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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-19-08 08:31 PM
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Gore On Green: "business leaders are way ahead of political leaders"
Edited on Wed Mar-19-08 08:35 PM by RestoreGore
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2008/03/gore_on_green_business_leaders.html



CNET Reporter Martin LaMonica has a good write-up of the conversation. He states, in part, "Gore spoke from a location near his home in Nashville, Tenn., while Chambers was in San Jose, Calif., and the moderator of the event--ITN science editor Lawrence McGinty--spoke from outside London. People could watch over the Web and audiences listened and watched from the VoiceCon conference in Orlando, outside London, Warsaw, Dubai, and Paris.

The multi-location format drove home the basic point of the event: the Internet can help more people collaborate, something that is essential to solving the difficult challenge of climate change."

http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/hd_030308.html#webcasts

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The potential this has is huge. Not only can this techology be used to network more sustainably, it will save and make profit in the long run and perhaps even open up contacts that otherwise would not have been made without this technology. This is one facet of technology that is positive... Opening up new avenues of vision to challenge us to make the world a better place. This kind of technology could even be used in private homes and in businesses where employees work from home.

I listened to the podcast of this event and I never would have guessed the participants were in different places. And I agree with Mr. Gore and the consensus that this crisis is solvable if we but only see the opportunities we have to leading the way in such technologies to show the developing world that they too have a place in the solutions... and that requires political will. Hopefully, that will come very soon.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-19-08 08:35 PM
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1. looks like he will not be podcasting from the oval office. sad nt
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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-19-08 08:38 PM
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2. Whatever shape his office is, he is still here for us and I love him for it. ;-)
And as he stated business leaders are ahead of political leaders regarding this, and I know he will be instrumental in making a great seachange regarding solutions to the climate crisis.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-19-08 09:58 PM
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3. most if not all the advertisers in "Interiors& Sources" magazine
are green or environmental friendly.

the latest ....a new flooring is made from fly ash , recycled glass bottles or stone, and the glue contains 0 VOCs
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