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Nobel Prize Winner, Author, Activist and Icon
I'd like to introduce my superhero...Environmental Activist, Nobel Prize Winner, Academy Award Winner, Author of An Inconvenient Truth the book and focus of An Inconvenient Truth the documentary, President Al Gore (Almost), Former Vice President, Early Advocate for the Information Superhighway (Internet) and Husband Father and Grandfather, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., better known simply as Al Gore.
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. on Wikipedia
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is currently an author, businessperson, and American environmental activist who starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award in 2007. Gore also wrote the book Category: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - , which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009.
He was involved in American politics for 24 years, serving first in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977?85) and later in the U.S. Senate (1985?93) (representing Tennessee) before becoming vice presiden...
Reasons Why Al Gore is a Superhero
- Al Gore - Environmental Activist
- Al Gore's Challenge to the Nation - July 17, 2008
- Al Gore - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Al Gore - Academy Award (Oscar) Winner
- Al Gore - Author
- Al Gore - President (Almost)
- Al Gore - Vice President
- Al Gore - Early Advocate for the Information Superhighway (Internet)
- Al Gore - Husband, Father & Grandfather
Al Gore - Official Website
AL GORE
- AlGore.com
- Former Vice President Al Gore is cofounder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing.
Gore is also cofounder and Chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Al Gore's Official Projects
- Alliance for Climate Protection
- The Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise based on scientific facts. Through a new combination of non-partisan alliances with Americans from all walks of life and innovative and far-reaching communication techniques the Alliance will focus on presenting the facts about climate change and its solutions to the general public in an accurate, clear and compelling manner.
- The Climate Project
- The Climate Project consists of 1,000 dedicated volunteers from throughout the United States, trained to educate the public about climate change. Our hope is that by raising the awareness of our fellow citizens about this crisis and informing them about potential solutions, all of us, together, can preserve the climate balance on which our planet depends.
- Live Earth
- 2007 Benefit concert for Global Warming. Live Earth was a monumental music event that brought together a global audience on July 7, 2007 to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth staged concerts in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg - as well as special broadcast events in Antarctica, Kyoto and Washington, DC - and featured feature more than 150 of the world's best music acts - a mix of both legendary music acts like The Police, Genesis, Bon Jovi and Madonna with the latest headliners like Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas and Jack Johnson.
- An Inconvenient Truth
- An Inconvenient Truth is a feature film documentary on the Earth's climate crisis. The film features Al Gore and is directed by Davis Guggenheim. A Paramount Classics Release.
- Current TV
- Emmy Award winning Current is the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network and Internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience. Current connects young adults with what is going on in their world, from their perspective, in their own voices.
Al Gore - Environmental Activist
His first book, Earth in the Balance, explains the world's ecological predicament and then went on to describe a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems.
Earth in the Balance became the basis for An Inconvenient Truth, the best-selling book and the Academy Award Winning Documentary that have woken the world up to the issues surrounding global warming.
Al Gore has also founded The Alliance for Climate Protection which launched the We Can Solve It Campaign. These are nonprofit, nonpartisan efforts whose ultimate aim is to halt global warming.
Al Gore's Challenge to the Nation - July 17, 2008
On July 17, 2008 at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., Former Vice President Al Gore called for a "man on the moon" approach to the solving the problem of global warming. He challenged the nation to take bold steps towards solving the climate crisis.In this historic speech he encouraged the United States switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years.
This goal would not only help solve global warming but also the economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels.
According to Gore "The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis."
I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
Al Gore
July 17, 2008
Al Gore - Challenge to the Nation on YouTube
More on Al Gore's Challenge to the Nation
- Al Gore's Challenge | We Can Solve It
- What People Are Saying about Al Gore's Challenge to the Nation Speech.
- Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America | We Can Solve It
- Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America the full speech and link to the full video clip.
- Q&A: 100% carbon-free electricity in 10 years | We Can Solve It
- Question and Answer section on the 100% carbon-free electricity from We Can Solve the Climate Crisis.
- The Associated Press: Gore: Carbon-free electricity in 10 years doable
- Coverage of Al Gore's Challenge to the Nation Speech by the Associated Press.
- Gore Urges Change to Dodge an Energy Crisis
- A look at Al Gore's Challenge from the New York Times.
- The Associated Press: Gore sets energy goal for next president to heed
- Al Gore's Challenge for the Next President from the Associated Press.
- Al Gore lays down green challenge to America
- Al Gore lays down green challenge to America from the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Gore: No Fossil Fuel Plants Left in America in 2018
- The United States could generate all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2018, Al Gore said today, in a widely publicized speech in Washington in Wired Science from Wired.com.
- Al Gore's call for renewable electricity bridges the partisan divide
- Al Gore's call for carbon-free electricity changed the terms of the global warming debate by focusing on investment from Dayo Olopade from the Guardian.
The carbon dioxide and other pollutants we have already let out
of the bag ensure that no matter what we do, the problem will get worse before it gets better.
Al Gore, 1988
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We Can Solve It
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The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in t...
Al Gore - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
The award was given "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Gore and Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2007.
Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Links to Al Gores Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be...
- Al Gore - Nobel Lecture
- Full Text of Al Gore's The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Delivered on December 10, 2007 in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel Peace Laureate Lecture on Amazon
Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007
Amazon Price: $3.46 (as of 12/09/2009)
The full text of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture delivered on December 10, 2007 in Oslo, Norway.
Is Al Gore your superhero too?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes. He's a hero.
paperfacets says:
I hardily believe our world would be different if Al Gore had become President.
The election in 2000 was very sad. I compare Al Gore to John Adams in integrity
and openness. Al is a little more stoic. At times John Adams had trouble containing his passions. John Adams would have been very jealous of Al's hand's on roll of VP.
Posted October 07, 2008
Tiddledeewinks says:
He's doing a great job for Mother Earth and if he would have run for president, I would have voted for him. Go Al!
Posted August 22, 2008
No. I've got someone else in mind.
futurmajic says:
No, Al is a lost soul. God bless him! But lost or not he has helped to awaken people. There is no global warming as he describes it. But it has been warming since the last ice age. That is unless it has begun cooling. No one knows, there are big cycles and there are bigger cycles at all times.
Posted July 03, 2008
futurmajic says:
I would like to add something, lost or not he has helped to awaken people. However global climatic cycles are natural and existed before man. It has been warming since the last ice age, that is unless it has already begun to cool. No one knows, there are big cycles and there are smaller cycles at all times.
Posted July 03, 2008
Al Gore - Academy Award (Oscar) Winner
Al Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, the best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming.He is also the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history.
In 2007, An Inconvenient Truth was awarded two Academy Awards:
- Best Documentary Feature
Best Original Song - I Need To Wake Up by Melissa Ethridge
An Inconvenient Truth the Book on Amazon
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 12/09/2009)
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is an inspirational wake up call for the planet.
He takes a look at the climate crisis that has become a true planetary emergency.
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore's Wake Up Message
You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs.In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It's quiet; it's peaceful.
And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this."
...Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?"
We have to hear that question from them, now.
Al Gore, From An Inconvenient Truth
By far the most terrifying film
you will ever see.
Different Versions of An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth the Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 12/08/2009)
An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now.
Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating.
The Academy Award Winning Documentary leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.
The Latest News about Al Gore
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Gore's Earth in the Balance book became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
The Assault on Reason in the Amazon Spotlight
The Assault on Reason
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/09/2009)
The Assault on Reason takes an unprecedented look at how faith in the power of reason--the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate--is now under assault.
Gore offers a way to understand what we can to to restore the rule of reason. He has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.
More Books by Al Gore on Amazon
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Amazon Price: (as of 12/09/2009)
Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less
Amazon Price: $19.00 (as of 12/09/2009)
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 12/09/2009)
Al Gore - President (Almost)
Gore ran for President in the 1988 United States presidential election, but eventually dropped out of the race which went to Michael Dukakis.
He served as Vice President under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
Gore ran again for President in the 2000 with Senator Joe Lieberman as his vice-presidential running mate.
Gore won the popular vote with 50,999,897 votes to George W. Bush's 50,456,002, however due the electoral college Bush won the 2000 Presidential election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266.
The 2000 Presidential election became the fourth time in American history that a candidate won the presidency without receiving at least a plurality of the popular vote.
President Al Gore on Saturday Night Live
Al Gore on Saturday Night Live - State of the Union Speech
- Saturday Night Live - Al Gore as President
- Saturday Night Live - NBC Official Site watch President Al Gore's State of the Union address.
Al Gore - Vice President
Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were re-elected to a second term in the 1996 election.
He served as Vice President from Vice Presidency 1993 to 2001.
Al Gore - Vice President
Al Gore - Early Advocate for the Information Superhighway (Internet)
Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn wrote in the 2000 article that Gore was "the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development."
His High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (often referred to as the Gore Bill) was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure.
In 2005, Gore was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award "for three decades of contributions to the Internet" at the Webby Awards.
Information SuperHighway = Internet
Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote
and support its development.
Articles on Al Gore and the Internet
- Al Gore and the Internet
- An article on Al Gore and the Internet by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf.
- Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet
- An article on Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet by Richard Wiggins.
- snopes.com: Al Gore Invented the Internet
- A look at the question, "Did Al Gore claim that he 'invented' the Internet?"
- Salon.com Technology | Did Gore invent the Internet?
- A look at Al Gore and the Internet from Salon.com Technology writer Scott Rosenberg.
Al Gore - Husband, Father & Grandfather
- Husband to Tipper
Father to four children - Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III
Grandfather to three grandchildren - Wyatt Gore Schiff, Anna Hunger Schiff, and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff
The Gore Family 1997
The Latest News from Al Gore's Official Blog
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Al Gore - Vice President. Al Gore. Government Photo, in Public Domain.
Information Superhighway = Internet - Matt Britt. Internet map. Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
The Gore Family 1997 - Biography of Tipper Gore. Al Gore Family. Government Website, in public domain.
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- paperfacets paperfacets Oct 7, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
- Current Tv sounds like Sqiudoo. How does someone get it in their area or town? Very good info and presentation. 5*
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Sep 26, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
- Yes, he is. Thanks for doing this beleaguered hero!
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- eccles1 eccles1 Sep 25, 2008 @ 12:46 am
- The fact he talks about our planets health makes him a hero his movie surprised me it shows a good man that cares about this planet because of his son what a great motivation!
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- beachbum_gabby beachbum_gabby Sep 23, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
- He's a superhero. He's one of the people promoting Global Warming. I like the An Inconvenient Truth btw.
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- Tiddledeewinks Tiddledeewinks Aug 22, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
- Great family man. That's the kind that should be in the white house! And Tipper is doing her part by cleaning up or at least helping parents know about the awful song lyrics out there!
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