Assignment #5 on a speaker

I chose to do Al Gore because he is my favorite speaker. Although he may be a very popular speaker and known global icon for our climate, he just sticks out to me in so many other ways. The second I read the assignment I had him in my head, and hoped he was on the Ted Talks website, and of course he was!
Many of you know Al Gore as a former Vice President of the US, then not long after he became one of the largest spokesman for Global Warming and made the movie "Inconvenient Truth". The speech he gave that I watched was about what we can do as consumers to help in cutting our carbon output. In his speeches he uses a little comedy, his voice is extremely easy to listen to, and he gets to the point and has all the facts there so you can believe every word he's saying. He gives you things you can do to make a difference. The video on his speech I watched was filmed in 2006, right before his movie came out. In his speech, one of his recommendations was to talk about what it is you want to change, to spread the word, get people to get involved, influence them. I thought that really related to my mission statement and to being a leader in general, was to influence the people around me and to get them interested and motivated. Not only did seeing his speech for this assignment help me be better focused on my own mission, but it also got me motivated again on things globally that I used to feel strongly about, but lost sight of a little bit from all the things going on in my life. I am starting to realize that I need to get back to those things I used to be passionate about, because the last 2 years have kind of been very monotone for me. The link to the speech I watched is:
http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_on_averting_climate_crisis.html