New Releases by Al Gore

Al Gore explores the primary causes of the current climate crisis and what people can do to help solve it.

A powerful indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a rallying cry for a return to reason-based policies at home and abroad.

A collection of quotes by former Vice President Al Gore.

Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it helped place the environment on the national agenda; now, as environmental issues move front-and-center in the public consciousness, the time is right to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet and commit ourselves to its future. While An Inconvenient Truth closely examines one menace to our environment--global warming--Earth in the Balance takes a broader approach, focusing on the threats that everyday choices pose to our climate, water, soil, and diversity of plant and animal life. A passionate, lifelong defender of the environment, Gore describes in brave and unforgettable terms how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us.

In this moving exploration of the contemporary family landscape, the Gores share stories drawn from their own experiences, as well as introduce readers to a dozen other families they have come to know over the years.

In this A-Z compilation of Al Gore's opinions, positions, and public statements, the vice president is quoted on such issues as the environment, the Internet, family values, and diversity.

Illustrated with cartoon strips from the popular Dilbert series, this book by V.P. Al Gore examines lessons learned from examining successful American businesses in the effort to reinvent the U.S. gov't. Drawing from input at the Summit Conf. on Reinventing Gov't. and dozens of meetings with top executives and management experts, this handbook details key principles and achievements that can be applied to practices of the Fed. gov't. Includes: providing service to the taxpayer as a customer of the gov't., unleashing the creative power of gov't. employees, cutting waste and red tape, technology, and effective regulators in partnership with industry, and more.

This report details 12 recommendations and actions, agency re-invention activities, and fiscal impact analyses for the Department of Education resulting from the National Performance Review. Overall, the recommendations and analyses show that the Department could save $173.2 million by 1999 and that, by adopting these recommendations to clarify and simplify its work, the Department could operate more effectively. The recommendations are: (1) redesign of Chapter 1 of the elementary and Secondary Education Act; (2) reduction of the number of programs the Department of Education administers; (3) consolidation of the Eisenhower Math and Science Education Program with Chapter 2; (4) consolidation of National Security Education Act programs; (5) streamlining and improving the Department's grants process; (6) provision of incentives for the Department's debt collection service; (7) simplification and strengthening of the institutional eligibility and certification for participation in federal student aid; (8) creation of a single point of contact of program and grant information; (9) improvement of employee development opportunities; (10) elimination of the grant-back statutory provision of the General Education Provisions act; (11) construction of a professional, mission-driven structure for research; and (12) development of a strategy for technical assistance and information dissemination. Appendixes contain justifications for the elimination of programs and list accompanying reports of the National Performance Review. (JB)

And finally, among its other recommendations, this report suggests that agencies concentrate their regulatory resources on the most serious environmental, health, and safety risks and engage in long-term regulatory planning; that the President order relevant agencies to create science advisory boards as tools to use scientific data more widely in agenda-setting and decision making; that agencies establish technical drafting services for congressional committees and subcommittees; and that the administration take steps to provide more training for agency heads and staff.

Statements and plans by Clinton and Gore made in the early 90's on how they will put people first.