Most of you reading this are old enough to remember Al Gore, best known as Vice President to President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) and for his own presidential run in 2000 that ended with a historic Supreme Court decision, despite the fact that Gore had nearly a half-million more popular votes than George W. Bush.  Notably, though Gore did not agree with the Court’s decision, he put country ahead of politics and in his concession speech stated that, “for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.”  Quite a difference from … well, you know who.

Gore first became an environmentalist in 1976 and since then has worked to try to keep the public informed about environmental issues such as climate change.  Even today, his mission continues. Last night, as I was trying to reduce the number of emails in my inbox to something below 400, I came across a post from my friend PeNdantry on his Wibble blog that caught my eye.  It is a video of Al Gore giving a TED talk on August 7^th.  When I saw that the video is 25 minutes long, given that it was already after 1:00 a.m., I thought I would watch only the first few minutes, but it was such a good talk that I was almost immediately captivated and before I knew it, I had watched the entire video!  Gore has aged, but has not slowed down and his passion was contagious! 

I really hope you’ll take the time to watch the video to the end, but if you don’t have 25 minutes, please watch at least the first 8 minutes … I promise you won’t regret it!