Outstanding American human rights lawyer and former Attorney General of the United States of America, Ramsey Clark: impeach Bush; "not a political question. Impeachment is a constitutional duty." Key quote from Message from Ramsey Clark (June 10, 2008):
Dennis Kucinich, in the finest moral traditions of America, has moved for impeachment of George W. Bush. Americans must ask how many Americans will have died avoidably in 8 years of Bush mis-rule.
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The author of "More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want" writes that we can tackle a population-induced environmental crisis by empowering women.
A global alliance of human rights activists, environmentalists and ethically run small enterprises is needed to save the planet from self-destruction, says Susan George, chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
World military spending grew 45 percent in the past decade, with the United States accounting for nearly half of all expenditures, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Monday.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - OPEC President Chakib Khelil said on Monday there was a speculative bubble in the oil markets, which but for a weak dollar and geopolitical problems should be trading at around $70 a barrel.
Saudi Arabia will call for a summit between oil producing countries and consumer states to discuss soaring energy prices, Information and Culture Minister Iyad Madani said Monday.
Levels of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere rose by about 0.5% between 2006 and 2007 after having remained stable for nearly 10 years - due to industry, agriculture, deforestation or tundra melt? .
The US Senate has killed vital U.S. legislation for a cap-and-trade system to limit climate-warming carbon emissions and aimed at cutting total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050.
A joint communiqué by the Group of Eight ministers, also signed by China, India and South Korea, stopped short of the tough language demanded by Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister.
Rising North Sea oil production was a significant factor in keeping oil prices under control in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
There are quite a few universities that are currently pushing the envelope in Ecological Economics, Energy Economics and developing some very insightful research (Dr. Hall's EROEI paper is a good example of students and prof. working together in these issues).
Painful though it is, this oil shock will eventually spur huge change. Beware the hunt for scapegoats
A good many years ago, I read George Soros' "The Alchemy of Finance", which introduced me to the concept of reflexivity, which in a nutshell is when observers of a phenomenon can't help but impact the phenomenon itself via their 'observing', thus changing the original underlying …