Der Sierra Club ist die älteste und größte amerikanische Umweltschutzorganisation. Die Organisation wurde 1892 von John Muir , dem "Vater der Nationalparks", gegründet. Im folgenden finden Sie die Ankündigung der Preisverleihung, die am 29. September 2007 in San Franzisko stattfand.

SIERRA CLUB ANNOUNCES 2007 NATIONAL AWARDS

SAN FRANCISCO, California

Former Vice President Al Gore, who has spent 30 years making the world aware of the dangers of global warming, will receive the Sierra Club’s top award, the John Muir Award.

Between his earliest political career in 1976 as a representative of Tennessee’s Fourth District, and his two-term vice presidency beginning in 1993, Gore helped set the political and popular stages for prime-time environmentalism.

He was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s.

Since then, he has presented the science behind global warming and its predicted catastrophic effects more than 1,000 times. His message finally reached the broad public consciousness with the 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The film has won numerous awards, including two Academy Awards. His paperback book of the same name also reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.

On July 7th, 2007, Gore reached a record-shattering global audience with his Live Earth Concerts, when he orchestrated 24 hours of concerts on seven continents asking for each person watching to make a pledge to take action for the environment. He has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change.

" Al Gore is the embodiment of the principles for which John Muir passionately devoted his life: to protect a place for its own sake, for our sake, and even in spite of us, a place we call Earth ," said Sierra Club President Dr. Robbie Cox.

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