This morning Al Gore is speaking at the BSR Conference in San Francisco, and I look forward to listening to the passionate, unschackled Mr. Gore.

BSR’s Conference 2011, Redefining Leadership, will be next week, November 1-4, in San Francisco, and we will be there.

We have always been a huge fan of Daniela Mercury because of her hard work to entrench cultural sustainability throughout Brazil. Now we can say that Daniela is becoming an ambassador for Brazilians’ advocacy for environmental sustainability, too.

Al Gore has plenty of critics—I liked him more when he first ran for President in 1988 when he was barely of the age that qualified him to hold the nation’s highest office. His 150 second video gets straight to the point, and I suggest you watch it and vote No on Prop 23.

The President punted tonight. He could have given a clarion call to push for a clean energy policy that would have been painful, but necessary. He could have given a “teachable moment” about the costs involved with our addiction to oil. But instead he gave us platitudes, boasted about his energy secretary’s Nobel Prize (why do we keep hearing that?), asked that we pray, and made no attempt to push Congress to pass any energy-related legislation.