September 17, 2008

• Hurricane Hanna Helps Out in Our EcoDriving Video

  The remnants of Hurricane Hanna arrived on the shores of South West England last weekend. (…)

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 16, 2008

• Mikhail Gorbachev Comments on the War in Georgia

  A couple of days ago Mikhail Gorbachev, last head of state of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, wrote an article for the Washington Post. Mr. (…)

August 13, 2008

• The Ghost of Stalin Stalks the Streets of Gori

  Josef Stalin was born Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia on December 18th 1878.
  Yesterday a "ceasefire" was announced in the Georgian war, but the killing continued in Gori. (…)

August 10, 2008

• Thousands of Innocents Died Yesterday - So It Goes

  Vladimir Putin left China yesterday, and arrived in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia:

  Mr. Putin said he:
  Wanted to discuss the influx of refugees. (…)

August 9, 2008

• Beijing Olympic Games Open - Smog Closes In

  The spectacular opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games took place yesterday. The four-hour event was choreographed by celebrated Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. (…)

• Solzhenitsyn Dies - Putin Invades Georgia

  We didn't intend that this would be our headline for today, but shit happens.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn died last week. So it goes.
  War has broken out on the border between East and West…. (…)

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. (…)

August 4, 2008

• A Resource Based Economy

  Whilst the Group of Eight and the World Trade Organization chatter away to little effect, and Bill Gates ponders how to tweak capitalism so that the "one billion people live on less than a dollar a day" can benefit from it, you may be wondering if there isn't a better way to organize society. (…)

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 10, 2008

• Oil Billionaire Pushes Wind Power

  Texas oil billionaire T. (…)