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1) Key Energy Technologies for Booming World Economies - Modern economies are unthinkable without plentiful and affordable energy supplies. The double threat of global warming and climate change makes it mandatory to look for new, non-polluting energy sources. When searching for future energy supplies we mus...

2) HB 1660: A Model For America - My name is Kate Loving Shenk of Nursing Career Transformation and a Staff Registered Nurse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As a Health Care Professional, I see people who are between jobs, who are in retirement, or starting a new business, or who want to go...

3) Petroleum, the Triple Threat to World Economies - World economies are facing a triple threat. Oil reserves will be close to depletion by the year 2050. Damages from climate changes caused by escalating greenhouse gas emissions will become substantial. Rising transportation and food costs will slow ec...

4) 10 Patriotic Quotes to Celebrate Sandra Day O'Connor's Birthday - Sandra Day O'Connor's birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than with some wonderful patriotic quotes? She is one of the most impressive women to ever meet the public eye. Voted one of the most powerful women in t...

5) The Power to Feed the World? A Tale of Sustainable Development, BioEngineering, and Citizen Activism - Copyright (c) 2008 Jackson Kern Even set against the standards established by today's behemoths of international trade and commerce, The Monsanto Company is a veritable giant. Since its founding in 1901, Monsanto has advanced through various embodi...

6) March Madness on Capitol Hill (And I Don't Mean Basketball) - Well, I've had quite an exciting week. First of all, the team here at the Advocacy Associates empire organized hundreds of Congressional meetings for two different Washington, DC fly-ins, both of which occurred on March 11th. That wouldn't be n...

7) Misogyny Is Alive, But Never Well - Gender and race in Politics: Is it real? Is it important? Is it a distraction? Is it a way to divide and separate people from important discourse and meaningful discussion? Or when someone blurts out a statement that is innocent enough, and then is twi...

8) Needed: Curious Leaders - Lee Iacocca has just published a book entitled Where have all the Leaders Gone? In it he claims that the most important quality of a good leader is possessing a sense of Curiosity. A good leader is someone who reads widely, who thinks beyond his own co...

9) The A-Z of Global Warming: Biofuels - Copyright (c) 2008 Simon Rosser This second article from The A-Z of Global Warming deals with biofuels, which will undoubtedly be a phrase that will be heard a lot more often in the future, but what are they?, where do they come from?, and what is their...

10) What is the Outlook for the Availability of Fossil Fuels? - I think this article is comparable to the people who slow down on the highway to look at an automobile accident. You are not involved in the accident, yet you surely are curious about what is happening. At the present time we can sense the presence of a ...

11) The A-Z of Global Warming: The Amazon - Copyright (c) 2008 Simon Rosser Introduction This article is the first in a series of articles which will take the reader on an alphabetic journey on global warming, commencing with A for Amazon. The phrase global warming is a term that has been in co...

12) Sustainable Development: The Role of Coal - Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Lafleche The debate over the future of America's energy policy is heating up, and it is liable to reach temperatures of near-combustion amidst the politics of this explosive election season. One industry that has long bee...

13) The False Promise Of Ethanol - Ethanol is being promoted as one of the solutions for controlling global warming. US Congress has followed this reasoning and has provided a subsidy for ethanol production in the amount of $0.51 per gallon. This subsidy created a minor boom in corn gro...

14) Can the USA Be Fossil Fuels Independent by 2050? - This question is becoming a key cornerstone in our prediction for the health and prosperity of the future United States of America. Experts are beginning to predict that our worldwide sources for crude oil will have peaked in production by 2050 at the la...

15) Should a global climate agreement hold the US to a higher environmental standard than the rest of th - Yes, the US should be held to a higher environmental standard than the rest of the world. We have benefited from a superior economic growth powered by consumption of a major share of the world's fossil fuels, causing a major share of the world'...

16) Can Sustainable Development Be Clean AND cheap? A Promising 'Carbon Credits' Case Study - Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Lafleche Must the costs of clean development necessarily be prohibitive for developing nations? Let's take a closer look at exactly how this is called into question. There is a common belief that the most efficient way t...

17) Problems for a Big Country - The Ukraine is not a country that receives so much news coverage, or much attention, but it is a country that I grew to love and admire by accident. It is just one of the many FSU countries struggling to find its way in the world, but it is in trouble an...

18) Barack Obama a Candidate for Christians - First let me begin this article by stating that I understand the sentiment to have an African-American president. Although you couldn't tell it from my photo my grandfather William Johnson was an African American, he married a white woman in the 194...

19) 12 George Washington Quotes to Remember His Birthday - Why are George Washington quotes so remarkable? Once in a rare while a great man is born - a man who changes the world for the better and leaves his mark for posterity. George Washington was one of these men and his words are words to live by. As we reme...

20) Geothermal Generated Electricity - Is It a Viable Energy Option? - It is increasingly being recognized that the world has to replace fossil fuels with alternate fuels. This recognition is being driven by three premises: First: Fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas, are accelerating in cost as they are consumed in ev...

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