Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s arrival at the Aspen Institute today will surely stoke the green embers in the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond, but it also a reminder that we have all become visitors in his world and on his planet. “Al Gore–he of the overbearing environmental consciousness going back decades–arrives in Aspen today in full green regalia,” blogs the Con Man, “the prophet no longer scorned. He’s so cool now he’s on the board of Apple and he owns a chunk of Current, the channel that relies on user-supplied videos for content. In the Live Earth concert just past, his mug (sans beard) and his ideas reached around the world.”