Why does every address like this have to end with them blaring “Beautiful Day” by U2? So overdone!
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That about does it. I hope you enjoyed the liveblog. For a full video recap of the keynote, go to http://www.sapphirenow.com.
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It will take a moral courage to start to solve the ecological problems facing us today.
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Liveblog posting problems… Hopefully will be resolved soon.
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What is a great way for companies to reduce their carbon footprint? Virtualization can greatly reduce the power needs of your data center facilities.
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I really wish I had better seats. I can’t get any good pictures of Al.
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“Pollution is waste” of the manufacturing and business process. Al Gore is imminently quotable.
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“The hard choices we have to make are between the hard right and the easy wrong”
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“Leaders have to be able to make investments that pay off in the longer term”
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Al Gore is now giving props to SAP for its focus on sustainability.
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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.
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The third factor is the most subtle, yet the most important:
3. The way we think about the environment.
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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.
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“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 revolutionNumber 3 is forthcoming…
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Al Gore will be discussing sustainability
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And now, taking the stage in Orlando, is Nobel prize winner and former Vice President, Al Gore.
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And with that, Sir Richard Branson bids us all adieu.
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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”
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RB is bullish on non-carbon emitting isobutanol and another, algae-based fuel to hopefully, someday, replace petrol-based fuels.
