By David Morris, AlterNet
Posted on August 2, 2008, Printed on August 3, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/93609/
Al Gore’s heroic speech challenging us to make our electrical system 100 percent renewable promised it would simultaneously address three major crises: the weak economy, catastrophic climate change and the dire national security problems inherent in our dependence on imported oil.
He [...]

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How to solve the global food crisis

By Kaushik Basu
Professor of economics, Cornell University

Even small price rises can hit the poor hard

The world economy has many problems but none more pressing than what is happening to food prices.
There have been food riots in Haiti, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Indonesia and several other [...]

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In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. [...]

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“Exotic Propulsion Systems and the Global Economy”(a.k.a. “What Happens When We Reach Peak Oil?”)The technology contained in this website
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Economy
Bernanke Urges Banks to Help Borrowers More
by Jim Zarroli
All Things Considered, March 4, 2008 · Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a roomful of bankers Tuesday that they need to do more to help troubled borrowers. Banks have been giving borrowers who are about to default more time to make payments and are renegotiating [...]

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