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Al Gore in Athens: 'Leadership in a Changing World'
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Al Gore in Athens: 'Leadership in a Changing World'
(CSRwire) Leadership in a Changing World
Speaker: Al Gore
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Athenaeum InterContinental Athens
ECOWEEK is proud to announce the keynote lecture by former U.S. Vice
President and Peace Nobel Laureate Al Gore entitled Leadership in a
Changing World in Athens on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.
ECOWEEK invites Al Gore to Greece again this year, to address leadership
and environmental issues of global warming and climate change among
political, and business leaders in Greece. Al Gore presented his slide
show on global warming at the Athens Concert Hall in June 2007 invited by
ECOWEEK and Megaron Plus.
Al Gore is invited to speak at two events:
(a) A reception for a distinguished audience of 500 political and
business leaders at the Athenaeum InterContinental Athens, and
(b) A Q&A session with secondary-school students, following the
simultaneous screening of award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth
at the adjacent National Insurance Conference Centre. The speaker will be
introduced by Greek Minister of Education Mr. Evripides Stylianides and
ECOWEEK President Dr. Elias Messinas. It is a rare opportunity offered to
selected High School students to hold a discussion with a global leader
and environmental activist, who is the co-winner, with the United Nation's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change." Students
will then carry the message to their schools in every part of Greece.
Al Gore's keynote lecture opens ECOWEEK's 2008-2009 programmes of
screenings of documentary An Inconvenient Truth to more than 30,000 High
Schools students in Greece, Cyprus and Israel; the international young
architects Forum in 7 countries, and the announcement of ECOWEEK
international conference "Ecology + Leadership + Architecture" to take
place in Athens in April 2009. ECOWEEK has presented documentary An
Inconvenient Truth to an audience of more than 10,000 in Greece and
Cyprus, and more than 10,000 secondary-school students since 2007.
Leadership in a Changing World
Arguing that the physical changes in our planet will eventually influence
our global economy, Vice President Gore encourages political and business
audiences to consider broader issues -- environmental, social and
political -- when planning economic strategy. An active leader in
technology, Vice President Gore discusses technological advancement and
the potential of user involvement. He identifies key opportunities and
challenges in digital society. Acclaimed for his environmental
achievements, outlined in his bestselling Earth in the Balance: Ecology
and the Human Spirit, and his bestselling book that inspired an
Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, ultimately brings home
Vice President Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to
view global warming as a political issue but rather, as the moral
challenge facing our global civilisation.
Programme A -- Athenaeum InterContinental: Ballroom, Athens
(afternoon)
Lunch Reception, Athenaeum InterContinental Athens (Ballroom)
Opening Remarks & 1-hour Keynote Lecture by Al Gore entitled
Leadership in a Changing World
Programme B -- National Insurance Convention Center Conference Hall,
Athens (afternoon)
VP Gore meets Greek students at a unique Q&A session following the
screening of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with Al
Gore. This meeting is initiated and organised by ECOWEEK in co-operation
with the Hellenic Ministry of Education.
Opening remarks by Greece's Education Minister Evripidis Stylianidis
and Ecoweek President Dr. Elias Messinas
Screening of An Inconvenient Truth -- 97 min. Greek subtitles
Q&A session of Secondary School students with VP Gore Students will
then be asked to take the message back to their schools, where, in
cooperation with ECOWEEK, the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient
Truth will be screened at their school and a discussion will follow on the
environmental issues raised in the documentary.
This is a unique opportunity offered to Greek Gymnasium students from
Attica and surrounding regions to meet and communicate with a global
leader and environmental activist, who is the co-winner, with the United
Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate
change."
Screening of environmental documentaries in schools
Since 2007 ECOWEEK has undertaken to show the Oscar-winning documentary An
Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim starring Al Gore, throughout Greece
in screenings free of charge in schools, the army and events open and free
to the general public. Since 2007 ECOWEEK has shown this and other
environmental documentaries to an audience of more than 15,000, including
more than 6,000 High School students. Screenings have taken place
throughout Greece and in schools in Larnaka, Cyprus.
ECOWEEK's 2008-2009 programme, entitled "Team 15+300" includes more
screenings in schools by a team of ECOWEEK associates, trained in
leadership and the environment, to more than 300 schools and more than
30,000 students. The programme has the support of VESTAS SA and ECOWEEK
sponsor OSRAM SA. This programme is also scheduled to be implemented in
schools in the fire-stricken areas of Ileias prefecture with the support
of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Media sponsors (as at September 2, 2008): CSRwire (www.csrwire.com),
QualityNet (www.qualitynet.lighthouse.gr),
EuroCharity (www.eurocharity.org/en),
and Econews (www.econews.gr).
The Honorable Al Gore
45th Vice President of the United States of America
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Author, An Inconvenient Truth
Chairman, Current TV
Chairman, Generation Investment Management
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
Former Vice President Al Gore is Chairman of Current TV, an Emmy
award-winning, independently owned cable and satellite television
nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and
citizen journalism. He also serves as Chairman of Generation Investment
Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable
investing and a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufiled Byers. Al Gore is a
member of the board of directors of Apple and a senior adviser to Google.
He is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, a
non-profit organisation designed to help solve the climate crisis.
Al Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978,
1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as
the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993,
and served eight years. During the Administration, Al Gore was a central
member of President Clinton's economic team. He served as President of the
Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as
the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An
Inconvenient Truth and is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. His
current book, The Assault on Reason, is an indictment of the Bush-led
radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making,
and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates
their rule of unreason.
Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, live in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four
children and three grandchildren.
ECOWEEK
ECOWEEK is an international non-profit non-governmental organization.
ECOWEEK mission is to raise public awareness and involvement in
environmental protection, recycling, energy conservation, renewable
energy, and ‘green’ building. ECOWEEK started its activity on the
island of Aegina in 2005. In 2007 ECOWEEK spread out throughout Greece and
in 2008 ECOWEEK expanded its activity to Cyprus and Israel, is planning
partnerships in Botswana and Guatemala, and programs in Brussels, London
and New York. ECOWEEK founder and President is Yale graduate, Ford Fellow,
architect and environmental consultant Dr. Elias Messinas.
Sponsorship: Opportunities still available. Please contact Ecoweek at
ecoweek@ecoweek.gr
Invitations: Limited seats still available. To purchase, please contact
Ecoweek at ecoweek@ecoweek.gr
For more information please contact:
Elias Messinas, Int'l.Assoc.AIA ARCHITECT+30 . 6944. 664242www.ecoama.com
www.ecoweek.gr
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