On
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Rodale Books and Vice
President Al Gore celebrated
the publication of his new book Our Choice: A Plan
to Solve the Climate Crisis at The American Museum of Natural History’s Gottesman Hall
of Planet Earth.
The evening was hosted by Maria Rodale, Chairman and
CEO of Rodale Inc. and Karen Rinaldi, Senior Vice President of Rodale
Books.
Notable guests included Vice President Al Gore and Tipper
Gore, Maria Rodale, Maya Rodale, Heather Rodale, Karenna Gore Schiff,
NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Governor Mario and Matilda
Cuomo, Patrick Stewart, Ambassador Richard Gardner, Ambassador Alan and Melinda
Blinken, Ambassador Jan Grauls and Mia Gordts, Men’s
Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko, Prevention editor-in-chief Liz
Vaccariello, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and Matt
Nye, Fabiola Arrendondo, Dr. William F. Baker, Dr. Tim LaSalle, Colin
Dickerman, Helena Durst, Jonathan Durst, Ellen V. Futter, Jon Meacham,
Norman Pearlstine and Jane Boon, Theodore Roosevelt
V. and Serena Torrey, Ashley Schiff Ramos, David and Lisa
Schiff, Larry Linden, Steve Riggio, Hilary Shor, Susan Smith Ellis and Constance
Spahn.
Our Choice, published as the companion book to Gore’s New
York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale 2006), gathers in
one place all of the most effective solutions that are available now
and that, together, will solve the climate crisis. It is meant to depoliticize
the issue as much as possible and inspire readers to take action — not
only on an individual basis, but as participants in the processes by
which every country, and the world as a whole, makes the choice that
now confronts us.