Archive for the 'Environment' Category

Walk the talk!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Today is the final day of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. And all the negotiators, politicians and diplomats involved once more proved the inability of the political world to find solutions before it’s actually too late.
This morning U.S. President Obama arrived in Copenhagen and urged all sides to set aside foolish claims and preconditions to [...]

United Nations Business Conference 2009

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Right now the United Nations Climate Change Change Conference 2009 is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. World leaders, scientists, business leaders, environmentalists, journalists and all sorts of special interest groups have gathered in the Danish capital to discuss climate change, work out  a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol and draft a masterplan to make billions [...]

China’s Environmental Challenge - The True Cost of Growth

Monday, November 16th, 2009

 has become the world’s number one emitter of carbon dioxide after surpassing the United States.
16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world can be found in that country
is the fastest-growing economy in the world  (growing at 9% per year on average for the past 10 years) and accounts for the largest share of [...]

markets not mandates

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Although more and more people seem to understand what enormous potential green energy technologies will have in the future, there is still a considerable opposition to government regulations, incentives and mandates imposed to move the market in the right direction.
It is reasonable to question any attempts by the government to interfere in the market. Usually, [...]

things look pretty bad, don’t they? yet there’s reason to be optimistic

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Yesterday I came  across an article by James Quinn who is convinced that we’re at the beginning of the “Millennial Crisis” which he sees as the fourth turning of a 100-year cycle which started with the American High after World War II. For a detailed explanation of this concept, I recommend you to read his article [...]