What world shall our children inherit?

Presidential Elections 2008: Electoral Map

Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:20 PM EDT ()

Pollster.com provides state-by-state summaries that show a tilt of near landmark proportion toward Obama. Running cursor over each state provides polling data.

election, politics, mccain, obama

Arctic 'has 90bn barrels of oil'

Seeded on Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:35 PM EDT (BBC News)

If true, this amounts to about 3 years of global supply and translates into about $12 trillion at current market prices -- and that is just the oil. This is big and deserves watching.

business, oil, arctic, peak-oil

Woes Afflicting Mortgage Giants Raise Loan Rates

Seeded on Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:54 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Gets worser and worser. Perfect storm, except that oil is down and dollar up. Volatile. Now try to get a mortgage or a home improvement loan. Risk up, so rates follow. Ripples ripple ripples.

business, economy, freddie-mac, mortgages, fannie-mae, finance

How McCain Can Win The Electoral College

Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:01 PM EDT

Several articles and seeds presume that Obama has clinched the election. I beg to differ. Here's how McCain can win: He takes Florida, which he now leads, then only one among Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Do the math.

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campaign, election, politics, mccain, obama

New U.S. Government Report Predicts Dire Consequences Of Warming

Seeded on Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:39 AM EDT (Greenwire)

U.S. Climate Science Program releases final report on July 17, 2008, on human impacts expected from global warming. The report states that the expected damage to USA will be "widespread and significant."

global-warming, environment, science, climate-change

Living on the Ice Shelf: Humanity's Meltdown, By Mike Davis

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 8:28 PM EDT (TomDispatch)

Mike Davis, author of Post Victorian Holocausts and The Ecology of Fear, offers up a sobering analysis of an epochal crisis that spans geology to food.

oil, collapse, climate-change, world-news, globalization, peak-oil, end-game

Watchdog cuts oil supply forecast

Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 10:54 AM EDT (BBC News)

The International Energy Agency cut forecasts of supply growth for the next five years.While consumption would rise by an average of 1.6% a year - or 1.5 million bpd on average - until 2013, supply growth would drop to 1 million bpd from 2010. What is striking is the disconnect …

business, energy, economy, peak-oil

Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into '09

Seeded on Wed Jul 2, 2008 8:35 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Gloomy: Joblessness has accelerated, and employers have slashed working hours even for those on their payrolls, shrinking the size of paychecks just as workers need them the most.

business

Global Warming. Global Action. Global Future.

Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:41 PM EDT ()

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, has announced a web site dedicated to global warming remedies. It's mantra is simply put: 350, as in 350 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere, specified by Jim Hanson of NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies as the prudent limit.

global-warming, environment, science, climate-change, bill-mckibben

Anxious in America

Seeded on Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:57 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, provides a disquieting perspective on the alleged decline of the USA. A sample: My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — not terminal, not irreversible, but in decline.

politics, friedman, decline-usa

President George Bush is our Captain Joseph Hazelwood

Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

President George Bush: Captain Joseph Hazelwood; Valdez: USA. ============================ The discipline of Haiku (5-7-5 syllables) requires concision, as does the syllogism contained. So I rest my case.

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oil, politics, exxonmobil, president-george-bush

Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs

Seeded on Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:18 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The business model of the suburbs is under scrutiny as gas prices remain high. Peak Oil sinks the 'burbs and, alas, the infrastructure of the American Dream.

energy, oil, politics, suburbs

End of the Open Road: The Land of the Perpetual Frontier Meets $4-a-Gallon Gas

Seeded on Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:14 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, provides a historical context by which to interpret $4 per gallon gasoline.

energy, oil, politics

The Great American Float

Seeded on Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:41 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The New York Times runs down possible VP choices, focusing on the venerable former Senator from Georgia, military expert, and moderate, Sam Nunn.

election, politics, mccain, obama

To Lower the Price of Oil, Restore Confidence in the Dollar

Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:16 AM EDT

The focus on the commodity, the barrel of oil, neglects the currency that denominates that commodity, the dollar. The best way to lower the price of oil is to restore confidence in the value of the eroding dollar.

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business, dollar, energy, oil, energy-politics, energy-economic

A Green Coal Baron?

Seeded on Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:59 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Duke Power leads the way toward an enlightened coal power and its CEO, Jim Rogers, is a maverick. The many energy debates crawling around the Vine seem to neglect King Coal.

business, energy, coal, sustainability, energy-politics

Thanks for pardoning the felon Libby

Tue Jul 3, 2007 2:35 AM EDT

Below is my response to White House re Libby affair, to comments@whitehouse.gov. Please compose and forward your own assessment. Here is mine:

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politics, libby, pardon

A Just and Sustainable World is Possible

Wed Mar 7, 2007 1:25 AM EST

Global warming, although essential to the story, will not capture front burner attention in the coming discussion of the global environment. The real story is the relentless march of sustainability, which will define an age upon whose cusp we now stand.

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energy, economy, environment, world-news, globalization, sustainability

US economy suddenly appears vulnerable - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 11:35 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

US economy suddenly appears vulnerable WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economic expansion suddenly seems more fragile than thought just weeks earlier, after a sharp downward revision to the past quarter's growth and renewed fears about the slump in real estate.

business, economy, fed, housing, real-estate, economy-off

Bill Clinton: Five questions for the 21st Century

Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 10:21 PM EST (The Manhattan Mercury (Kansas))

Bill Clinton's speech in Manhattan, Kansas, provides his interpretation of where the USA and world stand today and where we are going. Vintage Bill Clinton. Some excerpts: Health Care

energy, economy, clinton, agriculture, policy, us-news

The U.S. Oil Policy Simulation

Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 9:15 PM EST (Forio Business Simulations)

Make U.S. oil policy using this simulation by writing a speech on energy. Clever, tight, and interesting. Try it!

energy, oil, education, energy-policy, energy-conservation, energy-simulation

Impeach President Bush? The Results May Surprise You!

Seeded on Sat Feb 3, 2007 11:49 PM EST (msnbc.com)

A poll conducted by MSNBC asks: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? When I last viewed the site, at 11:37 PM EST on 2/3/2007, 87% of 418,763 respondents voted in the affirmative. Are you surprised? What do you think?

bush, politics, impeachment

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The Edge of the Abyss

Seeded on Sat Feb 3, 2007 8:10 PM EST (Common Dreams)

Eric Herter conjectures on consequences of U.S. attack on Iran. Speculative chatter? Some samples: “Well, the answer is that like Hitler, Bush must continue to roll the dice. He is so far out on a limb now that he must go for it all or he loses everything.

bush, iran, war, world-news, mid-east

The Times of Oman: carbon market takes step closer to reality

Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:54 PM EST

Catch this: The Times of Oman, in carbon market takes step closer to reality, writes:NEW YORK –– Carbon market developers hope a potential billion-dollar U.S.

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energy, environment, us-news, environmental-policy, energy-policy, carbon-markets

Big business joins greens to pressure Bush on climate

Seeded on Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:15 PM EST (Telegraph)

Blue-chips have a tangible interest in a viable U.S. energy and global warming policy, and they are coming to the table. Watch this issue develop over next few weeks.

energy, global-warming, climate-change, us-news, environmental-policy, energy-policy, big-business

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If I had to chose from a small group of people who I would want on my island commune, profwork would be high on the list. Profwork would be invaluable for helping to form the nascent political atmosphere of the commune and to draft versions of our Rules For Living Together documents.

We need you prof, stick with us.

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Thanks, Benno. After an illness, I have the time to return to Newsvine. I always gain from your insight. Thanks for your kind words.

BTW, the rough-and-tumble of NV is less arid that academe. I enjoy the give and take.
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I suspect I was probably indoctrinated with some different politics than profwork ;) But that doesn't matter as I think we share a love for the academic quest that far transcends such silly understandings. And at the same time profwork seems to be able to focus at the more important questions. All in all, welcome profwork. Please continue where you started adding quality material to Newsvine and thereby help save it from the millions of 'net pitfalls.
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