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Photo: seccad, Creative Commons, Flickr For the most part, French companies haven’t been overly concerned with what others are doing. If there’s profit, often that’s good enough. And that seemed to be the case with regard to a recent deal in the works between the French supermajor, Total (TOT), and Iran. Total was going to…
It doesn’t seem strange that a Texas oilman (and a Republican to boot) would come with a way to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. After all, Big Oil companies like Exxon (XOM), Chevron (CVX) and ConocoPhillips (COP) are chomping at the bit to reduce imports of foreign oil by allowing more domestic drilling offshore…
I went to the Apple (AAPL – $175.92) store today to get a new laptop charger (the old charger’s wires are frayed near the power port and it doesn’t work anymore).
Uranus influences can manifest as a defiant and rebellious energy in an effort to challenge authority. Uranus energy is erratic and unpredictable. Uranus rules uranium, an element that, if enriched, can supply the fuel to build a nuclear weapon. These characteristics of Uranus could describe the behavior of the Iranian government.
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Not too long ago, the Feds decided that they wouldn’t be accepting new (the already-submitted applications remained in play) applications for solar power plants. These solar power plants are being proposed in desert areas across the Southwest and West as ways to provide renewable energy. The reason for the halt to new applications? The government…
Photo: jcolman, Creative Commons, Flickr One of the things that bothered me in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the lack of debate over the merits of the invasion.
Photo: Dennis Gerbeckx, Creative Commons, Flickr Environmentalism is becoming a big deal. More and more companies, including Wal-Mart (WMT), are jumping on the environmental bandwagon, straining themselves to make changes so that they can show consumers how environmentally conscious they are.
Photo: davipt, Creative Commons, Flickr A recent article from Reuters states that environmental activists are opening a new frontier in their fight against coal-fired power plants by questioning the use of tax-exempt bonds to help fund such projects.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. – Amendment II of the Constitution’s “Bill of Rights”
Photo: Woodcock Johnson, Creative Commons, Flickr Originally published in the Washington Post and picked up by Forbes, the story reports that 92 percent of Americans believe in God or a higher power – “including one in five of those who call themselves atheists”.
Developing renewable energy alternatives is key to the future.
Photo: Alexsandro Alves, Creative Commons, Flickr The market was selling off today, which hit consumer stocks. Added to that was the fact that the Russell Index Rebalancing that occurred today tends to push down the stocks of companies that have been engaging in buybacks. So what’s a greedy trader to do? Since, I don’t like…
Just when I thought we’d gotten over the silliness of trying to ameliorate our fossil-fuel misbehavior with geoengineering tactics like seeding the oceans with iron particles (to reduce acidification), along comes another wild idea; sending sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to deflect the sun’s rays and cool the earth.
Van Jones, the evangelical founder of Green for All, gave an inspiring sermon-esque talk at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on June 23-24, 2008 addressing "How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems."
Photo: Venkane, Creative Commons, Flickr There are two ways to look at recent economic problems, especially as they affect the stock market, the American economy, and jobs.
At the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on June 23-24, 2008, Robin Chase, the creator of Zipcar, talked about how we can use social technologies to tackle and solve social problems.
There are goods and services consumers can cut back on or cut out altogether, but riding on low tread tires should not be an option. Unfortunately, an article in today’s USA Today reports that some people are doing just that.
The great thing about Arianna Huffington, besides everything, is that she practices what she preaches. She champions opinionated journalism and she herself is an unapologetically opinionated journalist. In fact, she probably would have been proud of that first line because it’s not objective and it doesn’t claim to be. To her, objective journalism is dishonest.
When I told a friend I was going to the Personal Democracy Forum she said, “Whoa.”
“Of course not!” A diminishing majority still clinging to the American dream responds.
Picture dumping ice water on a hobo shivering in the snow, or dumping gasoline on a man’s burning face.
Sometimes history is spelled in large block letters, on the front page of the newspaper. From the New York Times:
Photo: jpchan, Creative Commons, Flickr After easing up a bit, oil prices are back on the rise, and nothing the Saudis say about increased production and a meeting with producers and consumers seems to be stopping the gains. As a result, the broader stock market is down (helped along by additional worries over the continuing credit market…
Call them what you will, alien invaders, invasive species, or just aliens, these ecological-niche invaders are increasingly present in ecosystems on land and in water, and increasingly difficult to eradicate because they always seem to thrive, even when displaced, and frequently feed on – or otherwise eradicate – native populations.