Yesterday, the U.N. and the World Blank announced plans for a task force to address skyrocketing food prices worldwide (Forbes.com).
The food price shock now roiling world markets is destabilizing governments, igniting street riots and threatening to send a new wave of hunger rippling through the world’s poorest nations. It is outpacing even the Soviet grain [...]

Remember wind energy in 1975? No? Well, read this National Geographic article and refresh your memory.

Read this press release and see if you don’t start humming the Jetsons theme song to yourself: Future Transportation: Powered by Electricity”. Pretty standard title, right? You’re thinking, Of course the future will be powered by electricity. What kind might this piece focus on–some new kind of solar, holographic maybe? No? How about…MAGNET POWER!

With the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol just under way, European Commission (EC) ministers met recently to nail down post-2012 climate policies. The so-called 20-20-20 benchmark—reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% below 1990 levels, and producing 20% of all electricity from renewable sources, both by 2020—remains a cornerstone of EC efforts. As for [...]

The British Government produced this climate challenge video for its citizens, I find it very interesting not so much for the content, but for the fact that the government put it out. As I watched the video (many of the same themes you may have seen from the film “An Inconvenient Truth”) I [...]

News: New York Times
A New York Times article about rising energy prices and increased scarcity shows us that we have a pressing issue on all of our hands.