Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Biofuels, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, High Energy Prices, Renewable Energy Breakthroughs, Solar Power Technologies on 08 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Barack Obama Launches New Ad On Energy
Obama made a big speech in Lansing, Michigan, on our energy dependence and need to move away from foreign oil.
Without a doubt, this addiction is one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced - from the gas prices that are wiping out your paychecks and straining businesses...
Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, High Energy Prices, Renewable Energy Breakthroughs on 08 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment
Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence
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...
Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Biofuels, Environment, High Energy Prices, Tipping Point on 05 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment
Euro rises against dollar as oil prices level
Oil executives, from left, ConocoPhillips Executive Vice President John Lowe…
FRANKFURT, Germany — The euro rose against the dollar Friday as oil prices leveled out somewhat from record prices.
The 15-nation euro bought $1.5725 in European morning trading, up from $1.5699 in late New York...
Oil climbs to record above $135
from The Associated Press
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A car drives past a Marathon gas station where regular gasoline is just under $4 a gallon, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, in Cincinnati. Oil prices went past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday. Associated Press © 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand May 22, 2008,...
Al Gore’s updated slide show
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...
