Eco educator Rebecca Phyland will visit Tennessee later this month for a three-day workshop with Al Gore, a former United States vice-president who quit politics to highlight the perils of global warming.

The Narrawong resident has a background in high school teaching and was chosen to learn more about Gore's new book Our Choice, which offers solutions to heal the planet.

"We have all the technologies already, we just need the political and the community willpower to put them in place," she said.

Ms Phyland, one of 12 Australians selected to take part in the training, said she hoped it would complement her efforts as a volunteer presenter with The Climate Project, another initiative led by Gore.

"I think it will give me closer networks with the international presenters," she said.

"At the moment we have access to each other just by an online forum, but it's hard to link up with people you don't really know and have real discussions about the issues."

The 33-year-old manages Thornbill Eco Education with her husband, Tim Stephens, and said her regular work with Narrawong and Koroit primary school students was inspirational.

"If we can actually get eight-year-olds to live their life sustainably. We don't have to wait until they're adults to teach them how to live sustainably," the mother of twin girls said.

"Every individual can make choices that cumulatively make a big difference."