporate enterprises and government agencies worldwide to create, manage and share knowledge, today announced the appointment of Professor Cutler J. Cleveland, Ph.D., as the Company's Chief Education Officer. Reporting directly to Trunity Chairman and CEO Terry Anderton, Dr. Cleveland is charged with improving and connecting all of Trunity's innovative online education resources and capabilities with subject matter experts, faculty and learning institutions that serve students from kindergarten through professional accreditation programs.

Dr. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. He is the co-author of the digital textbook Environmental Science ,Trunity's bestselling and most often used digital course material. Currently, the digital text is used at Boston University, Spokane Community College, Highpoint University, State University of New York, University of California/Monterey Bay and the University of Redlands -- with approximately 50 additional U.S. higher educational institutions considering it for their 2013-2014 academic year. In addition, Dr. Cleveland authored Energy Transitions on the Trunity eLearning Platform , which is currently taught at Boston University and available to students through the Trunity Knowledge Exchange . 

Dr. Cleveland is also Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, Editor of the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), co-author of the Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, 2013), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth . He is the recipient of the Adelman-Frankel Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics for "unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics." 

To date, Dr. Cleveland's research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the MacArthur Foundation. He has published his findings in journals such as Nature , Science , Ecological Modeling , Energy , The Energy Journal , The Annual Review of Energy , Resource and Energy Economics , the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin , the Canadian Journal of Forest Research and Ecological Economics.  Dr. Cleveland has been a consultant to numerous private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Charles River Associates, the Energy Information Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics, the American Library Association and the National Wildlife Federation.

Dr. Cleveland holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology from Cornell University, a Master of Science degree in Marine Science from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Commenting on the appointment, Trunity CEO, Terry Anderton, noted, "We are delighted to welcome Professor Cleveland to Trunity's senior leadership team. As the co-author of the first living digital textbook of its kind, Professor Cleveland has firsthand experience with Trunity's powerful capabilities that dramatically decrease the time, cost and effort of developing, managing and delivering learning content. Consequently, he is ideally qualified to help Trunity drive awareness and adoption of Trunity's transformational eLearning platform as we commence our first authoring campaign in August of this year. Dr. Culter will continue to provide on-going webinars to the authoring community demonstating the ease of adopting the Trunity platform and providing continual support as Chief Education Officer." 

About Trunity Holdings, Inc. Founded in 2009, Trunity Holdings, Inc. ( OTCBB : TNTY ) ( OTCQB : TNTY ) (" Trunity ") has developed a collaborative knowledge management, publishing and education delivery platform, which provides an end-to-end solution for the rapidly growing eTextbook, eLearning and enterprise training marketplaces. As a result of the platform's innovative multi-tenant cloud-based architecture, Trunity allows content from multiple sources to be assembled into customized living digital textbooks and courseware and delivered with real-time updates directly to the student on any Internet-enabled computer or mobile device. The content powered by Trunity is seamlessly integrated with learning management, social collaboration, standards alignment, real-time analytics and royalty-tracking functionality. Trunity currently hosts a growing global community of over 4,300 expert contributors made up of top scientists and educators, who create peer-reviewed educational content. The Company's clients include leading colleges, universities, K-12 schools, corporate enterprises and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Trunity has operations in North America, Ukraine and India. For more information, visit http://www.trunity.com/ .

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