December 1st 2007
The Fortune Forum Summit Brings Out Hannah, Gore And Many More
Filed under: events, green and famous — parrish @ 9:00 pm
Ever thought about grabbing a brew with Al Gore or playing canasta with Daryl Hannah? Well if you were in London this week you could have (no promise about the canasta) at the second ever Fortune Forum Summit. Never heard of it? Well, the Fortune Forum Summit is basically an event for people who have way more money than you and I will ever see to get together and donate, donate, donate in the name of c-h-a-r-i-t-y. Exactly how much cash must you have to play with the big boys? Well, just to get in the door you would have paid £1,000 and if you’d like to have seen Al Gore in the special V.I.P room, that would have set you back an additional £10,000. By the end of the night it was calculated that the 400 or so guests were worth over £100bn. You get the point.
Never afraid of big spending, this year a slew of the generous and famous came out to show their support. Some celebrities included: Daryl Hannah, Damien Rice, Jerry Hall and Christian Slater. And who exactly got the loot? The good folks at The British Red Cross, Cancer Research, African Renaissance, Water Aid and clean energy promoters Ice Circle all benefited from the night of fun.
Now there’s only one question left. Where can I sign up my charity, The Parrish Monthly Room And Board Allowance, for next year’s big show down.
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Was Gore supposed to announce a technological breakthrough? Did he do so? The challenge is incredible to transcend carbon fuels while becoming clean.
Steve LeVine, author
The Oil and the Glory (Random House)
http://www.oilandglory.com
Yea, what happened to the announcement, I can’t find anything about it anywhere.
Check out the website media section:
http://www.fortuneforum.org
It’s amazing really… new boss same as the old boss… let’s let those who created the problem solve the problem, like that’s going to happen… In the meantime, back at the ranch, GE is getting ready to put hundreds of nuclear reactors at sea for an ALL nuclear Navy… this while they sell you a couple EcoMagination solar panels and wind mills to keep the greenies from screaming… Look guys, face it, short of a rEVolution… we’re toast… so why isn’t anyone really grabbing the bull by the horns? We’re that frog getting stewed in An Inconvenient Truth… problem is the likes of Gore and Laurie David can’t walk the talk… hurts them too much… Darryl Hannah is cool though, I’m glad she got to go… People look at her and they realize how real this is… while dripping diamonds and pearls… sigh.
Well Remy, I suppose we do what we can. Daryl drives biodiesel, you share links, I blog. I think that progress is progress, small or large. Revolutions take time.