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- A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc
- Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
- The Alliance for Climate Protection
- Accomplishments as Vice President
- National Performance Review
- Their overall aim was to fund the development of, "robotics, smart roads, biotechnology, machine tools, magnetic-levitation trains, fiber-optic communications and national computer networks
- North American Free Trade Agreement . The president has often looked to Gore for advice on foreign-policy issues
AL GORE 
“I see a 21st century economy where innovation and high technology not only fuel high paying jobs, but help connect more families to our prosperity”- Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., he received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, Al Gore became an investigative reporter with the Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University's Divinity School and then Law School. Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children- Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III; and three grandchildren: Wyatt Gore Schiff, Anna Hunger Schiff, and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff. He was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and won easy reelection in 1978, 1980, and 1982. As a representative he served on the House Intelligence Committee and spent eight hours a week pouring over arms-control literature. His paper, published in Congressional Quarterly, concluded that the single-warhead missile could help stem the nuclear arms race. In 1985, Gore won the senate seat vacated by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Jr. and served two terms. He launched a bid for the presidency in 1987. On Super Tuesday in 1988 he won the primaries in five southern states, but he wasn't able to maintain the momentum and dropped out of the race. He served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election winning the popular vote by around 500,000 but losing the electoral vote and therefore the race to George W Bush. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Ventures 1. Former Vice President Al Gore is cofounder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing. 2. Gore is also cofounder and Chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. 3. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. 4. Mr. Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history. In 2007, An Inconvenient Truth was awarded two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. 5. He authored the best-selling book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy. 6. The Climate Project (TCP) was founded in 2006 by Al Gore. As a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, TCP's mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. TCP supports more than 3,000 diverse and dedicated volunteers worldwide who have been personally trained by Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to deliver an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. TCP Presenters have delivered 70,000 presentations and have reached a combined global audience of 7.3 million people. Presentations are customized and frequently revised to include the latest climate science and can be requested free of charge by any size group or organization. Official TCP branches are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, and Mexico. TCP's global headquarters is located in Nashville, Tennessee. 7. The Alliance for Climate Protection is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States. With more than 5,000,000 members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Through its work with The Climate Project, Repower America, the WE Campaign, the Reality Coalition, and its affiliated organization, The Climate Protection Action Fund, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations. The Alliance draws together a diverse range of individuals and organizations by acting on its belief that the climate crisis impacts every one of us and transcends differences between political parties, faiths, geographies and cultures. The Alliance regularly partners with organizations from a broad cross-section of society including representatives of labor, faith, business, schools, women, agriculture, sportsmen, and many other communities. In doing so, the Alliance brings together faces and voices in a way that diversifies and strengthens the global network of concerned individuals who want to take action now on climate issues. The Alliance is guided by a prestigious, bi-partisan Board of Directors that includes three Nobel Prize winners and accomplished veterans from the worlds of business, politics and environmental advocacy. Accomplishments as Vice President Under the Clinton/Gore Administration, the U.S. economy expanded, according to David Greenberg (professor of history and media studies at Rutgers University) who argued that "by the end of the Clinton presidency, the numbers were uniformly impressive. Besides the record-high surpluses and the record-low poverty rates, the economy could boast the longest economic expansion in history; the lowest unemployment since the early 1970s; and the lowest poverty rates for single mothers, black Americans, and the aged." In addition, one of Gore's major works as Vice President was the National Performance Review, which pointed out waste, fraud, and other abuse in the federal government and stressed the need for cutting the size of the bureaucracy and the number of regulations. Gore stated that the National Performance Review later helped guide President Clinton when he down-sized the federal government The economic success of this administration was due in part to Gore's continued role as an Atari Democrat, promoting the development of information technology, which led to the dot-com boom (c. 1995-2001). Clinton and Gore entered office planning to finance research that would "flood the economy with innovative goods and services, lifting the general level of prosperity and strengthening American industry." Their overall aim was to fund the development of, "robotics, smart roads, biotechnology, machine tools, magnetic-levitation trains, fiber-optic communications and national computer networks. Also earmarked were a raft of basic technologies like digital imaging and data storage The vice president was also instrumental in the passage of 1993's North American Free Trade Agreement. The president has often looked to Gore for advice on foreign-policy issues. In fact, Gore favored action against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic long before the first shot was fired. His call for military intervention somewhat contradicts his humanitarian nature. When democracy or human rights are at stake, Gore has historically endorsed military intervention rather than diplomacy, as he did in Haiti. The environment and the Internet have been Gore's signature passions, both as vice president and as a senator and congressman from Tennessee. Gore beefed up on the imminent environmental crisis as a senator, becoming an expert on global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer, the destruction of rain forest, and new earth friendly technology. Gore was utilizing the Internet superhighway long before it was popular and has promoted its rapid growth. As vice president he instituted a federal program to wire all schools and libraries to the Internet. In a campaign speech, he said he wants all kids to be computer savvy by eighth grade and favors online tutoring and interactive classrooms. Sources:
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