Despite obstacles, including an estimated $350 trillion price tag, a University of Arizona astronomer wants to save the earth from global warming by firing trillions of mirrors ito the stratosphere […]
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The environmentalist’s horror image of an oil spill is usually the affliction to wildlife—birds and fish coated in black crude, struggling to move or to breathe. But a study by […]
Big Think spoke with Robert Kaplan, former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and current professor at Harvard Business School, about regulating hedge funds, the issue of bonuses, and why he’s happy […]
Speaking today at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice President Joe Biden told the world that the U.S. would no longer be a swaggering soloist throwing its muscle around […]
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement yesterday of a non-plan of action on a new banking bailout invited not only immediate criticism, but also its first counter-proposal. Hot off the presses, […]
Wall Street bonuses have been captured under the media’s microscope since the the recession began in earnest, and most objective perspectives have called the billions in performance-based pay superfluous remuneration. […]
More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]
Expository essay describing the power of bacteria as it relates to the damage it can do to human beings.
Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values.
It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.
Van Jones on the future of clean energy.
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George Soros says energy investments will fuel America’s next boom.
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This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?
Christine Todd Whitman makes the case for nuclear.
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Scott Kleeb forsees a solution to many problems in reducing our dependency on foreign oil.
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Michael Bloomberg is the founder of the financial media company Bloomberg LLC and was elected the mayor of New York City in 2001. In his plan of action for the next president’s first 100 days, Bloomberg advises against a “legislative run,” and encourages action on all fronts—from immigration to education to energy. The economy, and renewed confidence in it, must be at the top of the agenda. In the long term, Bloomberg wants to see a system that takes advantage of bipartisan relationships and respects the intelligence of the American people.
The deserts of the world could provide enough electricity for vast populous regions of the world and do it in a clean and sustainable way—at least until the sun explodes […]
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“Clean and Safe Energy” is an organization dedicated to bringing Americans the facts about nuclear energy.
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From the credit crunch to the energy crisis, American car manufacturers must weather what Taylor calls a “perfect storm.”
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Oil will not solve our energy problems, but the government should listen to the states that would consider drilling from their coasts.
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Cliff Schorer says energy is a hot area right now.
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If agriculture is going to help solve the energy crunch, Scott Kleeb says we need keep farming affordable for farmers.
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Europe’s reliance on Russian energy is a major consideration, says James Goldgeier.
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It’s time for the U.S. to get serious about alternative energy.
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If we’re to focus on speculation, Reid knows the first place to look.
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Not much of substance has been said on either side, says Hackett.
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Bryce talks about the holy grail: super batteries.
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