Al Gore

President Obama's Cabinet

Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Al Gore, Barack Obama Vice President, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

Many people are talking about what VP choices await Barack Obama, but let's look one step further to Obama's Cabinet and whom he would put in charge of different areas of our country.

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Taking Al Gore's Challenge: A 10-Point Plan to Repower America

Debbie Cook | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Carbon Emissions, Peak Oil, Al Gore, Green News
Debbie Cook

If we fail to adapt intelligently to the post-CO2 era, the next few decades will see even higher energy costs -- leaving us with a ruined environment and a shattered economy, unable to face a future without fossil fuels.

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Obama's Politics of Change: Afghanistan & Gore's Transformative Vision

Chuck Spinney | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Bush Afghanistan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Progressive Cabinet, Backbone Campaign, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Chuck Spinney

Almost 7 years after 9/11, bin Laden remains at large, the Taliban are growing stronger, and Afghanistan is sinking into a deepening quagmire that's spilling over into nuclear-armed Pakistan.

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McCain's New Attack Ad Won't Stop Pain at the Pump

Michael Brune | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Tesla, Al Gore, Gas Prices, Hybrids, John McCain, Electric Cars, Coming Clean, Oil, Oil Prices, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green News
Michael Brune

Rather than scour the world for oil that is increasingly expensive and difficult to get, we can jumpstart automakers to build a fleet of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles that get in excess of 100 mpg.

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The AP Has A Ron Fournier Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Meet the Press, Media Matters for America, The Daily Howler, Pat Tillman, Associated Press, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Fournier, Karl Rove, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The revelation that as an AP reporter Fournier privately urged Karl Rove to "keep up the fight," came as no surprise to anyone who has read his recent campaign work.

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Al Gore, T. Boone Pickens: Rival Party Role Models

Dallas Morning News | Dave Michaels | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Gas Prices, T. Boone Pickens, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Wind Energy, Al Gore, Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Green News

T. Boone Pickens has a new role model: Al Gore. Mr. Pickens, a longtime Republican partisan, and Al Gore, the former Democratic vice president, don't...

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Culture Zohn: Spaceship Earth: It's not too late for course correction

Patricia Zohn | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Moma, Kieran Timberlake, Whitney, John Lautner, Buckminster Fuller, Hammer, Al Gore, Environment, Living News
Patricia Zohn

How are we going to live in the rest of the 21st century and beyond? It's a big question, one that is becoming ever more urgent as resources dimi...

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Why Did Tom Friedman Misrepresent Al Gore's Challenge?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Tom Friedman, Solar, Dirty, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Green, Energy, Coal, Thomas Friedman, New York Times, Al Gore Speech, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tom Friedman distorted Al Gore's new energy challenge, which called for an energy policy based on 100 percent renewable sources, by including the role of coal. Isn't coal a nonrenewable fossil fuel?

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Cartoon Complexity

Jeffrey Kluger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Simplexity, Rudy Giuliani, Time Magazine, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Media News
Jeffrey Kluger

There are few fields in which the increasingly sophisticated science of simplexity -- the study of the way simple things can be improbably complex, and complex things can be brilliantly simple -- applies more powerfully than in politics.

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Gore Proves Global Warming by Sweating Profusely, and Nine Other Things I Learned at the Netroots Nation/KKK Gathering

Katie Halper | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yearly Kos, Blogosphere, Al Gore, John McCain, John McCain Internets, Markos Moulitsas, Bloggers, Msm, Fisa, Netroots, Bill O'Reilly Netroots, Barack Obama, Youtube Politics, Al Gore Sweating, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Austin Texas, Bill O'Reilly Netroots Nazis, nn08, Netroots Nation, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama FISA, 236.Com, Politics News
Katie Halper

Contrary to popular belief, bloggers do have a sense of humor. The Netroots Nation gift bags included condoms.

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"Global Warming Swindle" Movie Not Quite Offensive Enough For Regulators

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Misleading Film, Lies, Al Gore, The Great Global Warming Swindle, Andy Revkin, Climate Change, Wag TV, An Inconvenient Truth, Ofcom, Film, Global Warming, Green News

When "The Great Global Warming Swindle" aired on British television last year, it was billed by its producers, Wag TV, as "the definitive response to ...

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Sunday Watch 7-20-08

Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Renewable Energy, Meet the Press, Gas Tax Holiday, Al Gore, Tom Brokaw, High Oil Prices, Sunday Watch, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Media News
Todd Gitlin

Imagine! Almost an entire installment of Meet the Press devoted to an interview with a private citizen who is not running for office -- who receives the attention because he...knows something.

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O'Reilly: Gore Going To Netroots Nation Like Going To "Klan Gathering"

Think Progress | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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On Saturday, former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, TX. In his speech, Gore praised the...

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Nancy Pelosi: "I'm Not Taking Up Any Climate Change Until We Have A Democratic President"

Grist | Kate Sheppard and David Roberts | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Al Gore's Challenge, Ask the Speaker, Al Gore Dar Speech, Nancy Pelosi, Netroots, Al Gore's Climate Challenge, Al Gore Speech, Green News

grist.org For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), any action on climate change hinges on Barack Obama winning the White House this fall. Only the ...

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Netroots All-Stars Need YOU: 4 Steps to A Progressive Majority

Christine Pelosi | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Candidates, Dnc, Actblue, Al Gore, Campaign Boot Camp, 2008, Dailykos, Netroots Nation, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

Our Netroots All-Stars have important work in the countdown to Election Day. Americans are hungry for change and eager to be part of something larger than themselves.

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When a Trillion Dollars Looks Like a Bargain

Carl Pope | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Climate Change, Al Gore, Global Warming, Gore, Lightbulbs, Green News
Carl Pope

The real challenge isn't that we can't afford a carbon-free economy -- because it's not that big a bill. The awesomely difficult -- perhaps impossible -- challenge will be getting it done in a decade.

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The Answer to Gore's Challenge: Action!

Betsy Taylor | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Climate Change, Al Gore, Al Gore Climate Change, Climate, Global Warming, 1sky, Green News
Betsy Taylor

Gore is trying to create what he calls "political space" for Obama and McCain to do what is scientifically necessary on climate. The only way he'll pull it off is if we help.

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Fighting Smears Begins at Home, Mr. Gore

Nancy Scola | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Al Gore, Netroots Nation, Al Gore Global Warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore Internet, Media News
Nancy Scola

Al Gore, who's not a candidate for anything this season, needs to be willing to get up on stage and say, "You know what? Damn right. The Internet? All me."

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Al Gore Inches Toward Solartopia

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Al Gore, Florida, T. Boone Pickens, Inconvenient Truth, No Nukes, Carbon Free, Florida Everglades, Turkey Point Nuclear Plants, Corporate Pollution, Solartopia, Charlie Crist, Green Power, Climate Change, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Solar Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

I am told that Gore opposes atomic energy. But if so, his public silence -- and lack of action -- is deafening. If he really wants to have a lasting impact, he must join us in publicly opposing nuclear power.

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Obama Should Implore Bill to Campaign for Him

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Kerry, Independents, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Presidential Race, Heartland States, Bill Clinton, Southern States, Military Preparedness, Al Gore, War on Terrorism, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Though Obama has kept his distance from Bill, he hasn't distanced himself from his winning strategy.

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An Apollo Program for Alternative Energy Is Not the Answer

Richard Stuebi | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Energy Policy, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Green News
Richard Stuebi

I have long believed that a project like Apollo/Manhattan for alternative energy simply wouldn't work.

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Al Gore Asks Bloggers For Help

New York Times | Katharine Q. Seelye | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Al Gore Calls on Bloggers, Al Gore Global Warming, Gore Bloggers, Al Gore Climate Change, Al Gore Bloggers, Climate Change, Al Gore, Global Warming, Al Gore Netroots, Home News

AUSTIN, Tex. -- Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, was asked a question here at a bloggers conference about energy. Ms. Pelosi glanced at her Bl...

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My Challenge to America: Don't Ignore Gore's Speech

Andy Posner | Posted 07.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Al Gore, Environment, Apollo, Solar Power, Green News
Andy Posner

When has money ever been an issue when America has set its mind to achieving something? How many people wondered if World War ll and the Apollo Program were cost-effective?

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WATCH>> Pelosi, Gore Like Weekend Voting Idea

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Election Reform, Weekend Voting, Netroots Nation, Lloyd Doggett, Why Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, nn08, Home News
Jacob Soboroff

At Netroots Nation, Gore and Pelosi speak out on the Weekend Voting Act.

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Al Gore On Crackpot Hair-Of-The-Dog Solutions

The Uptake | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Netroots Nation, Oil, 2008 Election, Climate Change, Al Gore, nn08, Global Warming, The Uptake, Offthebus, Offshore Drilling, Home News
The Uptake

"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."

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