Video: A Generational Challenge to Repower America by Al Gore

Al Gore proposes a bold new strategy to repower America:

Today 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.

This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all Americans – in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen.

Watch the edited speech below. The full speech and text is available at wecansolveit.org.

TED Talks: Al Gore’s new thinking on the climate crisis

Check out Al Gore’s new slideshow on climate change, presented at TED. He gives us new evidence on the climate change problem, and argues persuasively and emotionally about the need for a worldwide global mobilisation to “solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future”.

 

Source: TED.

WorldChanging – Al Gore, the Nobel Prize and the End of the Beginning

We came across an excellent article written by Alex Steffen of WorldChanging – Al Gore, the Nobel Prize and the End of the Beginning. He says:

Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize symbolizes more than just a head-nod towards some eco-fad — it shows that sustainability has finally moved from the outskirts of activism to the most central halls of authority.

And:

Now we move from spreading the word to setting the agenda, from handing out pamphlets to drawing blueprints. The future we’re inheriting is broken. People all over the world know it. Now it’s time to design a future that works.

We agree with him, it’s time now to move from spreading awareness  to building our green future. Less individual small steps and feel-good actions. More collaboration with big plans, and concrete actions with monitoring of results.

Source: WorldChanging. Image attribution: Johannesen.