Wall Street makes a comeback
Some stories makes so much sense when you read them that you wonder why you didn’t see them coming. One such story appeared recently in the New York Times — Wall St. Hiring in Anticipation of an Economic Recovery.
Archive for July 16th, 2010
Renewables & efficiency - July 16
-Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050
-Report sees need for 500 additional biofuels plants
-No link between wind turbines and health: report
-Residents reject wind farm health findings
-Locally Owned Wind Power: Quaint it Ain’t
Economics - July 16
-Historian warns of sudden collapse of American ‘empire’
-The greatest con since 1776
-We scare people off by talking about ‘degrowth’
Peak oil - July 16
- FT: Wall St and peak oil
- BP and the peak: delusions of oil grandeur persist
- ASPO-USA vs Lovins: Optimism, harsh realism, and blind spots — 10 years later
- The Nation: Kicking the oil habit
ODAC Newsletter - July 16
BP has reported that its latest attempt to cap the leak at its Macondo well has stopped the flow of oil into the ocean. The news has so far been greeted with cautious optimism while integrity testing on the cap continues. The development comes at the end of another torrid week for BP…
Revolution: the right kind and the wrong kind
Lately I’ve been encountering articles and news stories touting the need for revolution in the wake of a gansterized U.S. financial system and a government that has itself become a criminal enterprise. I sense that many bloggers and their readers are salivating with anticipation that someone or something will light the fuse of a revolutionary cannon that will eviscerate the present system and replace it with something more just and humane.