Al Gore is in San Francisco for last few days and got the news today morning. I heard it on NPR on my way to work. He decided to donate the prize money,750K $ to a bay area (palo alto, to be specific) based environmental organization.
I've been a long time supporter of the drive to protect and preserve the environment and spread the word around. I dont belong to either right or left wing and as much as i like Al Gore for his contribution to the cause of environment, I do not fully support him for political reasons, even though I agree he would be good candidate as next United Nations Secretary-General.
Well in all this one thing is clear - we (the environmentalists) aint not fighting for no cause; and announcement of Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore is a stamp that the world now recognizes environmental misadventure as a biggest threat to the existence of mankind. Not only are we destroying it for ourselves, future generation but also for billions of other life forms who supposedly have the same stake on this planet as us.

Am watching the Live Earth concert while writing this Blog, the concerts are live in Australia, Japan, China, Germany, UK, US-DC, South Africa, US-NY and Brazil. Its a good way to make people aware of the challenges our environment is facing and show them the ways on how to reduce their carbon foot prints.
We don’t have to be a superhero to save this planet. A small contribution by each of us can make a big difference. To start with, take a small step, ask urself, if you really know the problem, if not, search on the keyword "Global Warming".
Next step would be to realize that there's something you can do, read http://www.climateprotect.org/ , http://www.asimpleswitch.com/ , then calculate your carbon footprints http://www.earthlab.com/liveearth .
Now that you are fully aware of the problem and realize that ur the part of the problem, make a pledge http://liveearthpledge.org/msn.php and please be upto it.
Our responsibility does not end here, now we have a daunting task to make others aware of this problem and engage them in the program by making them realize that they are the part of problem too.