SU to vote on funding Gore, others to speak | Washington University, St Louis

The College Democrats will be appealing for almost $145,000 to pay Al Gore to speak on campus. That is equal to the amount used to fund the eight main speakers last year, including news anchor Soledad O’Brien, PostSecret founder Frank Warren, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and journalist Nicholas Kristof.

If passed, it would be SU Treasury’s first time allocating more than $100,000 toward one speaker. Last year, it rejected the College Democrats’ appeal for $127,000 to bring TV comedy personality Bill Maher to campus.

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for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story

Local scientists want people to renew focus on climate change | MailTribune.com

Jim McGinnis, a member of the Ashland Conservation Commission and a climate change specialist with the U.S. Forest Service, said the nation's increasing gross national product and consumption cannot be sustained in the long term.

"The standard of living must level off," said McGinnis, a lecturer with Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. "This country consumes five Earths, while India consumes one-tenth of an Earth." An "Earth," he explained, is the level of human consumption that can be sustained by a population year-to-year.

Landscape That Inspired David Hockney Threatened By Wind Turbines

The unique landscape that inspired the latest David Hockney paintings is in danger of being “swamped” by wind turbines.