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Al Gore’s new book ‘Our Choice’ — a review by John Doerr

VentureBeat  Nov 03 09

[John Doerr is a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He submitted this review to VentureBeat. Al Gore was named a partner at Kleiner Perkins two years ago. Both will be speaking at GreenBeat, our conference on the smart grid on Nov.19]

Al Gore’s new book – Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis – is the perfect and powerful sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.

It is wonderfully accessible and pragmatic. Its eighteen chapters, lavishly illustrated, are a comprehensive menu of choices which is at once expansive and credible. Gore clearly conveys the scope of solutions to the climate crisis, solutions which are promising, practical and potent. Full story...



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