{text:bookmark-start} An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Lie {text:bookmark-end} Global Warming, Climate Change, and Going Green are clichés we have been hearing more and more of. These words represent big business. The Al Gore movie “An Inconvenient Truth” CNN shows like “Planet in Peril” why so much talk about global warming and who are the benefactors are of all this talk? Al Gore and big business have definitely benefited. Bank of America, McDonalds, Home Depot, Star Bucks, and Wal-Mart are some of the top companies leading the charge in going green. In some instances companies do it willingly, in other instances somewhat unwillingly, but in all cases green. In a USA Today article Edward Iwata said a growing wave of companies in all sectors of business are in bracing environmentally safe practices and saving hundreds of millions of dollars. This information came from corporate leaders and environmental groups. Green business practices can create a competitive business advantage and strengthen the bottom line according to the report. A perfect example is Sun Microsystems. It said it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2012 through several practices. Using cooler energy, energy-saving technology in its computer chips, as well as allowing thousands of its 34,000 employees to work at home are some of these practices. Permitting employees to telecommute has saved hundreds of millions of dollars over the past six years in real estate and fuel costs. Sun also made over $1 billion dollars just last year on its Niagara 1 server computer system. This system uses power-saving chips (Iwata, 2008). Gore helped found Generation Investment Management (GIM), a London based firm through which he and others pay for carbon offsets. Gore is chairman of t ...