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  • Craig Stasila: 7:08 am on May 17, 2010

    Why does every address like this have to end with them blaring “Beautiful Day” by U2?  So overdone!

     
  • Craig Stasila: 7:08 am on May 17, 2010

    That about does it.  I hope you enjoyed the liveblog.  For a full video recap of the keynote, go to http://www.sapphirenow.com.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 7:06 am on May 17, 2010

    It will take a moral courage to start to solve the ecological problems facing us today.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 7:05 am on May 17, 2010

    Liveblog posting problems…  Hopefully will be resolved soon.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 7:00 am on May 17, 2010

    What is a great way for companies to reduce their carbon footprint?  Virtualization can greatly reduce the power needs of your data center facilities.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:57 am on May 17, 2010

    I really wish I had better seats.  I can’t get any good pictures of Al.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:56 am on May 17, 2010

    “Pollution is waste” of the manufacturing and business process.  Al Gore is imminently quotable.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:55 am on May 17, 2010

    “The hard choices we have to make are between the hard right and the easy wrong”

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:54 am on May 17, 2010

    “Leaders have to be able to make investments that pay off in the longer term”

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:54 am on May 17, 2010

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:52 am on May 17, 2010

    Al Gore is now giving props to SAP for its focus on sustainability.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:50 am on May 17, 2010

    Since our common understanding of cause and effect is limited by the our lifetime, we don’t tend to see the effects that our actions are causing.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:49 am on May 17, 2010

    The third factor is the most subtle, yet the most important:

    3. The way we think about the environment.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:49 am on May 17, 2010

    Al is now discussing the impact that excess atmospheric carbon has on the environment from melting ice caps and glaciers to the recent flooding in Nashville, TN.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:47 am on May 17, 2010

    “Our relationship to the earth has been radically impacted by three factors:”
    1. Population Change – “there are just many more of us”
    2. Science & Technology Revolution – specifically, the carbon based fuel used to power the industrial revolution

    Number 3 is forthcoming…

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:42 am on May 17, 2010

    Al Gore will be discussing sustainability

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:41 am on May 17, 2010

    And now, taking the stage in Orlando, is Nobel prize winner and former Vice President, Al Gore.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:40 am on May 17, 2010

    And with that, Sir Richard Branson bids us all adieu.

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:37 am on May 17, 2010

    Virgin was almost called Slipdisc Records.  Slipdisc Airlines doesn’t sound as good.

    When he first tried to register the trade name Virgin, he was denied as “virgin” was considered “rude”.  RB went to the dictionary to show that virgin means pure–the furthest thing from “rude”

     
  • Craig Stasila: 6:35 am on May 17, 2010

    RB is bullish on non-carbon emitting isobutanol and another, algae-based fuel to hopefully, someday, replace petrol-based fuels.

     
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