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Al Gore's Alliance For Climate Protection Begins Three-Year Ad Campaign

The product? Global warming awareness

As far as TV history goes, public service announcements will go down as a small but memorable slice of the great broadcast pie. The weeping Native American, brought to tears by the garbage strewn across his great country's highways. "Knowing is half the battle." "This is drugs; this is your brain on drugs." And so on.

Now, Al Gore and his Alliance for Climate Protection group have begun a privately funded PSA of their own with hopes of rallying the general public to the cause of preventing a global climate crisis.

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Whole-ier Than Thou

The carbon benefits of a hermit lifestyle

According to safeclimate.net, Nicole is an enviro angel

Dear Mega Carbon Emitter... I mean, Megan: I love a challenge, especially one thats impossible to lose. See, heres the thing—its not that Im more environmentally savvy than you (hemp? ew!); its just that I never leave New York City. I rarely travel. Im practically a hermit. And hermits have tiny, tiny carbon footprints. Like baby shoes.

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