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24-Hour Gore Fest: Former Veep's Climate Reality Project Begins Tonight

A presentation about the connection between climate and weather in 24 locations around the world, every hour for 24 hours, culminating tomorrow with a presentation by Al Gore himself. Watch and learn.READ»

Conversations You Won't Overhear This Fall

As the summer ends and real work begins again, no one--from oil barons to politicians--is saying the things they should be saying.READ»

Hitting The Fan: Clever Teasers For Al Gore's Day Of Climate Reality

In preparation for the 24-hour marathon of climate change presentations, the Climate Reality Project has prepared a few short videos to amusingly communicate how dire the situation is.READ»

Verizon LTE Restored, iPhone Royal Wedding Live Streaming, Al Gore's New Interactive Book, And More...

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ»

Hara's Software-As-Service to Manage Abu Dhabi's Energy Use

Hara, an environmental and energy management software startup, already has some major customers--News Corp., Coca-Cola, and Safeway. But this week the company scored one of the biggest energy resource management deals in history.READ»

World Business Forum

It's no secret global commerce is stuck in the doldrums. Worldwide, economies are expected to average 3.5% growth over the next few years, compared with the 4.7% clip enjoyed from 2003 to 2008. Developed economies will do well to ...READ»

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At just 28, Jason Silva is thinking about DEATH - a lot

He’s one of the best-known faces on Al Gore’s TV network Current TV. Venezuelan born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalist, Anchorman,Documentary Filmmaker, and Content Curator. Silva says he ...READ»

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The True Inconveniences of Designing Al Gore's Office

For a high-profile environmentalist such as Gore, politics sometimes interfere with making the right decision.READ»

A Hopeful Response to Gore's Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's ultra-popular 2006 documentary film about climate change, may not be entirely responsible for the current sustainability craze, but it certainly hasn't hurt. There is one big flaw with the film, ...READ»

"Feisty" Steve Jobs Ponders a $40B Shopping Spree at Apple Shareholder Meeting

Described as "feisty," Steve Jobs was on form yesterday at Apple's shareholder meeting--his first back since the recent health issues that forced him to step down temporarily as CEO. One, Infinite Loop, on the Apple Campus, was the ...READ»

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The Investor Game of Chicken

Is the investment community engaged in a game of chicken or are they simply a bunch of carbon chickens?READ»

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An Inconvenient Typeface: How One Numeral *almost* Sunk Gore's New Book

It's a nail-biter of a story as typographers, designers, editors--and the former Vice President--rush to fix a pesky "I". That is... "1".READ»

Climate Power Brokers and Influencers: 10 People Who Count at Copenhagen

This morning's espresso-fueled breakfast debate centered on "who really matters" at Copenhagen amongst 15,000 world leaders, negotiators, scientists, business chiefs, NGOs who have descended on Denmark for 2 cold weeks in December.READ»

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Yesterday's Vision of Tomorrow: Cracking Open a Time Capsule from 1999

A voice from yesteryear calls out through the decade -- via his iBook with a 56k modem on Al Gore's series of tubes -- to see how far we've come.READ»

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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»

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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»