Energy Efficiency

Watch the news on TV every night or read the papers about how the share market keeps growing and the economy is growing and you’d think everything is OK
Funny thing is though, with all this continued investment, growth and politicians talking up the ‘recovery’ around the world … world trade actually fell by 12% last year, the biggest [...]

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In another disturbing display of human ignorance, the following story is about how – now that we have upset the balance and natural order of things – we will even further increase the use of energy to counter the over-use of energy …  
Nature, 426-427 (28 January 2010) | doi:10.1038/463426a; Published online 27 January 2010 [...]

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The problem with money is, you can never have enough of it.
As banks around the world showed, Gordon Gecko was their idol and no avenue of extracting $’s from anyone anywhere, from local governments, the retired and pension funds put there for those who – after a life-time’s work – could live a comfortable life. [...]

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The following article by Lester R. Brown – titled ‘Mounting Stresses, Failing States’ – provides a different insight into the nature of corporations that sponsor and direct governments into funneling a given region’s resources to their masters under the guise of helping the people.
Lester starts with one of the world’s recently failed power houses (while [...]

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