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...
Staving off Famine
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...
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...
UFO How-To: The Encyclopedic Series
“Exotic Propulsion Systems and the Global Economy”(a.k.a. “What Happens When We Reach Peak Oil?”)The technology contained in this website and book series can repair the global economy by opening the next great economic expansion. ...
Homeowners have zero equity/collateral to bargain for loans
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...