That's Essential Skill #37 in The Live Earth Global Warming Handbook.
Our hero inspired this blog. From his organization of the Live Earth Concerts ... to his book and movie An Inconvenient Truth ... to his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize -- no one has raised awareness of climate change more than Al Gore.
Yet, Al Gore is one of countless eco-heroes whose lasting legacy on this earth will be the dedicated work they did on its behalf.
Handbook author David de Rothschild highlights some of these heroes, like:
- Jacques Cousteau, a scuba diver whose television specials showed us the importance of appreciating and preserving marine life
- Petra Kelly, who co-founded the German Green Party -- the world's first environmentalist party to achieve political significance
- John Muir, who co-founded the Sierra Club and helped Yosemite win designation as a national park
- Greg Nickels, the Seattle mayor who created the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement that hundreds have now signed
- Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya, which has planted more than 20 million acres of trees.
- Yvon Chouinard, a rock-climber who developed "clean climbing" equipment to minimize damage to the rocks
- Adam Wajrak, Poland's leading environmental journalist, working to protect wildlife threatened by post-communist development
- William McDonough, a leading architect in the sustainability movement
Read about other eco-heroes in the Ecology Hall of Fame.
As I said, our hero -- Al Gore -- inspired us to create this blog, as well as the associated website, Living Live Earth.
What does your eco-hero inspire in you?
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Our heroes are represented in the long list of links that we add to every week -- from Daryl Hannah to Leonardo DiCaprio to (of course) Al Gore. We've also got to give a shout-out to David de Rothschild, author of the book that inspires and informs this blog every single week -- The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook.
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