September 30, 2008

• T. Boone Pickens on Lack of Leadership and Oil Prices

  In an interview on CNBC this morning Texas oil billionaire and wind energy advocate T. Boone Pickens blamed "lack of leadership" from George W. (…)

September 29, 2008

• The Financial Crisis Goes Global - European Banks Need a Bail-Out Too

  Another day dawns, and the list of failed banks grows ever longer.  Congress has renamed the Bail-Out as The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.  The House has just rejected the latest draft by 228 votes to 205. (…)

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 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 12, 2008

• The Hokkaido G8 Summit - More Word Games

  This week's issue of the Economist magazine contains their verdict on the G8 summit in Japan - They came, they jawed, they failed to conquer. (…)