Title: Al Gore in Austin to talk abut climate change
Description: October 1.
Description: October 1.
ALGOREismylife - August 31, 2007 09:09 PM (GMT)
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/sha..._talk_abou.html
Al Gore in Austin to talk about climate change
Al Gore, the former vice president and probably the nation’s most visible environmentalist, will visit Austin on Oct. 1.
He’ll be giving a chat about An Inconvenient Truth at the Theatre at the Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas. Tickets go on sale Saturday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. at Texas Box Office Outlets. Laura Montez, an official at University of Texas, says prices for the event have not been set yet.
There are some serious Al Gore devotees in Austin. This year, I’ve written about some of them:
Wayne Hunt has seen Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” more than 50 times. “When I like something, I really, really like something,” Hunt said. The thing he likes second-most is “Braveheart,” which he reckons he has seen 15 times.
Gore’s 2006 movie, half a slide-show lecture about climate change, half a documentary showing Gore roaming the Earth like some lone prophet, has won a pair of Oscars and catapulted the issue onto the national political agenda.
Hunt, 57, saw it four times in the theater last summer, and when he heard about the Climate Change Project, a program in Nashville, Tenn., that trains people to present the slide show featured in the movie, he dashed off an application. In January, he took a few days off as the head of the University of Texas’ academic conference center and flew to Tennessee.
Hunt is among the dozen or so people in the Austin area, including Mayor Will Wynn, who essentially are Al Gore apostles. Along with nurses, school teachers, ministers and scientists from across the country, they paid their way to Tennessee and paid for their lodging, and in return are given an electronic version of the PowerPoint slide show - which is full of nifty maps, graphs, photos and tips for cutting down on greenhouse gases - and trained for free in how to spread Gore’s Truth. (The City of Austin paid for Wynn’s ticket to Nashville.)
Altogether, more than 30 Texans are among about 1,000 people from across the country who have received the training, according to Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for the program.
Months after the movie made its way to DVD, these truest of believers have presented the slide show in cafes, churches, basements, classrooms and Rotary clubs.
Scientists agree that people are contributing to climate change. But implicit in the mission of these presenters is that the American public as a whole, from the man in the Governor’s Mansion to the man on the street, remains uncertain about how much the climate is shifting, whether the shift is inherently bad and what the public can do to better the environment.
This year, before an audience of about 25 of what he called “the converted or near-converted,” (including his mother, up from Houston) Colin Rowan, then Texas spokesman for the nonprofit group Environmental Defense, offered the slide show in the tiny theater at the back of the Hideout cafe on Congress Avenue.
Admission was free: Presenters trained in Nashville pledge not to profit from show. As he cycled through the PowerPoint slides, dressed in a white button-down shirt and jeans, Rowan made sure to give a Texas bent to the presentation. “We are national champs, by far,” he said, describing how Texas tops the nation in emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change.
“He took the science out of the scientific data,” audience member Jeanne McConnell said. “He gave (climate change) a much more understandable feel.”
Then Rowan flashed to a map showing the Gulf of Mexico eating away at the Texas coast as sea levels rise. “My family has a house in Galveston, so that’s a bummer,” he said.
On Tuesday, at a lunchtime session in a Capitol lounge with members of a House environmental caucus, Rowan cycled through a presentation and charged his audience to plan for longer droughts as the climate changes.
“You guys need to think about what we’re going to do with water,” he told a dozen lawmakers and staffers as they tore into roast beef sandwiches and chips.
Admission to the Climate Project is tough: The organizers accepted 1,000 people (trained for several days apiece in groups of 200) out of 5,000 applications. Applicants had to explain their public speaking experience and describe the audience they would attract.
The most compelling part of the Nashville training is the 12 hours or so that Gore himself offers, say the Austin presenters.
Gore talks for so long that he goes hoarse.
“He said it’s a moral issue, not a political issue,” Hunt said. “He asked us not even to mention his name.
“He called us his cavalry,” Hunt said. “He really encouraged us to be normal, to be who we are, to bring our own talents to this and not try to be Al Gore.”
Hunt, a formally trained classical guitarist (and father of Phoebe Hunt, a member of the Austin musical group the Hudsons), has even composed a pair of songs about climate change that he will incorporate into the first of his presentations, May 4 at the conference center for retired UT faculty.
Austin bears a special responsibility to address climate change, said Wynn, who went through the training in January.
“We’re the capital of the most polluting state in the most polluting country in the world,” he said.
Wynn, who says he is one of a pair of public officials to receive the slide-show training, has given the presentation at least four times already, and city staff members from the police monitor to the fire chief to a municipal court judge have sat through it, he said.
He has lined up a dozen presentations over the next couple of months, from a breakfast meeting with the Downtown Austin Alliance to a session with his literary club to a meeting at the Jewish Community Association of Austin.
The stories told by the presenters suggest that when they saw “An Inconvenient Truth” something clicked.
Maura Nevel Thomas, who delivered the presentation at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in late March and offers it again today at the Crossings (a spa northwest of Austin), said she experienced an epiphany when she saw the movie last year.
“I could not live with myself if I did not do something,” said the 36-year old, who consults with businesses about how to make their staff work efficiently.
Nevel Thomas already had been a humdrum recycler, but the day after the movie, she bought a Toyota Prius and soon applied for the Climate Project training.
“I felt a profound sense of responsibility,” said the woman who refers to herself on her Web site as a ” climate change messenger.”
Arvella Oliver said the movie “felt like someone had turned the lights on.” (Compact fluorescent lights, presumably.)
A 40-year-old mother of two with a master’s degree in history, she thought: “This is what I’m supposed to be doing. All I do is laundry and groceries and run up and down the road.”
Oliver presented the slide show in mid-February to an agreeable audience at a Methodist Church in Georgetown, where she lives.
Last month, she gave a half-hour version at the Pflugerville Rotary Club and got into a debate with a man equipped with a file of counterevidence.
“I told him he had cherry-picked his facts,” Oliver said.
“I’m working up the nerve to rent a room in the library in Georgetown,” she said. “I’ll put fliers up and put an ad in the paper and give the presentation to whomever.”
Al Gore in Austin to talk about climate change
Al Gore, the former vice president and probably the nation’s most visible environmentalist, will visit Austin on Oct. 1.
He’ll be giving a chat about An Inconvenient Truth at the Theatre at the Frank Erwin Center at the University of Texas. Tickets go on sale Saturday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. at Texas Box Office Outlets. Laura Montez, an official at University of Texas, says prices for the event have not been set yet.
There are some serious Al Gore devotees in Austin. This year, I’ve written about some of them:
Wayne Hunt has seen Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” more than 50 times. “When I like something, I really, really like something,” Hunt said. The thing he likes second-most is “Braveheart,” which he reckons he has seen 15 times.
Gore’s 2006 movie, half a slide-show lecture about climate change, half a documentary showing Gore roaming the Earth like some lone prophet, has won a pair of Oscars and catapulted the issue onto the national political agenda.
Hunt, 57, saw it four times in the theater last summer, and when he heard about the Climate Change Project, a program in Nashville, Tenn., that trains people to present the slide show featured in the movie, he dashed off an application. In January, he took a few days off as the head of the University of Texas’ academic conference center and flew to Tennessee.
Hunt is among the dozen or so people in the Austin area, including Mayor Will Wynn, who essentially are Al Gore apostles. Along with nurses, school teachers, ministers and scientists from across the country, they paid their way to Tennessee and paid for their lodging, and in return are given an electronic version of the PowerPoint slide show - which is full of nifty maps, graphs, photos and tips for cutting down on greenhouse gases - and trained for free in how to spread Gore’s Truth. (The City of Austin paid for Wynn’s ticket to Nashville.)
Altogether, more than 30 Texans are among about 1,000 people from across the country who have received the training, according to Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for the program.
Months after the movie made its way to DVD, these truest of believers have presented the slide show in cafes, churches, basements, classrooms and Rotary clubs.
Scientists agree that people are contributing to climate change. But implicit in the mission of these presenters is that the American public as a whole, from the man in the Governor’s Mansion to the man on the street, remains uncertain about how much the climate is shifting, whether the shift is inherently bad and what the public can do to better the environment.
This year, before an audience of about 25 of what he called “the converted or near-converted,” (including his mother, up from Houston) Colin Rowan, then Texas spokesman for the nonprofit group Environmental Defense, offered the slide show in the tiny theater at the back of the Hideout cafe on Congress Avenue.
Admission was free: Presenters trained in Nashville pledge not to profit from show. As he cycled through the PowerPoint slides, dressed in a white button-down shirt and jeans, Rowan made sure to give a Texas bent to the presentation. “We are national champs, by far,” he said, describing how Texas tops the nation in emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change.
“He took the science out of the scientific data,” audience member Jeanne McConnell said. “He gave (climate change) a much more understandable feel.”
Then Rowan flashed to a map showing the Gulf of Mexico eating away at the Texas coast as sea levels rise. “My family has a house in Galveston, so that’s a bummer,” he said.
On Tuesday, at a lunchtime session in a Capitol lounge with members of a House environmental caucus, Rowan cycled through a presentation and charged his audience to plan for longer droughts as the climate changes.
“You guys need to think about what we’re going to do with water,” he told a dozen lawmakers and staffers as they tore into roast beef sandwiches and chips.
Admission to the Climate Project is tough: The organizers accepted 1,000 people (trained for several days apiece in groups of 200) out of 5,000 applications. Applicants had to explain their public speaking experience and describe the audience they would attract.
The most compelling part of the Nashville training is the 12 hours or so that Gore himself offers, say the Austin presenters.
Gore talks for so long that he goes hoarse.
“He said it’s a moral issue, not a political issue,” Hunt said. “He asked us not even to mention his name.
“He called us his cavalry,” Hunt said. “He really encouraged us to be normal, to be who we are, to bring our own talents to this and not try to be Al Gore.”
Hunt, a formally trained classical guitarist (and father of Phoebe Hunt, a member of the Austin musical group the Hudsons), has even composed a pair of songs about climate change that he will incorporate into the first of his presentations, May 4 at the conference center for retired UT faculty.
Austin bears a special responsibility to address climate change, said Wynn, who went through the training in January.
“We’re the capital of the most polluting state in the most polluting country in the world,” he said.
Wynn, who says he is one of a pair of public officials to receive the slide-show training, has given the presentation at least four times already, and city staff members from the police monitor to the fire chief to a municipal court judge have sat through it, he said.
He has lined up a dozen presentations over the next couple of months, from a breakfast meeting with the Downtown Austin Alliance to a session with his literary club to a meeting at the Jewish Community Association of Austin.
The stories told by the presenters suggest that when they saw “An Inconvenient Truth” something clicked.
Maura Nevel Thomas, who delivered the presentation at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in late March and offers it again today at the Crossings (a spa northwest of Austin), said she experienced an epiphany when she saw the movie last year.
“I could not live with myself if I did not do something,” said the 36-year old, who consults with businesses about how to make their staff work efficiently.
Nevel Thomas already had been a humdrum recycler, but the day after the movie, she bought a Toyota Prius and soon applied for the Climate Project training.
“I felt a profound sense of responsibility,” said the woman who refers to herself on her Web site as a ” climate change messenger.”
Arvella Oliver said the movie “felt like someone had turned the lights on.” (Compact fluorescent lights, presumably.)
A 40-year-old mother of two with a master’s degree in history, she thought: “This is what I’m supposed to be doing. All I do is laundry and groceries and run up and down the road.”
Oliver presented the slide show in mid-February to an agreeable audience at a Methodist Church in Georgetown, where she lives.
Last month, she gave a half-hour version at the Pflugerville Rotary Club and got into a debate with a man equipped with a file of counterevidence.
“I told him he had cherry-picked his facts,” Oliver said.
“I’m working up the nerve to rent a room in the library in Georgetown,” she said. “I’ll put fliers up and put an ad in the paper and give the presentation to whomever.”
gore for president - August 31, 2007 09:42 PM (GMT)
Al will be in Austin Texas on October 1 to talk about climate change.
So we all know there will be no announcement until after October 1?
Has anyone heard any hints from Al's office on his running?
Time is running out on a possibly run. Maybe Al does not want to
do battle with the Clinton's? Its his nomination if he wants to fight for it.
No existing candidate will give global warming the attention Al would
if he ran. Lets hope Al see's it that way and gets in the race.
gore for president
So we all know there will be no announcement until after October 1?
Has anyone heard any hints from Al's office on his running?
Time is running out on a possibly run. Maybe Al does not want to
do battle with the Clinton's? Its his nomination if he wants to fight for it.
No existing candidate will give global warming the attention Al would
if he ran. Lets hope Al see's it that way and gets in the race.
gore for president
Texan for Gore - August 31, 2007 09:52 PM (GMT)
OMG, I am soooo excited because that's in my neck of the wood - maybe a 80 mile trip or so. I am going to try my darndest to go. I wonder if it's a day event or evening. It'd make it a lot easier for me if it's evening - as I wouldn't have to take off much work. I can't really take off the first week of the month but I think my boss would understand. :D I could always rearrange my appts.
ALGOREismylife - August 31, 2007 10:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (gore for president @ Aug 31 2007, 03:42 PM) |
| Al will be in Austin Texas on October 1 to talk about climate change. So we all know there will be no announcement until after October 1? Has anyone heard any hints from Al's office on his running? Time is running out on a possibly run. Maybe Al does not want to do battle with the Clinton's? Its his nomination if he wants to fight for it. No existing candidate will give global warming the attention Al would if he ran. Lets hope Al see's it that way and gets in the race. gore for president |
I noticed AL'S schedule once again looks busy starting next month. He is scheduled to be in Victoria, Canada, September 29, 2007 and in Chicago, October 17, 2007.
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonis...73391b3&k=75037
Global warming guru Gore to visit Victoria
Times Colonist
Published: Friday, August 31, 2007
Al Gore, a former U.S. vice-president and star of the global-warming warning movie An Inconvenient Truth, will be in Victoria next month.
Deirdre Campbell, of Tartan Public Relations, confirmed Gore will speak at the Victoria Conference Centre, on Saturday, Sept. 29.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/foster/534613...tella30.article
Gore visit set
August 30, 2007
BY STELLA FOSTER Sun-Times Columnist
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT and avid environmentalist Al Gore is set to speak Oct. 17 at the Economic Club of Chicago in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency
gore for president - August 31, 2007 10:59 PM (GMT)
Al is going to be in Chicago on October 17. The state right next door is Iowa?
What is the deadline for getting on the New Hampshire and Iowa ballots for
2008? Those seem to be the dates we have to look at.
gore for president :good:
What is the deadline for getting on the New Hampshire and Iowa ballots for
2008? Those seem to be the dates we have to look at.
gore for president :good:
IanOC - September 3, 2007 02:01 AM (GMT)
An October 17th announcement, right there in Obama's home state, works for me. I hope it works for Al. Then he could fly over to Iowa and New Hampshire to start the real presidential campaign season.
Ian O'Corrain
www.gore-obama2008.blogspot.com
Ian O'Corrain
www.gore-obama2008.blogspot.com
IanOC - September 3, 2007 02:02 AM (GMT)
An October 17th announcement, right there in Obama's home state, works for me. I hope it works for Al. Then he could fly over to Iowa and New Hampshire to start the real presidential campaign season.
Ian O'Corrain
www.gore-obama2008.blogspot.com
Ian O'Corrain
www.gore-obama2008.blogspot.com
Texan for Gore - September 3, 2007 03:05 AM (GMT)
Has anybody heard yet what time he is scheduled to speak at the Frank Erwin
Center in Austin? I kinda hope it's later in the day!
Center in Austin? I kinda hope it's later in the day!
ALGOREismylife - September 9, 2007 04:49 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Texan for Gore @ Sep 2 2007, 09:05 PM) |
| Has anybody heard yet what time he is scheduled to speak at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin? I kinda hope it's later in the day! |
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlin...=191601&SecID=2
www.news8austin.com
Tickets to Gore presentation go on sale
Updated: 9/8/2007 2:36:51 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
Former Vice President Al Gore will be in Austin to give his award-winning presentation, "An Inconvenient Truth," in October. Saturday was the first day tickets for the event were available.
The discussion is about environmental issues and their impact on the world.
Gore will be in town on Oct. 1 at the theatre at the Frank Erwin Center. The presentation starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available at all Texas Box Office Outlets, including select Central Market and HEB stores.
There are even a limited number of VIP tickets available. The $250 price tag includes a seat within the first two rows. The tickets also get you an invite to a pre-show reception with Gore, and a reserved parking space.
Texan for Gore - September 9, 2007 11:29 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ALGOREismylife @ Sep 9 2007, 10:49 AM) | ||
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlin...=191601&SecID=2 www.news8austin.com Tickets to Gore presentation go on sale Updated: 9/8/2007 2:36:51 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff Former Vice President Al Gore will be in Austin to give his award-winning presentation, "An Inconvenient Truth," in October. Saturday was the first day tickets for the event were available. The discussion is about environmental issues and their impact on the world. Gore will be in town on Oct. 1 at the theatre at the Frank Erwin Center. The presentation starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at all Texas Box Office Outlets, including select Central Market and HEB stores. There are even a limited number of VIP tickets available. The $250 price tag includes a seat within the first two rows. The tickets also get you an invite to a pre-show reception with Gore, and a reserved parking space. |
Thanks for the info. AGIML. I had found out the timeline a few days ago on algore.org and I bought a VIP ticket yesterday as soon as they went on sale!!! I am soooo excited!!! The VIP ticket includes being able to meet Gore at a pre-opening reception!! I probably shouldn't have spent the money, but I figured that was a once in a lifetime thing for me. I couldn't pass it up!! I'll let ya'll know how it goes. Maybe I can drop a few "Are you running" hints to him, if I am not completely tongue-tied. :clap:
TNblue - September 10, 2007 03:57 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Texan for Gore @ Sep 9 2007, 05:29 PM) |
I had found out the timeline a few days ago on algore.org and I bought a VIP ticket yesterday as soon as they went on sale!!! I am soooo excited!!! The VIP ticket includes being able to meet Gore at a pre-opening reception!! I probably shouldn't have spent the money, but I figured that was a once in a lifetime thing for me. I couldn't pass it up!! I'll let ya'll know how it goes. Maybe I can drop a few "Are you running" hints to him, if I am not completely tongue-tied. :clap: |
Aw hell Texan for Gore, it's time to drop on your knees and BEG!!! :bow: :bow: :bow:
We're with you. :good:
Texan for Gore - September 10, 2007 01:39 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (TNblue @ Sep 9 2007, 09:57 PM) | ||
Aw hell Texan for Gore, it's time to drop on your knees and BEG!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: We're with you. :good: |
You're right, TN. NOW is not the time to be subtle! It's time to get down and dirty and whimper, lol. I can do begging!! ;)
Thanks!
ALGOREismylife - October 1, 2007 10:15 PM (GMT)
http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=76108
Gore Speech in Austin Draws Crowd, Protests
10/1/2007
Ian Crawford
"An Inconvenient Truth" comes live to Austin, drawing a large crowd to hear former Vice President Al Gore speak tonight.
Many, like Tots Carlton think tonight's speech will be much like Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary.
"I kind of figure I can listen to this and then go see it [the documentary], too," Carlton says outside the Frank Erwin Center Box Office this afternoon.
But others, like Michael Osborne, think it will put the global warming debate into a perspective more people can accept.
"There's some people who treat it like a religion, and it's not," Osborne says after buying his tickets for tonight's speech. "If you look at the science, it's really a powerful argument."
The speech won't be without protestors, ranging from College Republicans upset with Gore's reported 14-hundred dollar a month power bill, to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who say Gore can do more to stop global warming by going vegetarian. The speech won't be without controversy, either. Some people, like Carlton, balked a little at the $30 to $100 price tag for seats at tonight's speech.
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Gore Speech in Austin Draws Crowd, Protests
10/1/2007
Ian Crawford
"An Inconvenient Truth" comes live to Austin, drawing a large crowd to hear former Vice President Al Gore speak tonight.
Many, like Tots Carlton think tonight's speech will be much like Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary.
"I kind of figure I can listen to this and then go see it [the documentary], too," Carlton says outside the Frank Erwin Center Box Office this afternoon.
But others, like Michael Osborne, think it will put the global warming debate into a perspective more people can accept.
"There's some people who treat it like a religion, and it's not," Osborne says after buying his tickets for tonight's speech. "If you look at the science, it's really a powerful argument."
The speech won't be without protestors, ranging from College Republicans upset with Gore's reported 14-hundred dollar a month power bill, to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who say Gore can do more to stop global warming by going vegetarian. The speech won't be without controversy, either. Some people, like Carlton, balked a little at the $30 to $100 price tag for seats at tonight's speech.
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ALGOREismylife - October 1, 2007 10:16 PM (GMT)
PROTESTS??????? Almost forgot, this is in TEXAS. College republicans???? :bad:
gore for president - October 2, 2007 04:51 PM (GMT)
Al Gore Brings Film To Campus
Article on Al's two hour presentation last night in Austin, Texas.
gore for president :good:
Article on Al's two hour presentation last night in Austin, Texas.
gore for president :good: