Title: Al Gore increases awards haul
ALGOREismylife - October 24, 2007 09:28 PM (GMT)
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=13678
Al Gore increases awards haul
(published on 24-October-2007)
Man of the hour Al Gore has added to his awards tally after scooping another accolade at a ceremony lauding those who have had a tangible impact with their efforts to protect the environment.
Al Gore scooped the award for Green Personality of the Year 2007
The former Presidential Candidate was among the winners at the edie Awards for Environmental Excellence, held at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday.
The inaugural awards aimed to highlight the vital work being carried out by environmental consultancies in the UK and further afield in arenas such as curbing climate change, increasing recycling and improving water quality.
Mr Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, was voted by those working in the environment industry as the individual who they felt had made the biggest contribution to global efforts to protect the planet.
Presenting the award for Green Personality of the Year 2007, sponsored by the Enersol Corporation, Lord Lewis Mooney praised the impact of Mr Gore's work and his film An Inconvenient Truth.
He said: "It is widely observed that there is a groundswell of change in the US. Public opinion is changing fast and that is no mean feat."
Mr Gore was unable to attend the ceremony to pick up his award, as he was in Germany to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
However, Mark Ferguson, co-founder of Gore's green investment house, Generation Investment Management, was on hand to collect it.
Mr Ferguson said: "He is extremely honoured to receive this award. I spoke to him earlier today and he is very sorry he can't be here in person."
He added: "It is incredibly encouraging to see a body of people like ourselves all committed to the subject of the environment."
Mr Gore beat veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, the man who brought us London's congestion charge, Mayor Ken Livingstone, campaigning journalist George Monbiot, and former Environment Secretary David Miliband to be crowned the environmentalist's environmentalist.
Kate Martin
Al Gore increases awards haul
(published on 24-October-2007)
Man of the hour Al Gore has added to his awards tally after scooping another accolade at a ceremony lauding those who have had a tangible impact with their efforts to protect the environment.
Al Gore scooped the award for Green Personality of the Year 2007
The former Presidential Candidate was among the winners at the edie Awards for Environmental Excellence, held at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday.
The inaugural awards aimed to highlight the vital work being carried out by environmental consultancies in the UK and further afield in arenas such as curbing climate change, increasing recycling and improving water quality.
Mr Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, was voted by those working in the environment industry as the individual who they felt had made the biggest contribution to global efforts to protect the planet.
Presenting the award for Green Personality of the Year 2007, sponsored by the Enersol Corporation, Lord Lewis Mooney praised the impact of Mr Gore's work and his film An Inconvenient Truth.
He said: "It is widely observed that there is a groundswell of change in the US. Public opinion is changing fast and that is no mean feat."
Mr Gore was unable to attend the ceremony to pick up his award, as he was in Germany to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
However, Mark Ferguson, co-founder of Gore's green investment house, Generation Investment Management, was on hand to collect it.
Mr Ferguson said: "He is extremely honoured to receive this award. I spoke to him earlier today and he is very sorry he can't be here in person."
He added: "It is incredibly encouraging to see a body of people like ourselves all committed to the subject of the environment."
Mr Gore beat veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, the man who brought us London's congestion charge, Mayor Ken Livingstone, campaigning journalist George Monbiot, and former Environment Secretary David Miliband to be crowned the environmentalist's environmentalist.
Kate Martin
ReElectAlGore2008 - October 25, 2007 05:02 PM (GMT)
Henry Fonda, perhaps one of the 5 greatest actors of all time didn't recieve an Oscar til he was almost dead...
When he got it he said, would have been nice to have recieved this when it would have done me some good
All these awards Al Gore is winning are meaningless to the general population unless he runs for president
The space on his wall in his late father's mantel, as talked about in Time Magazine so eloquently a few months ago when Al was rewarded with the cover was for Presidential memorabillia, NOT an Oscar, Emmy, NObel Prize, etc...
doesn't do us any good until he is in office just strokes his ego and makes one feel important
Take the parable for what it is worth...
Awards without substance is just a materilaistic object (and how many people's rewards and objects just got destroyed in the fires in California???) all dust in the wind.
When he got it he said, would have been nice to have recieved this when it would have done me some good
All these awards Al Gore is winning are meaningless to the general population unless he runs for president
The space on his wall in his late father's mantel, as talked about in Time Magazine so eloquently a few months ago when Al was rewarded with the cover was for Presidential memorabillia, NOT an Oscar, Emmy, NObel Prize, etc...
doesn't do us any good until he is in office just strokes his ego and makes one feel important
Take the parable for what it is worth...
Awards without substance is just a materilaistic object (and how many people's rewards and objects just got destroyed in the fires in California???) all dust in the wind.
Texan for Gore - October 25, 2007 06:28 PM (GMT)
I generally agree with you, ReElect. However, I do believe all his awards represent what he has accomplished so far, which is a heck of a lot.
But just as I cannot imagine a winning team quitting the game at half time, I can't imagine Gore stopping right here. Sure, he can continue what's he doing to promote climate change. But he could do it so much more effectively as President.
Why settle for less?
But just as I cannot imagine a winning team quitting the game at half time, I can't imagine Gore stopping right here. Sure, he can continue what's he doing to promote climate change. But he could do it so much more effectively as President.
Why settle for less?