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Back in February, White House environmental advisor Van Jones discussed a “Cash for Clunkers” program on BigThink as an effective tool for promoting clean energy. The plan, which provides drivers […]

Often when we hear people arguing about the point of sex, it is defenders of sex education who fight moralist crusaders that want to save it for marriage and procreation. […]

As many of last week’s events made clear, the future of nuclearism will depend, in many ways, on just how the international community is able to forge a balance between […]

The pursuit of “energy security” has brought us to the brink. It is directly responsible for numerous wars, big and small; for unprecedented environmental degradation; for global financial imbalances and meltdowns; for growing income disparities; and for ubiquitous unsustainable development.

Democrats who benefit most from trial lawyer donations are getting set to pass a bill to give lawyers $1.6 Billion tax break. Wow, wish I could get the kind of payback!

In a summer marking the 40th anniversary of the single most historic concert ever, Woodstock has been revered, evolving from a muddy live music happening to a lynchpin for social […]

Greenhouses are a mini example of the phenomena called ‘the greenhouse effect.’ Unfortunately in the years following the Industrial Revolution gases causing air pollution have gotten trapped in earth’s atmosphere and they are Heating Things Up.

What did we really accomplish with the Digital TV initiative?

The dirtiest corporations in existence characterize themselves as ‘green’ and ‘environmentally friendly.’ Be Discerning! Young journalists and filmmakers force us to visually accept the reality of all the hype.

10 Billion Beats is a non-commercial Global Intention Event that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention around the world. Starting in Central Kansas, it will follow the sun through the time zones at 7:00 PM on Sept. 18, 2009. (Sept. 19 as it crosses the dateline)

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Now come Mr. Barack Obama, he listens to Winston Churchill’s word Jaw Jaw is better than war war. However, he and his untested brightest and smartest guys want to change everything, ENERGY, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE AND FINISH TWO WARS. AND BAILED OUT THE MAY BE 21st CENTRY THE GREATEST RECESSION. rnrnrnI know Mr. McNamara was gone. What about the untested brightest and smartest guys? Are they right this time?!rnrnrnrnrn

With the travel industry adjusting to today’s modestly priced, environmentally conscious mandate, it’s time to consider new concepts for hotels. Thinking outside the box, Morris Architects took home a prize […]

Japan may be one of the world leaders in developing renewable energy, but the country’s green tech sector seems to be either making too much noise, or too little. Gas-electric hybrids […]

With traditional manufacturing jobs evaporating, green is becoming the color du jour around the necks of American workers. Every candidate promised the creation of green collar jobs in last year’s […]

Some considerations on corruption that emerged on some blogging at Ecademy. Andy at GOOGLE at https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22andres+agostini%22&aq=&oq=&aqi=&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=-Pw1cEIpNGU

One of the bad things about the Obama administration is that human rights have taken a backseat to more pressing concerns abroad. A case in point was Joseph Biden’s recent […]

Recessions are the best time to take chances, make that leap, and truly reinvent your business. When times are good it is all too easy to keep doing what “works”. […]

1. Authentic Self is achievable through the psychological examination of subconscious paradigms. 2. Perpetuated societal norms are the cause of subconscious paradigms. 3. Psychological examination of an individual does not adress over all causation. 4. Addressing the overall causation is preferable to treating individual cases.

The New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Group recently carried out a study of recession survival strategies. Their findings should be of interest to business owners everywhere. They examined several multinationals […]

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]

Preter-Natural Leadership Success Tenets By Andres Agostini (Andy)

Lieutenant Raymond Foster has graciously invited me to make some comments on leadership. I highly appreciated Raymond’s gesture and sophistication in dealing with the increasingly relevant subject. I attended a “LIVE” forum as Raymond was being interviewed I found his words of wisdom very original and useful.

Obama and Medvedev’s entente at the G-20 produced the most fruitful conversation in years on how to reduce the 24,000 nuclear weapons siloed in the US and Russia. Nuclear energy, […]

Biofuels are the poster children of such good intentions gone terribly awry. Rather than retard global warming, scientists (such as Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Matt Struebig from Queen Mary, University of London, and Emily Fitzherbert from the Zoological Society of London and University of East Anglia) are now warning that they may enhance and accelerate it by encouraging deforestation in the tropics.

Campaigning has officially stopped one day before Iran’s presidential election. Voters will go to the polls tomorrow to choose from four official candidates who are (deep breath)… Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the […]

There were two big takeaways from last week’s Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise. One was that Al Gore is a very busy man these days. The other is that […]

Daniel Dennett Investigates Energy Innovation.

Human hearing picks up only a limited range of frequencies, and that range diminishes as we age and our ears deteriorate—just think of the high-frequency cellphone rings that high school […]

The so-called Instinct Diet attacks the two primary drivers of failure in dieting: deprivation and hunger.