One Year Ago Today – Al Gore testifies to Congress (REMIX)
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Tag: Climate Change
Gore Launches Climate Project in India
from Al Gore’s Blog:
“Last week I visited New Delhi, India to launch the Climate Project in that nation. India has proven its capability in sectors like information technology and now has the opportunity to be a leader in the world in developing new renewable technologies to combat climate change.”
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Email from Al: He’s Going to Bali
From: info@climateprotect.org
Subject: Stand with me in Bali
Date: December 5, 2007 3:31:53 PM EST
Dear Friend,
In Bali, Indonesia thousands of delegates from nearly 190 countries have gathered at the UN Conference on Climate Change. In ten days, I will address the conference to urge the adoption of a visionary new treaty to address global warming and I want to bring your voices with me.
Click here to sign my petition today and I will bring your signatures on stage with me as a clear demonstration of our resolve:
http://climateprotect.org/standwithalRead more »
Power to the People: "Current Viewpoints"
I love getting email from Al Gore (sent through his blog’s mailing list, not sent to me personally), but today’s message was especially interesting (with my red/bold highlights):
“Dear Carol,Current, the media company I co-founded six years ago with my partner Joel Hyatt, just last week launched a new web site that integrates television and the Web in an unprecedented way. It provides, as never before, a platform for citizens to make the media their own.Read more »
Not On My Christmas List: Garbage Patch Kids
“Continent-size” swath of trash in Pacific, via San Francisco Chronicle:
” In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.
The enormous stew of trash – which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers – floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii.”
Gore & Climate Panel Won Nobel
via CNN.com on 10/12/07
Former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize today for their efforts to draw attention to the issue of climate change. The honor comes as a group of Democrats is urging Gore to jump into the race for the White House.
Al Gore’s Speech at the UN
Follow this link (Real Media) to watch Al Gore’s speech on climate change at the United Nations.
Lights Out San Francisco: October 20, 2007
from their web site:
“Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event on Oct. 20, 2007. On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. “
Ad Agencies Competing for Climate Campaign
From Advertising Age:
“…one of the most hotly contended pitches out there is for the Alliance for Climate Protection, the organization formed last year by Al Gore.
Four elite agencies — Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the Martin Agency and Y&R — are squaring off for the business and are expected to present to the former vice president himself early next month, according to executives familiar with the review. The budget for the “historic, three-to-five-year, multimedia global campaign,” as the request for proposals puts it, is contingent on how much money the alliance raises. Media spending will likely be more than $100 million a year.”
Story here