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Al Gore
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Vice President Al Gore, a leading expert in climate change, combines research from top scientists around the world with photos, personal anecdotes, and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. Follow Vice President Gore around the globe as he tells a story of change in the making and offers real actionable steps that you can take to help reverse the damage. --Adapted from Amazon.com summary.
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Publisher
Rodale Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking the planet and move through it, listeners first have to recognize that they are facing a crisis. So why is it that...
Author
Publisher
Melcher Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently....
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
8) Serving the American public: best practices in performance measurement : Benchmarking Study Report
Author
Publisher
National Performance Review
Pub. Date
[1997]
11) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
12) Power trip
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Why does Energy freedom for everyone still seem so far away? Because there are some very powerful people preventing us from attaining it. In Power Trip, filmmaker Jonathan Scott travels the United States confronting those at the root of the issue and meets the everyday citizens fighting against a deeply entrenched, powerful system that is waging war against the solar industry, and against the rights of the people who want to choose how they power...
