The District of Columbia signed on to be an official flagship city for Earth Hour 2009, a global climate change event.   While Earth Hour, brought spotty darkness across the globe, Gore apparently frolicked in the light, according the Post Politics:

“The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.”