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Our Choice; A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
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Our Choice; A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Trade paperback - 2009

by Gore, Al

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Emmaus, PA: Rodale, Inc. and produced by Melcher Media, 2009. First Edition, First Printing thus. Trade paperback. Very good. Don Foley. 414, [2] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Credits. Index. Covers have flaps front and back. Our Choice is a 2009 book written by former U.S> Vice President Al Gore. It follows a companion book to the film An Inconvenient Truth. All profits of the book (printed on 100% recycled paper) go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which Gore founded in 2006. Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American environmentalist and politician who served as the45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Chosen as Clinton's running mate in their successful 1992 campaign, he was reelected in 1996. At the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2000. After leaving office, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Congressman from Tennessee (1977 85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state's Senators. He served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. In the 2000 presidential election, in what was one of the closest presidential races in history, he lost.
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  • Title Our Choice; A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
  • Author Gore, Al
  • Illustrator Don Foley
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition First Edition, First Printing thus
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rodale, Inc. and produced by Melcher Media, Emmaus, PA
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 72215
  • ISBN 9781594867347 / 1594867348
  • Weight 2.06 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 7.46 x 0.95 in (22.61 x 18.95 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 950
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009038291
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.738

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About the author

Al Gore is the cofounder and chairman of Current TV, an Emmy Award-winning, independently owned cable and satellite television news and information network for young people based on viewer-created content, citizen journalism, and investigative reporting. He is also cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. Gore is a partner with the venture capial firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple, and a senior advisor to Google. He is a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and chairs a nonprofit organization designed to help solve the climate crisis-the Alliance for Climate Protection-to which he is donating 100 percent of his earnings from this book.

Gore was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and then to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served for eight years. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, An Inconvenient Truth, and The Assault on Reason and was featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary. He was a corecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Al Gore lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his wife, Tipper, have four children and three grandchildren.

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