2010 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition
General Session with Al Gore
SHRM Recommended Readings
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
An Inconvenient Truth
Assault on Reason
The world’s most influential voice on climate change, an advisor to leaders in Congress, and heads of state throughout the world, former Vice President Al Gore offers a unique perspective on national and international affairs. Vice President Gore is co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing.

He is also co-founder and Chairman of Current TV, an Emmy-award winning, independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer created content and citizen journalism. Vice President Gore is Chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a member of the board of Apple, a senior advisor to Google, and visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Vice President 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. His newest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, gathers in one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now and that, together, will help solve the climate crisis.

Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Al Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. His pioneering efforts were outlined in his 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.
Presenter
Al Gore
Location
San Diego Convention Center
Credits
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Date(s) & Time(s)
6/28/2010 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Track(s)
General
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