The Simpler Way perspective on the global predicament
Ted Trainer Energy Bulletin The dominant view, almost never questioned, is that major global problems can be solved within and by the kind of society…
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What Will Fracking Do to Your Food Supply?
The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be next. Barry Estabrook Fracking Pollution GiltTaste There’s a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated…
Lost Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and Settlements Discovered by Satellites
Gizah Pyramids Wikimedia Image Daily Mail Indiana Jones found success with little more than a bullwhip and a fedora. These days however, if you want…
Report: Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests
Dees Illustration Bill Quigley BuzzFlash Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. …
US Senate blocks bill targeting oil firm subsidies
© AFP/Getty Images/File David Paul Morris AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate defeated a bill taking aim at some $2 billion in annual subsidies…
Exxon CEO Estimates Oil Should Cost $60-70 Per Barrel (Video)
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Obama announces new oil drilling
Obama has previously vowed to cut US oil imports © AFP/File Mira Oberman AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama, under pressure over high gasoline…
US House votes to boost oil, gas drilling
Sun sets behind two under construction offshore oil platform rigs in Port Fourchon © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amid a political war…
Solar Power Breakthrough Could Render Photovoltaic Cells Obsolete
Wiki Commons Image PhysOrg A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional…
More Drivers Running Out Of Gas
CBS Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — With gas prices pushing $4 a gallon, a lot of people are trying to stretch their dollar at the gas…
Tesla Coils: Unleash the Aether
Nikola Tesla’s most significant contribution was not AC power, radio, or the induction motor, but what we call the Tesla Coil – a tool which…
$6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker
CNBC A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as…
US approves first offshore wind farm
A view of a wind farm in Velva, North Dakota © AFP/File Karen Bleier AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US government on Tuesday approved a…
Saudis Slash Oil Output; Say Market Oversupplied
OPEC Countries/Wikimedia image CNBC/Reuters Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to…