While spending Earth
Day at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference, held at the Ritz Carlton
in Laguna Niguel, California, I couldn’t help but marvel at how far
we’ve come since I started covering the trash beat on Earth Day, 1997.
Listening to Bill Clinton’s keynote on climate change, and hearing executives from IBM, GE, and WalMart tout their impressive sustainability initiatives, one could not help but feel a glimmer of green optimism.
David Vasquez of Public Vision Research talks about the Sun Train for an American Railway Renaissance. LISTEN (11 min)
Read David's book Mr Swan's Big idea.
(Nashville, Tennessee, May 14, 2009)— The Climate Project (TCP), an international non-profit founded by former Vice President Al Gore with a mission to increase public awareness of the climate crisis at a grassroots level worldwide, is opening its North American Summit in Nashville today.
During the three day event, Gore will address more than 500 attendees as well as conduct a three hour training workshop. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will also be present. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and journalist Dr. David Suzuki will join Gore and Pachauri, establishing the first time in history that three of the most recognized names in climate change have ever appeared together.
