Written the morning after attending Live Earth at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. with some changes and additions.

I am still recovering from attending Live Earth this past Saturday because it was a transformational experience unparalelled. It was truly an undertaking that was handled with a real concern for our planet.

AL GORE, YOU ARE TRULY A GREAT MAN!!

To see a global awakening that somehow enlightens the human spirit to see the moral imperative and to act on it. To see people actually giving a damn about their actions in regard to their effect not only on themselves but on the world. To see responsible governments globally that do not utilize resources for war and exacerbating the conditions that bring about war, poverty, disease, and hopelessness, but rather using them to really foster peace, prosperity, equality, and sustainability.

I cannot only imagine how freeing it is for Al Gore to not be constrained by political campaigns, handlers and schedules in his daily life, I can celebrate it because now that he is free of the pretense that goes with it, so am I as a supporter of his.

I believe it is so important to have Al Gore and others out here speaking as advocates for people and to mobilize smaller companies into taking on the task of becoming involved in the biofuel market in a way that will sustain the environment and the livelihoods of the people indigenous to those areas. What Mr. Gore is doing as a global environmental advocate is now the most important thing he could be doing in standing up to the status quo and in seeking a new way of not only doing business, but living.

Here's your answer.

New Zealand Climate Science Coalition policy panel chairman (now there's a mouthful) Owen McShane, another Flat Earth Society member no doubt, wants the New Zealand Superfund to challenge Al Gore on November 14 to answer a question they themselves could find the answer to if they only took the time to read themselves, rather than use this issue as a chance to take a whack at Al Gore because they think what he is doing is a ruse to run for President. See people, see what pushing a speculative political agenda ahead of what really matters gets you?

I just came from the live webcast at the NY Botanical Gardens where Al Gore and an array of very distinquished climate scientists and environmentalists spoke this morning, so please excuse any inconsistencies in this report on it, as I am writing it from memory.

Stories like the one excerpted below are the kind of reports I like reading, posting, and discussing, because they are about the people truly interested in spreading this message and in taking action, not just going through the motions for some political advantage as we see far too often.

It is the duty of all religions and beliefs and the duty of those who have no religion to respect this planet and cherish its gifts. It is a human duty.

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As someone who also believes in the words of Jesus Christ and a supreme being from whom all good flows, the well written article above illustrates perfectly what we as Christians should be doing to protect and preserve this planet, but it doesn't stop with just Christians. And that is what I was taught in my life as a child growing up in a church.

I grew up in a home where church was an integral part of our lives. Every Sunday from the time I was five years old I went to church with my parents who were also very involved in it. I went to Sunday School, was confirmed, served as an usher, a Church Council member (a post I was unanimously elected to five times,) and also sang in my church choir for 10 years as one of their lead soloists. I also started working when I was 15 as a teacher in the Community Summer Bible Study School where I taught 3-5 year olds, and did that for about three summers until I went to college.

Al Gore is premiering An Inconvenient Truth in Sydney, Austalia, and it is also set to premiere in the UK as well on September 15. Will the European response to this important film surpass the American response?

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