Archive for the ‘Business & Politics’ Category

• Why Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States of America

  The time has come to decide who you will vote for in the 2008 U.S. election. Before I start it should be perfectly clear for everyone that reads this that I am not an American citizen and thus have no …

• UN says that the current financial crisis could hasten green growth

  Yvo de Boer, who heads the Bonn-based U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, is a bit more optimistic about the current financial crisis than George Monbiot is. Yvo de Boer says that the current financial crisis could “hasten” countries efforts to create …

• Sarah Palin can’t name a single man-made cause to climate change

  Photo credit: masonvotes Sarah Palin, Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency and running mate with John McCain, ignores basic climate science by claiming that climate change is not man-made and that weather patterns are to be blamed instead. And during …

• Canada re-elects climate wrecker Stephen Harper

  As most of the political spotlight is on the presidential election in USA you might have missed the election in Canada last week. Unfortunately not much changed there. Stephen Harper and his Conservative party remained in power, the Liberals lost …

• “There is no need to spend a penny of public money on greening the motor industry”

  photo credit: Nrbelex George Monbiot says that the motor industry has long sabotaged eco-innovations and that they are now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions. The green subsidy for car makers, Monbiot says, is just a disguised corporate bail-out. …

• Blog Action Day: You can’t solve climate change or poverty without dealing with the other

  Al Gore have said, during the annual World Economic Forum Meeting in 2008, that you can’t solve climate change or poverty in the developing world “without dealing with the other”: “Earlier this year, Bono and I spoke about the intersection …

• Blog Action Day: The Memo from Lawrence Summers

  On December 12, 1991, Lawrence Summers, the chief economist for the World Bank, wrote an internal memo that was leaked to the British publication the Economist on February 8, 1992. DATE: December 12, 1991 TO: Distribution FR: Lawrence H. Summers …

• Blog Action Day: Poverty and Environment

  During the last few years societies familiarise quickly with environmental issues. The First and the Second World residents get gradually informed about problems such as climate change and the greenhouse effect, that take place due to human activity. Wealthy people …

• ABC Refuses To Run Ad That Attacks Big Oil

  ABC, the American Broadcasting Company, seems to be bought up by big oil and the coal industry as they refuse to run the Repower America ad from the We Campaign. The ad attacks the dirty coal and oil industry while …

• Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

  The former unknown Alaskan Governor who is now running mate with John McCain and, maybe, soon even Vice President of the USA has been awarded the 2008 Rubber Dodo Award. It is the Center for Biological Diversity that this year …