Center for Social Innovation

Published: June 25, 2013 Download  50 minutes, recorded 2013-04-23

Former Vice President Al Gore describes how Corporate Social Responsibility is essential to Environmental Sustainability, as he speaks with students in the View from the Top Series at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this audio lecture, Mr. Gore explains why global warming is the most significant manifestation of a deeper underlying collision between human civilization and the planet’s ecological system. He shares his insights on leadership and climate crisis solutions, and provides data on population fertility management and the effects of current technology. In this Social Innovation Conversations, Stanford University podcast, Mr. Gore details how hyper-inequality is threatening to both Capitalism and Democracy, and identifies the need for reforms in markets, before suggesting alternatives to short term thinking and how to achieve Sustainable Capitalism.

Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. In addition, Gore is a senior partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as well as a member of the board of directors of Apple. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit focused on solutions to the climate crisis.

 

He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, and Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.The subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, he is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

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