Wednesday,
February 28, 2007
6:30 p.m.

BankUnited Center
at the University of Miami
1245 Dauer Drive
Coral Gables Campus

Vice President AL GORE has once again emerged front and center on the national and international stage with wide acclaim for both his bestselling book, An Inconvenient Truth, and the major motion picture based on it. Since the 2000 election, Vice President Gore rechanneled his energy to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. He urgently delivers the stirring truth about what he calls our “planetary emergency.”

Throughout his career, Al Gore’s environmental record is unparalleled. His pioneering efforts to protect the earth’s ozone layer and to clean up toxic-waste dumps were outlined in his bestselling book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton Administration’s efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthened the economy—such as working with automakers to support the development of a new generation of fuel as well as energy-efficient vehicles. He also spearheaded innovative initiatives to combat global warming by helping the United States lead the estimated $400 billion worldwide market for new technologies that clean up the environment.

Raised in Carthage, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., Vice President Gore’s political career began in 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served eight years, followed by his election to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and re-election in 1990. Al Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993.

An Inconvenient Truth ultimately brings home Vice President Al Gore’s persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue but rather as the greatest moral challenge facing our global civilization.