Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• Al Gore lays out his energy and climate plan

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum In an article in the New York Times, titled “The Climate for Change,” Al Gore lays out his climate and energy plan, which he says is needed “to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization …

• Educating Consumers to Encourage Green Growth

  In these tough economical times, it is easy for consumers who had genuinely been trying to greenify their lifestyles to fall back on their old habits. The reason for this is simple—those products are cheaper for the time being. However, …

• Video: Al Gore Interviewed by Digg Founder Kevin Rose

  Hosted by Digg’s Kevin Rose, viewers have a rare opportunity to hear from former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. All interview questions have been selected by the Digg and Current.com communities In the interview Al Gore …

• Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles

  Photo credit: World Economic Forum During a meeting, with focus on development and transfer of technology that can help tackle climate change, in Beijing with 76 nations attending the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that “developed countries have a responsibility …

• Canada scores badly in environmental ranking

  Photo credit: Яick Harris A new environmental study ranks Canada as one of the worst developed countries in the world. The study has been done by the Conference Board of Canada, an independent and not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. …

• Green Quote of the Week: Barack Obama

  Photo credit: patrick dentler Newsweek has a good quote from Barack Obama when he was preparing for one of the debates: The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, …

• Change will come as USA elects Barack Obama

  The people have spoken. And they have clearly chosen Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America. Hopefully the election outcome will result in USA moving away from its current destructive climate and environmental politics and …

• McCain embraces dirty coal, says he is a “coal booster”

  Photo credit: Photo Mojo John McCain, the Republican Presidential candidate, who failed to mention climate change in his acceptance speech, who picked a climate change denier as his running mate, who won’t regulate greenhouse gases, whose energy plan is mainly …

• As President, McCain will not regulate greenhouse gases

  Photo credit: soggydan Joseph Romm, from the Climate Progress blog, writes on Huffington Post that John McCain won’t regulate greenhouse gas emissions if he and Sarah Palin get elected. Romm writes that McCain does not support mandatory government control of …

• “The solution to the climate crisis will also help us solve the economic crisis”

  Photo credit: bunnicula Al Gore writes that the next President of USA “must take immediate steps to deal with” climate change: In one week Americans will go to the polls and elect our next President. Whoever wins, (and I certainly …