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  • A package of good stories

    Rolling Stone has a package of stories on Al Gore’s climate crusade in the current issue. First up is a long interview with the man himself , including this nice tidbit: What figure in the administration, other than the president himself, do you hold most responsible for standing in the way of meaningful change on […]

  • TNR gives good Gore

    After reading so many awful stories about Al Gore, it’s nice to finally come upon a good one. The reliably excellent Ryan Lizza gets it right in The New Republic. It’s also worth reading the transcript of his interview with Gore, which contains much tasty goodness, including this compact, dead-on description of modern presidential campaigns: […]

  • Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts

    Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts:

    OK, so they're not rock stars. But scientists with the British Antarctic Survey will guarantee Al Gore's promise that the Live Earth concerts on July 7 will be performed on all 7 continents.

    They'll be performing during the dead of winter at the Rothera Research Station. In fact, it'll be the first time anyone outside the station has heard the indie rock-folk band, Nunatak, play at all. (Nunatak, by the way, is a Greenlandic word that means an exposed summit of a ridge mountain or peak within an ice field or glacier.)

  • Gore wins!

    Spain’s Prince of Asturias award for international cooperation, that is. Can the Nobel be far behind?

  • My god

    How many times will this exact … same … story get written?

  • Al Gore and politics

    Al Gore: When the inevitable question came — his intentions about 2008 — he said politics “rewards a tolerance for artifice, repetition, triviality that I don’t have in as great supply as I might have had when I was younger.” … “I think there are a lot of things about politics as it has evolved […]

  • Another good one

    Al Gore was on Keith Olbermann’s show today. He took a while to get rolling, but it heats up toward the end of the first segment. Here’s part one: Here’s part two: (thanks LL!)

  • An hour-long discussion

    Here’s Al Gore appearing on Charlie Rose. It’s about an hour long:

  • More Gore

    Here’s Al Gore on David Letterman, Thursday night. Bizarrely substantive! Part one: Part two: