24 Hours of Reality, starting tonight [VIDEO] | Grist

The grand finale will be an hour-long presentation by the Goracle himself in New York City, at 7 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 15.

Himalayas expedition finds evidence of 'disaster in the making' | Suzanne Goldenberg | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Much of the juniper has been cut down for firewood. Its disappearance is a disaster in the making, the scientists of the Mountain Institute say.
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There is no easy fix though. Kerosene is a more expensive cooking fuel. Solar is just too slow. A number of homes along our route have huge reflective solar dishes, which can be used to heat water for cooking or bathing. "It makes life easier sometimes," said Dilli Kumar Rai, who lives just outside the village of Tengoche. But she added, it still takes 45 minutes to make a cup of tea.

Are We Ready for Al Gore’s Climate Reality? - Ecocentric - TIME.com

As Gore and others in the environmental movement know too well, the deniers have been winning the battle on climate change in the U.S.—on public opinion, if not the science itself...there's no denying the fact that Gore and his allies have so far failed to convince enough Americans to share their urgency over global warming.
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Well, Al Gore is nothing if not massively cerebral

Al Gore Got a D in Natural Sciences at Harvard | NewsBusters.org

For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year.