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Al Gore Not Looking to be 'Climate Czar' and Won't Accept if Offered
It’s still up in the air whether president-elect Barack Obama will decide to create a new position of White House ‘Climate Czar’, but one thing’s for certain: Al Gore won’t be taking the job.
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This Month in Mother Jones: Rescuing the Economy and Saving the Planet
The March/April issue of Mother Jones set a high water-mark for coverage of clean energy. The latest issue, which includes contributions from Al Gore, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bill McKibben and Grist's David Roberts, does the
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5 Questions For 5 Green Heavyweights: What I'd Want to Talk About Over Drinks
I don't know about you but, as a writer and someone who likes to make lists, I keep a checklist of people who I'd just love to sit down with and not necessarily do an interview, but simply chat with about mutual interests. In the case
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Al Gore and Power Vote Team Up to Get Out The Green Vote (Video Clip)
With the US presidential elections happening in less than a week, Power Vote pulled out all the stops in a live webcast with Al Gore last night urging young people to get out there and cast a ballot in favor of renewable
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Al Gore Speaks at West Coast Green 2008
Al Gore was the keynote speaker for this final day of West Coast Green.
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AmIGreenOrNot Online Community Breeds Green Camaraderie and Competition
Social networking is quickly becoming the way we operate today, including green living. Websites that let people talk with one another to get ideas on how to live more greenly and support one another in their decisions are part of this new way of life.
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Highlights from the 1st day of the Clinton Global Initiative
Former President Bill Clinton seemed happy to be in his role of statesman again on the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - an event which gathers government leaders, business leaders, rock stars, and sports heroes who work together to
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West Coast Green 2008 Goes Solar Powered with SolaRover
West Coast Green has partnered up with SolaRover in order to power a handful of major areas of the event via the sun, proving that the conference is doing more than just talk about green innovation. The endeavor is also setting records for San Jose's
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Al Gore Eyeing "Plenty" Magazine?
The Goracle might be getting into the magazine business, according to Portfolio.com. According to blabby "sources" close to the former veep, Inconvenient Truth-ster, and Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore is thisclose to announcing the acquisition of a stake
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Gearing Up For West Coast Green 2008
Photo Credit: West Coast Green West Coast Green is only a week away and we're getting excited! WCG is an annual event in which anyone and everyone involved in green innovation, technology and design in the building industry gathers together to show off
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West Coast Green 2008 To Highlight Emerging Green Building Technologies
This year's West Coast Green 2008 conference will feature a technology "innovation pipeline" highlighting the future of renewable energy products. Each of these products are new to the market or right out of development.
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10 Steps to Renewable Energy Future: A TreeHugger Review
As I'm sure most TreeHugger readers are aware, Al Gore recently articulated his vision of how the United States can combat climate change, help national security and reinvigorate the economy through an ambitious plan to generate
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Al Gore's Repowering America Speech Video Clip
For those people who'd rather watch than read Al Gore's Repowering America speech, given yesterday at D.A.R. Constitution Hall, here is the speech in its entirety. No Keynote magic or scissor risers like in his "An Inconvenient Truth" presentations,
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Survey: Al Gore's Moon Shot Speech- Is Anybody Listening?
It is a terrific, powerful barnburner of a speech that connected the economic, environmental and national security dots. Al Gore issues a challenge: to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean
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"A Generational Challenge to Repower America": Al Gore's Energy & Climate 'Moon Shot' Speech
Today at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., Al Gore delivered a speech which outlines his vision of how the United States needs another 'moon shot' to solve the
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth To Be Staged As Opera
We hope it's not a tragic one where all the main characters die in the end: The Associated Press is reporting that Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is going to be staged as an opera. From lecture halls to film, okay we get it. From film to books, a
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It's Climate That Changes, But Weather That Kills You
What makes the tragedy in Burma so horrifying? Is it the clearing of the mangroves? Is it the venality and cruelty of the Burmese junta that is not letting relief workers in while it is actually shipping out rice to Bangladesh to "meet
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San Fran's Mayor Newsom To Ride Israel's Electric Car Wave?
Judging by the stretch limos and police escorts whirling through my neighborhood today, it sounds like George W. Bush's entourage has landed in Jerusalem. Al Gore is due to come next week to collect a cool $1 million prize at Tel Aviv University
