An Afternoon with Al Gore

Green Living

The Nobel Prize winner discusses the environment and what can be done to solve the climate crisis.

Former Vice President Al Gore has devoted his post-political career to the environment, winning an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth and the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to counteract climate change. He’s published a new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, in both adult and children’s editions, that addresses key environmental issues and the policy changes that may solve them.

Gore spoke about the book to librarians January 16 in Boston. You can view the entire speech on YouTube (approximately 83 minutes).

For more information on the environment and what you can do to fight climate change, visit your library for these and other resources:

Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate
by Stephen H. Schneider
Nobel Prize-winner Schneider offers insight into four decades of global-warming science and politics, including discussions of the work accomplished at conferences and meetings over the years.

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
by James E. Hansen
Hansen, a NASA climatologist, writes about the dynamics and consequences of global warming, and one possible—and possibly controversial—solution.

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore
Predecessor to Our Choice and Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary of the same name, this book focuses on how humankind is altering the earth’s atmosphere, and what the consequences are likely to be. Also available in a young readers’edition.