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News Release Dec. 4, 2006
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Al Gore |
The Frank Church Institute announced today that former Vice President Al Gore
will be the keynote speaker at a conference titled “Global Warming: Beyond the
Inconvenient Truth,” held Jan. 22 at Boise State University.
The 23rd annual Frank Church Conference will feature a number of experts from
around the country and the region who will address potential solutions to global
warming. The daylong conference is from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Union
Jordan Ballroom. The day sessions are free and open to the public.
Vice President Gore will give the keynote address (closed to video/audio
recording) at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Ballroom following a 5 p.m. reception at the
Banner Bank Building. The Banner Bank has been designated as one of the
highest-level LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings in
the world.
The vice president’s speech will also be free and open to the public, but
advance tickets will be required. Free keynote address tickets will be available
at the BSU Student Union Information Desk beginning Jan. 3. A limited number of
reserved seating tickets will be available for sale, as well as tickets for the
reception and the luncheon. For further information, contact Garry Wenske,
executive director of the Frank Church Institute, at (208) 426-2941, or by
e-mail at GarryWenske@boisestate.edu.
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Contact: Garry Wenske, Frank Church Institute, (208) 426-2941,
GarryWenske@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
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The Honorable Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment
Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing.
Gore is also cofounder and chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable
and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created
content and citizen journalism. A member of the board of directors of Apple
Computer Inc. and a senior adviser to Google Inc., Gore is also a visiting
professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Gore is the author of “An Inconvenient Truth,” currently a best-selling book on
the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the movie of
the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in
history.
Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Gore has been the
leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. His pioneering
efforts were outlined in his best-selling book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology
and the Human Spirit” (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts
to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy.
Gore was born March 31, 1948, to former U.S. Senator Albert Gore Sr. and Pauline
Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tenn., and Washington, D.C., in 1969 he received a
degree in government with honors from Harvard University. Following graduation,
he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War.
Upon returning from Vietnam, Gore became an investigative reporter with The
Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University’s divinity
school and then law school.
Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville. They have four children —
Karenna, Kristin, Sarah and Albert III; and two grandchildren — Wyatt Gore
Schiff and Anna Hunger Schiff.
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