California LCV's Environmental Leadership Awards Gala is a Great Success!

The evening of Thursday, November 30, 2006, the California League of Conservation Voters’ 13th Annual Environmental Leadership Awards Gala celebrated an extraordinary group of honorees for their work in Creating a Climate for Change.

At Smashbox Studios in Culver City, we recognized the team responsible for bringing us the film An Inconvenient Truth (Vice President Al Gore, director Davis Guggenheim, the producers Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Lesley Chilcott), as well as Assemblymember Fran Pavley, the author of groundbreaking global warming legislation.

Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez did an outstanding introduction for California's own Assemblymember Fran Pavley, while David Duchovny highlighted the work of the An Inconvenient Truth filmmakers before Davis Guggenheim accepted the award on their behalf. Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson charmed the audience with a heartfelt and humorous introduction for The Honorable Al Gore and Al Gore himself applauded CLCV for our work to keep California leading the nation in the fight against global warming. The program concluded with a live musical performance, but the party continued!

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