Posts Tagged ‘al gore’

Sheryl Crow Dodges Al Gore And Ed Begley Jr. In Green Car Challenge

November 20th 2009

Jay Leno might be a car guy, but he’s also a green guy!
Earlier this year, Ecorazzi reported that Leno had started a segment on his show called the Green Car Challenge, where celebrities take turns racing around a homemade track in a specially prepared Ford Focus-based battery car. While racing, the famous contestants face a [...]

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Al Gore To Hit ‘30 Rock’, Dwight Shrute Becomes ‘ReCyclops’

Former Vice-President to make his second guest appearance during NBC's Green Week of programming.

November 13th 2009

NBC’s Green Week is kicking off this Sunday and we’ve got a few scoops on what’s in store for two of our favorite shows.
Even our super (not) secret sources at GE have only been told so much about plot lines for The Office but here’s what we’ve got: “Dwight Schrute from The Office gets into [...]

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Al Gore And Stephen Colbert Debate Global Warming Solutions

November 5th 2009

Just last night, Stephen Colbert and Al Gore got together to discuss a solution to this pesky global warming problem.
In a pretty hilarious split screen Formidable Opponent segment, Colbert started off by interviewing himself and then introduced the former Vice President to chime in. Gore shared this piece of information:
“Stopping global warming doesn’t have to [...]

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Al Gore Agrees That Going Vegetarian Helps The Environment

But stops short of saying he's headed in that direction.

November 4th 2009

Ever since Al Gore introduced his famous slideshow to the world and stood up as a leader in the fight against climate change, advocates of the vegetarian scene have urged the former Vice President to acknowledge the link between eating less meat and helping the environment. Yesterday, Gore finally jumped on board saying that reducing [...]

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Al Gore: World’s First Carbon Billionaire?

Bring it.

November 3rd 2009

Al Gore is hitting the media circuit to drum up publicity for his new book “Our Choice” — and true to form, climate change deniers and the political right are quick to counter his time in the spotlight with jabs and scorn over his “green agenda”. This time, labeling Gore as a future “carbon billionaire” [...]

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Glenn Beck Sides With PETA, Decries Meatless Mondays, Hammers Gore

Blah. Blah. Blah.

October 28th 2009

Glenn Beck is several layers of crazy, but he does have a point when it comes to Al Gore and eating meat.
For the longest time, PETA has been urging Gore to address factory farming as detrimental to the environment — and promote a more vegetable-friendly diet as one big way to help “save the planet”. [...]

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Al Gore To Promote New Climate Change Book On ‘Letterman’

October 28th 2009

Expect to see a lot more of Al Gore in the media over the next couple weeks.
The Nobel Prize winner and Former VP is about to release a new book on the environment titled “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” On sale November 3rd, it was created by Gore a follow-up to [...]

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Google Earth Unveils New Climate Change Map, Al Gore Narrates

September 28th 2009

Google has added a new feature to its 3D mapping program, Google Earth, that allows you to plot firsthand the devastating predicted effects of climate change until the year 2100. From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Using data provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the search giant created new layers for Google Earth showing [...]

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Watch: Rush Limbaugh Hits Al Gore, Ed Begley In Jay Leno Green Car Challenge

September 25th 2009

Well, Rush Limbaugh certainly didn’t disappoint.
After a lengthy conversation with Jay Leno on his right-wing viewpoints (which unsurprisingly ended with the government taking away our liberty, rights to happiness, blah, blah), the radio host jumped into a Ford all-electric Focus and took to the racetrack.
Unlike Barrymore, who stuck her foot to the pedal immediately, Rush [...]

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Rush Limbaugh To Take Green Car Challenge On Leno This Week

That cardboard cutout of Al Gore doesn't stand a chance...

September 22nd 2009

In what’s definitely the most unlikely contestant so far, The Jay Leno Show has announced that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh will take part in the Green Car Challenge this Thursday night.
For those just tuning in, the challenge puts celebrities behind the wheel of Ford’s upcoming all-electric Focus and has them race around a custom-built [...]

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