September 25, 2008

• An Irony of the Financial Crisis - Action on Poverty Looks Utterly Achievable

  Just over a week ago I found myself once again on EasyJet flight EZY6167 heading from Bristol to Amsterdam.  I asked the head of the cabin crew if he knew Dawn, who operated the camera on one of our previous internet videos.  He said he did.  I showed him one of our "Water Connects Us" leaflets, and I asked him if it would be OK if I handed some out to his passengers.  He said that would be fine as long as I didn't get in the way of the cabin crew as they went about their duties. (…)

August 20, 2008

• T. Boone Pickens Comments on the War in Georgia

  Over the last few days T. Boone Pickens has held meetings with both John McCain and Barack Obama.
  Yesterday Mr. Pickens was interviewed by Neil Cavuto of Fox News about those talks. (…)

August 5, 2008

• Barack Obama - New Energy for America?

  Barack Obama gave a speech on Monday in Lansing Michigan, an area very familiar with the decline in the US automobile industry. (…)

July 18, 2008

• Al Gore calls for Carbon Free Electricity by 2018

  In a speech at Constitution Hall in Washington yesterday former Vice President Al Gore put forward his new vision of how the climate change crisis has deteriorated to the point that:
  The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. (…)

July 15, 2008

• Bush Pushes Oil Rigs off California - Arnie Disagrees.

  Yesterday afternoon United States President George W. Bush lifted the executive ban on drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf, which was signed by the first President Bush in 1990. (…)

June 26, 2008

• High Fuel Prices - Get Used To It!

  The latest edition of New Scientist magazine just landed on my desk. The cover shows a barrel of oil morphed into a bomb and proclaims "Oil Shock - You ain't seen nothing yet". (…)

June 23, 2008

• Gordon Brown Asks OPEC to Increase Oil Production

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia over the weekend. He was the only western leader to make the trip. According to The Times Mr. (…)

June 17, 2008

• McCain and Obama on High Fuel Prices

  Both presidential candidates commented today on the current high fuel prices, although for some strange reason neither of them suggested EcoDriving as part of the solution to the problem! (…)