Al Gore

Web's Inventor Finally Gets Twitter, but Can't Beat Al Gore's Three-Screen Mega-PC

Tim Berners-Lee, the British MIT engineer who first proposed and later implemented the World Wide Web as we know it, has joined Twitter. And he is not impressed. "Oops confusing user interfxce [sic]" he wrote in his first ...READ»

Five Qualities Venture Capital Firms Look For in Startups

Venture Capital is a term oft-bandied about, but sometimes it's a mysterious process. Speaking at Stanford University, Beth Seidenberg of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers tried to clear up a aspect: Whether a startup is ...READ»

Google Earth Adds Climate Change Tours Narrated By Al Gore

In addition to showing the worldwide impact of climate change scenarios, the Google Earth layers will eventually allow users to zoom in on specific neighborhoods. Hint: New York City, watch out. READ»

Summer Movies We're Afraid to See: 2 Fast, 2 Renewable

With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»

Piles Versus Files

Any way you stack it, some work is meant to be left out in the open.READ»

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Seven Ways to Cut Carbon Emissions, Courtesy of Tony Blair

Instead of taking the Dubya route of departing public life, former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair is going the way of Al Gore and championing climate change solutions. Blair's "Technology for a Low Carbon Future" report, part of his ...READ»

Letter from the Editor: Endless Energy

When staff writer Anya Kamenetz and her husband, an engineer at Google, went on their honeymoon, they set aside a week to volunteer at an AIDS hospice in Pune, India. The hospice, it turned out, desperately wanted its own Web site. ...READ»

• Beyond the Grid
• Create Your Own Economy
• The Evolution of Amazon
• Gavin Newsom Wants a Job

Al Gore: Oil "Junkie" America Needs Third World Help

The former Vice President, clean-shaven in a dark suit and black cowboy boots, pauses. "Junkies find veins in their toes, when the veins in their arms and legs collapse," he says to Charlie Rose. The audience suffers an ...READ»

What? Clean Air Act Caused Half of Global Warming, Says NASA

In what must rank as the mother of all unintended consequences, and in a finding certain to have effects on international policy, NASA scientists have found that a decrease in airborne sulfates--dirty smokestack particles ...READ»

Now I Know How Al Gore Feels

I’ve been an environmental advocate for the same couple of decades, always suspecting that my friends raised an eyebrow or two over my predictions and admonitions about sustainability (my family, however, was not subtle about raising their eyebrows). I worked for the day when thinking “green” would be a normal part of everyday life. Well, just as Al Gore’s day(s) arrived in 2007, my days arrived this week.READ»

Al Gore Says Forget .com & .net--We Need .eco!

After years of being teased for Internet hubris, Al Gore once again is taking his MO back to the Internet. Today, he and his group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, will be lobbing for a new ".eco" domain that ...READ»

Who Gets "It"? The Alliance For Climate Protection Doesn’t

I like looking at logos. The good and the not so good, and trying to discern how they were conceived, the strategic thought process that went into developing the strategy, and then into the design itself. But a few months ago I read ...READ»

Obscura Digital's High Def Projections

A multi-media design lab out of San Francisco lights up companies such as GM, Google, and Oracle with mind-blowing projections. READ»

• The State of Mobile Advertising

The Leading Edge - Gore/Obama '08, Obama/? '12

(also at basil and spice) A Presidential Prediction From the World of Emotional Intelligence If you haven't noticed, more people act (or more accurately react) from emotion than reason. If you need evidence of that, you ...READ»

What To Do Now

The world today is facing an unprecedented set of crises. The most recent to burst upon public awareness is that of global warming, and it is indeed a matter of urgency and of critical importance. We have, according to the ...READ»