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Al Gore: Uncommitted Superdelegate Committed to Stopping Climate Change
On Friday night I went to see Al Gore at Radio City Music Hall. The former Vice President walked onto the stage to thunderous applause and a fan shouted, "You rock Al!" (Although, I'm an obsessive Gore fan- that wasn't me). Al has been
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Al Gore Readies Sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth"
In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Al Gore finally revealed what many had long been hoping for: a proper sequel to his game-changing 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Lamenting that relatively little - aside from a
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Gandhi, King, and Climate Change
The following opinion piece was submitted by Jonathan F. P. Rose, co-founder of the Garrison Institute and president of Jonathan Rose Companies, a network of multidisciplinary planning and development firms. He is a well known proponent of smart growth
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TH Blog Love - Our Favourite Greens Of The Week
Conserve Plastic Bags: Carnival of The Green #121 by Michelle Verges "As I read this week's posts, I really began to appreciate and admire all the good things folks are doing in their part of the world. It's great to take a break from the usual (and
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Al Gore Announces Big Climate Change Ad Campaign
In a rare interview appearance on CBS News' 60 Minutes, Al Gore took the wraps off a colossal new $300m ad campaign intended to (forcefully) inject the topic of climate change into the presidential contest. As we and many other commentators have noted
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Friends of Coal Put Out the Word
Catherine Porter toured West Virginia and writes an astonishing article in the Star about mountaintop removal coal mining. It doesn't take too many people to mine coal this way; in 1950 there were 120,000 coal miners and now there are only 21,000. So
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Al Gore to Collect a Cool $1 Million Prize at Tel Aviv University
It just goes to show you how much the environment has become a sign of the times. Al Gore is set to fly into Israel in May to collect a cool $1 million dollar cash award presented by the Dan David Foundation, housed at Tel Aviv University.
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Time To Ditch Those Sub-Prime Carbon Assets
It's pretty easy to flag those sub-prime carbon assets too. They're the companies with the huge energy bills. They're the ones lobbying Congress to go easy on the carbon cap, and to"do something" to prevent power plants from burning up all the natural
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Spinal Tap's Custom "Global Warming" Guitar for Sale on eBay
If you were inspired by Spinal Tap's reunion at last summer's Live Earth concert and "Warmer than Hell," their new single that accompanied the band's return to the spotlight, have we got something for you: Nigel Tufnel's one-of-a-kind, custom-made
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Climate Crusaders Reunite: Inside Al Gore's Climate Project (Part II)
[Ed. note: This is the second of two guest posts (here's Part I) by Katie Carpenter, a Discovery Hot House producer. Part of the original group trained to give Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' slide show, she recently met up with the other climate
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Climate Crusaders Reunite: Inside Al Gore's Climate Project (Part I)
[Ed. note: This is the first of two guest posts by Katie Carpenter, a Discovery Hot House producer. Part of the original group trained to give Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' slide show, she recently met up with the other climate crusaders to update
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TH Forums Highlights: Light Bulb Moments, Mass Transit + More
1) Forums user davidari poses an interesting question to the community: "What information -- and please be specific -- won you over to the concept of anthropogenic
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The Year Ahead With Bill Mott
This post is part of an ongoing series. To access all the profiles in this series, visit The Year Ahead. Who: Bill Mott, director of the Ocean Project, a Rhode Island-based non-profit that helps hundreds of zoos, museums, aquariums, and conservation
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The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
It's called The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See, and it's taking the web by storm. Essentially, it's little more than a high school science teacher named Greg Craven, set up in his home with a whiteboard and a felt-tipped marker.
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Quote of the Day: Al Gore on Hockey
How did we miss this? Evidently when Canada's environment minister was being a complete obstructionist jerk in Bali, Al Gore called the country out with a pointed hockey analogy that is not quite Bob Dylan's "You don't have to be a weatherman to know
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Best of 2007: Stories That Made Us Laugh
Though the world of green tends to be a pretty serious place, we found ourselves laughing more than once this past year; some
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How Do We Break The Climate Taboo In Presidential Debates?
That producers and moderators of US Presidential debates have thus far largely excluded climate change as a suitable topic seems to be a growing source of irritation. Check out this video from What Are They Waiting For? Questioners in the sanctioned
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Our Favorite Things
The end of any year casts a shadow of reflection on accomplishments and importantly, on what could have been done in the last 12 months. However, this year, 2007, saw progress in addressing our generation's most pressing challenges — how to slow
