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Al Gore on the Earth in Balance

November 8, 2007

al goreI have had a number of very late nights over the past few days as I work on the next iteration of this site. During this time I have been consuming hours of audio programming produced by the Conversations Network. I have been a bit of a Conversations Network junkie for awhile now. Actually, I have been a Conversations Network Junkie since it’s very beginning. Early on the audio available was largely of a tech nature, with topics such as Linux, various programming languages, and emerging tech trends.

Over time a variety of other content began to find its way into the network such as recordings from PopTech, which weren’t always about technology, with topics such as global warming, population and human dynamics. It was around this time that I really started to see the potential of time shifted audio and the value of time shifted conversation that could go along with it. It was at this point I decided that new, now, social (pick whichever you like best!) media was the place/business for me. In past 2 years I have amassed well over a hundred hours of recordings from a variety of events, mostly in the “green” space and have been slowly publishing these works for audiences who may have missed out on the events the first time around. For example, we just finished editing an hour long lecture on Wind Power with Glen Estill of Sky Generation in Lions Head from the Kimbercote Renewable Energy Festival this past spring.

So what does Al Gore have to do with all of this? Well despite the fact that I have never met him face to face, or even been in the same room for that matter, I have had the opportunity to hear him speak a number of times and to a number of different audiences. I will likely post some more links here in future, but for the meantime have a listen to the “former Vice President Al Gore, who passionately urges a Stanford Business School audience to take action to save the environment.”

You can grab the mp3 of the talk here (right click save as to download, or just click the link to listen in your browser)

For more about Al Gore, this Talk to the Stanford Business School, and a bunch of other great Social Innovation topics be sure to check out Social Innovation Conversations.

*If you happened to be at Stanford that night, sorry for the repeat!, you can skip this post

** Also the model by which the Conversations Network produces and distributes shows is of interest (well it is to me anyway b/c I am sitting on a huge backlog of audio to be published), and if you think it’s interesting too then drop me a line.

***The real value here, as always, is the fact that this post and this audio lecture isn’t the whole story. Your thoughts and ideas and criticisms and negativity ok scratch that last one, are very much welcomed here. Please take a moment to add a comment below. I would love to generate some discussion on just what impacts this whole Global Warming deal might have on the local area. Once we get through the impacts then we can move on to the real good stuff… like what do we do to mitigate them? and how do we make that process economically and socially beneficial to the area?

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Written by Ryan · Filed Under Sustainability, Lions Head, Podcast, Conservation, The Environment, Participation, Audio 

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