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ZapRoot: An Inconvenient Truth Sequel?

On this week’s episode: Al Gore is planning on making An Inconvenient Truth 2 - but not really, Crocs starts recycling and donating their “shoes,” Green Gorilla will entertain and educate your kids, and we check in on some Green Celebs.

Testing the Climate

Climate Crisis Coalition 
By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, December 24, 2007. “Last week, Al Gore, at the start of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, took note of a curious coincidence. Almost exactly seven years earlier — on December 12, 2000 — the United States Supreme Court had called a halt to the Florida recount, thereby un-electing him [...]

Al Gore - Time Magazine Person of the Year, Runner-Up

Climate Crisis Coalition
Commentary by Bono, Time Magazine, December 23, 2007. “Al Gore is the kind of leader these times require. Not as President — God and the Electoral College have given him a different job. As it happens, Al is at work repositioning his country from the inside out as a leader in clean energy; and along [...]

Don’t run for President, Mr Gore

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Al Gore giving his global warming talk in California
18 October 2007
Last week’s award of the Nobel peace prize signals the coming of age of the public communication of science.
There have been few more significant endorsements of the importance of science communication in bridging the gap between research and policy than the [...]

This just in…act now

 

 

Last week, our founder and chairman Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless efforts to help solve the global climate crisis. But he’s not working alone — millions of people across the country and around the world know that climate change is a critical issue that we need to act [...]

All Al All the Time: For Whom the Nobel Tolls

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Gore Jr walking with his senator father, Al Gore, from the Capitol Building with his mother Pauline and sister Nancy, from the Guardian
Another great writer, David Roberts at Grist, on why Gore should not run for president:
If he entered the race, Gore would run headlong into the same dim-bulb, theatrics-obsessed political press that did him [...]

All Al All the Time: Alex Steffen Sums It Up

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Young Al Gore, from a great photo essay of his life at the Guardian.
I know, it is a lot of posts, but it is an important event. Someday I hope to be able to write as well as Alex Steffen at Worldchanging, who explains why it is so important:
“Now this is not the end. It [...]

Live Earth: Scientists set to Rock Antarctica to Deliver on Gore’s Promise for Music on Every Continent

TreeHuggerThe band Nunatak, the Greenlandic word that means an exposed summit of a ridge mountain or peak within an ice field or glacier, will be rocking the ice 7.7.07 for their 17 on-site colleagues and also for, well, the rest of the world. Former Vice President Gore personally reached out to the band, not [...]

Vandana Shiva & Why We Need More Trees

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We had the pleasure to meet a true treehugger in Barcelona this weekend: Vandana Shiva. She’s also a physicist, philosopher, eco-feminist and writer from India, who participates, together with Al Gore, in building a “green barrier” of 100 Million trees in Spain to fight global warming.
Check out our video from the press conference the day [...]