This evening Nobel Prize Winner and former Vice President Al Gore gave a live webcast organized by Power Vote. Power Vote is a nation-wide non-partisan campaign the Energy Action Coalition has put together to try to motivate a million young voters who will pledge to vote for a clean and just energy solution and to hold political figures accountable for moving to reach that goal. http://www.powervote.org/about

The Gore webcast was designed to kickstart Power Vote's activism over the last 6 days before the U.S. Presidential election to get out the vote in favor of clean non-carbon sources of energy like wind and solar energy which will reduce the causes of global warming and requesting that people pledge to hold the political candidates accountable post-election for taking action to commit the U.S. to clean and renewable sources of energy.

Gore linked the naysayers who say that the plan for moving to non-carbon renewable sources of energy in ten years to those who claimed that President John F. Kennedy's plan to put human beings on the moon by the end of the decade was too far fetched. An interesting fact that Gore emphasized in his webcast was that the average age of the engineers in Mission Control in Houston, Texas when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time was 26 years of age, meaning that much of the technical ingenuity and enthusiasm, that helped us achieve Kennedy's ambitious goal was youth-driven. Gore also connected to goal of mobilizing young voters to those young people who placed their lives on the line and their bodies in front of fire hoses in Birmingham during the fight for civil rights.  

Hundreds of thousands of young people on college campuses and in communities large and small across the nation have already signed the pledge. In his webcast, Vice President Gore put the larger issues that are at stake if we continue on our present unsustainable path into perspective. Finally, he let us know that these next six days before this election is the chance for our generation to make history as well by mobilizing on campuses, in the streets and within communities across the nation to place the issue of clean energy on the electoral agenda and for keeping it on the political agenda after election day.