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Child's Play
Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Mar 2007 |
Main Dish |
| The planet's future is up to you, kids ... but no pressure. Photo: Sarah van Schagen Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? Lisa Shimizu thinks so. Over the past few months, Shimizu has been developing a version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow that would be easily understood by and engaging for children. After testing it out on captive audiences ranging from her 8-year-old daughter Aya to a cl ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, education, Seattle (all these topics) |
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Martin Who?
An Inconvenient Truth wins Oscars, Al Gore wins affection |
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26 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Martin Who? An Inconvenient Truth wins Oscars, Al Gore wins affection Rock star. Superhero. Visionary. That pre-Oscar hype paled next to last night's event, which saw Al Gore -- looking blissfully bloated in a Ralph Lauren tux -- take home an award for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. OK, technically the Goracle himself didn't win either of the statuettes for An Inconve ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news (all these topics) |
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It's Official: He Rocks
Gore announces continents-spanning concert series, Live Earth |
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16 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| It's Official: He Rocks Gore announces continents-spanning concert series, Live Earth Never let it be said that Al Gore is not dedicated to his cause: the man will do whatever it takes to raise awareness about climate change. If it means hobnobbing at Sundance, he'll do it. Starring in a film that gets nominated for an Oscar? Not afraid. Orchestrating an event that features seven concerts on seven continents on 7/7/07 ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, green living, news (all these topics) |
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You Wanna Peace of Him?
Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize |
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02 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| You Wanna Peace of Him? Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Three cheers for Al Gore, whose incessant blabbering about climate change has gotten him nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. "Al Gore with his movie and his dedication and his active diplomacy among world leaders has really moved the issue forward," says Boerge Brende, one of two Norwegian lawmakers who snuck Gore's nomination in just bef ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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The Incredible Bulk
Al Gore plans to launch grassroots carbon-freeze movement |
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12 Dec 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Incredible Bulk Al Gore plans to launch grassroots carbon-freeze movement When is a grassroots movement not a grassroots movement? When it's started by a kajillionaire movie-star politician, we'd say. But you can't blame Al Gore for trying. At a venture-capital conference last week, Gore returned to the "carbon freeze" idea he's been bandying about for a while, saying he would "launch an ongoing campaig ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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I Speak for the Freeze
Gore calls for carbon freeze in major speech on climate solutions |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Sep 2006 |
Muckraker |
| It is "time for a national oil change," said Al Gore with a sly wink in his voice. "That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick." "Freeze right there!" says Gore. Photo: David Lodge/WireImage This was one of the few moments of comedy in what was billed as a "major policy address" yesterday by the former veep. ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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The Writing on the Wal-Mart
Al Gore takes his green message to Wal-Mart headquarters |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 Jul 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Picture Al Gore standing in a modest auditorium deep in America's heartland before an exultant crowd of Wal-Mart employees, comparing their campaign to lighten the company's environmental footprint to the Allies' righteous struggle in World War II. This after Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, likened the giant retailer's greening efforts to the wo ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, business, climate, Muckraker, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Dinosaur Farts?
Alberta premier doesn't like Al Gore talkin' smack about oil sands |
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06 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Dinosaur Farts? Alberta premier doesn't like Al Gore talkin' smack about oil sands Al Gore has pushed the buttons of Ralph Klein, premier of Canada's conservative Alberta province (think North Dakota, but even norther). Interviewed in the latest Rolling Stone, Gore disparaged Alberta's oil-sands industry: "For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, Canada, climate, energy, news, oil, oil sands (all these topics) |
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Truth Be Told
Gore's new flick, An Inconvenient Truth, improbably succeeds |
David Roberts |
24 May 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| It's something of a miracle that An Inconvenient Truth, the chronicle of Al Gore's quest to raise alarm about "climate chaos," exists at all. A movie with a scantily clad Jessica Alba presenting a computer slideshow on climate science is implausible enough. Al Gore doing it, well ... even C-SPAN could be forgiven for having second thoughts. Albert Arnold Gore Jr. may be many things, ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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The Sway of the World
Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real |
Amanda Griscom Little |
19 May 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Al Gore wants you to understand climate change. Photo: © 2006 Paramount Classics. Think you've been hearing a lot about global warming lately? If a new climate-focused group hatched by Al Gore has its way, you ain't seen nothin' yet. After nine months of behind-the-scenes planning and wrangling, the Alliance for Climate Protection is now nearly ready for ... |
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| Topics: advertising, Al Gore, climate, grassroots activism, Muckraker (all these topics) |
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Wake Up and Smell the Carbon
Al Gore launches new climate campaign |
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10 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wake Up and Smell the Carbon Al Gore launches new climate campaign Launched with profits from Al Gore's new movie and book, a new group called Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend big bucks on advertising and grassroots organizing in an attempt to impart the dangers of climate chaos to the American public. Focusing particularly on conservatives and labor gro ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, news, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Al Revere
An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore |
David Roberts |
09 May 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Al Gore is on the campaign trail again, and he actually seems to be enjoying it. Like Brad Pitt, but wonkier. Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. For those who remember his ponderous, consultant-driven bid for president, the idea of Gore enjoying anything about campaigning may seem far-fetched. But this time, the campaign's not about him; it's about the issue that has been his consuming intellectual passion for nea ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, interview, politics (all these topics) |
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Lights, Camera, Traction
Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance |
Dan Bree |
02 Feb 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| At 25 years of age, Sundance is the country's premier festival of independent film. But a lot has changed over that quarter century. Well, actually, one thing has changed: m-o-n-e-y. There's a ton of Hollywood cash spent at Sundance, and I could see it everywhere I looked last week. The "VIP" corporate parties on Main Street. The piles of free stuff for celebrities. The Moviefon ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, cars, climate, electric vehicles, green living, movies, placemaking, renewable energy, Utah (all these topics) |
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Al's Well That Pens Well
Al Gore to publish new book on global warming |
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25 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Al's Well That Pens Well Al Gore to publish new book on global warming The self-proclaimed "former next president of the United States" -- currently at the Sundance Film Festival (and, may we point out, looking quite natty) to promote his new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth -- has announced that he'll soon be coming out with a new book on th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Esprit de Gore
Gore is transforming into fiery climate evangelist |
Amanda Griscom Little |
09 Jun 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Al Gore. Photo: The House Policy Committee. Al Gore, once derided by the right as a stiff, wooden Ozone Man, is now recasting himself as the fiery, headstrong Climate Avenger -- a blunt and passionate spokesperson about what he calls "a collision between our civilization and the earth." He is currently in negotiations to play a starring role in a big-budget, feature-length documentary ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Blood and Gore
Al Gore launches an investment firm focused on sustainability |
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09 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Blood and Gore Al Gore launches an investment firm focused on sustainability After the whole endorsing-Howard-Dean thing didn't work out, Al Gore is hoping his new venture is more successful: It's an investment firm called Generation Investment Management that will focus on socially and environmentally conscious companies. The firm's approach "is designed to serve people who want to integrate sustainable returns wit ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, business, United States (all these topics) |
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Al-Gore-Rhythm
Gore Blasts American Companies for Lagging on Green Tech |
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12 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Al-Gore-Rhythm Gore Blasts American Companies for Lagging on Green Tech American companies spend too much time fighting environmental regulations and too little time researching and developing the next generation of green technologies, said former vice president and 2000 popular-vote winner Al Gore in a speech to Stanford University business students yesterday. Gore cited a recent deal wherein Ford Motor Co. purchased hybrid-engine techno ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, business (all these topics) |
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Gore Text
Gore Calls Bush a 'Moral Coward' in Speech on Environment |
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16 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Gore Text Gore Calls Bush a "Moral Coward" in Speech on Environment The Bush administration is "wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility, and mining companies," said former Vice President Al Gore in a fiery address to a packed theater in New York City on Thursday. The speech -- fourth in a series co ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Al Gore, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, New York, political groups, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Al Gore Rhythm
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15 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Al Gore Rhythm Speaking at the Florida Democratic Party Convention -- widely regarded as the first stop on the 2004 campaign trail -- former Vice President Al Gore attacked the Bush administration on Saturday for favoring corporate America and trashing environmental protections. In his most outspoken speech since the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore decried the return to "the days of deficits ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, elections, Florida, political groups, politics (all these topics) |
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Second Class Citizen
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26 Feb 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Second Class Citizen Al Gore spent his second class as a professor at Columbia University's journalism school focusing on how the media cover global warming. Before the class, students were given materials suggesting that the vast majority of the world's climate scientists believe global warming is occurring, and they were asked questions like, "Is it your view that scientists who are the minority on this issue and who remain unconvinced about the seriousness of th ... |
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A Last Encounter With Al Gore?
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07 Nov 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore A Last Encounter With Al Gore? During a final 30-hour, five-state campaign tour, Al Gore appealed yesterday to enviros and other supporters of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader to join the "main" contest and vote for Gore over George W. Bush. Speaking on a syndicated radio show, Gore said, "I don't like the argument that a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, [but] I think it's true. That's why the Republicans are running TV ads for Nader." Some voters ... |
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Woo Is Me
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27 Oct 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Woo Is Me Speaking yesterday before a crowd of more than 30,000 in Madison, Wis., Al Gore stressed the importance of tackling global warming in one of the most spirited speeches he's given all year. "If the big oil companies and the chemical manufacturers and the other big polluters were able to communicate a message to this state, they would say, 'Vote for George Bush, or in any case, vote for Ralph Nader,'" Gore said, pledging to be a strong advocate for envi ... |
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Balancing the Book
A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment |
Chip Giller |
25 Oct 2000 |
Arts and Minds |
| Earth in the Balance By Al Gore Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 2000 How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager. The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, books, business, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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When Al's Said and Done ...
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23 Oct 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| When Al's Said and Done ... Al Gore made a hard pitch to enviros during an impassioned campaign speech in Portland, Ore., last night, pledging to protect old-growth trees, roadless forest areas, and salmon runs. "When it comes to the environment, I've never given up, I've never turned back, and I never will," Gore told a crowd of nearly 4,000, in an apparent bid to convince voters to support him rather than Green Party candidate ... |
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Al Talk and No Action
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10 Oct 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Al Gore Al Talk and No Action Although most environmental groups have endorsed Al Gore for president, they also complain that he has been too cautious as vice president. He has certainly talked big about the environment and has a great storehouse of policy ideas, but he has tended not to take big political risks that would require citizens to sacrifice for the environment and instead pinned his hopes on technical wizardry and clean-and-green inventions to save the day. John Pass ... |
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