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...Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize - and an Oscar. Hardly a day goes by without major corporations like Wal-Mart announcing new green initiatives. Priuses are still hot, oil is near $100 a barrel and even Detroit is hyping fuel efficiency. With all that attention, global warming is surely set to become one of the biggest issues of the 2008 Presidential campaign, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Money Where the Green Is | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...factor,” Holdren said. One exhibit focused on rising sea levels, showing that the state of Massachusetts would become partially submerged over time, “a rather sobering prospect,” Holdren said. “[The speech] made me want to vote for Al Gore,” said William R. Rose ’11. “At least for now, it convinced me that this is a more important issue than I’ve been giving it credit for.” Many scientists say that burning fossil fuels for energy...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advisor Urges Climate Change Fight | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...only thing trendier in Hollywood than three-week stints in rehab and adopting children from developing nations is advocating for the environment. Celebrities ranging from recent Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 to Leonardo DiCaprio have jumped on the bandwagon, all promoting their own spin on the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the elevated publicity these famous faces bring to this serious issue is beneficial, a great majority of these stars do not live by the standards they promote. Hypocrisy is rampant in today’s environmental movement, and Hollywood...

Author: By Peter W. Tilton | Title: Gore and “Green” Goonies | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...leading spokesperson of today’s enviro-chic celebrities is Al Gore, whose face is everywhere from his award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth to Norway where he recently received the Nobel Peace Prize. Many Americans would naturally assume Gore follows the green lifestyle he widely promotes, and they would be wrong. Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, reside in a behemoth 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that used nearly 23,000 kilowatt-hours last August, more than twice the annual—yes, annual—energy usage of a typical American home...

Author: By Peter W. Tilton | Title: Gore and “Green” Goonies | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...Despite the fact that he was the party's vice presidential nominee in 2004, in a race against Clinton and Obama, two lavishly funded celebrity candidates, Edwards remains an underdog. "What Edwards has got to do is really thread the needle," says Mike Feldman, a former Gore adviser, who isn't affiliated with any of the campaigns. "It's possible [for him to win]. But what you see in his urgency in making his case is that time is running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has John Edwards' Moment Arrived? | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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