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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

One was that environmental concerns would grow in importance, and the other was that gas prices would go up over time. And they won on both bets. This has gone from being a niche business for Toyota to being a centerpiece of its growth efforts. And it's a perfect example of what can happen when there's a public interest and a business interest in protecting the environment. They coincide in a marketplace opportunity that can make a difference for all of us." Again, I don't want to sugarcoat, either. We're definitely seeing business moving in the right direction.

Travel Virgin Airlines With soaring gas prices, all of the airlines have to make adjustments wherever possible to improve fuel efficiency. So what makes Virgin stand out in this inherently emissions conscious category? Virgin is the first airline to get serious about alternative fuel sources. In November 2005, Virgin Chairman Richard Branson revealed, "We are going to start building cellulosic ethanol plants (to make) fuel that is derived from the waste product of the plant.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Mwai Kibaki We have mentioned earlier that during the late 70s and early 80s, government was bogged down with poor economics, high gas prices, and bad karma with the electorate. The time was ripe for Reaganomics. For those suffering from diabetes, the door was opened for the Greedy Bastards at the Top to take over. Pharmaceutical corporations, chemical corporations, manufacturing corporations, and financial corporations proceeded to take complete advantage of the patients, the workers, the consumers.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Estill's Biodiesel Power weaves a basic education in biofuels together with a series of anecdotes from his years entrenched in the biodiesel community, which has been moving swiftly into the public purview in the light of skyrocketing gas prices and fear of peak oil. Green Car Congress http://www.greencarcongress.com Mike Millikin's Green Car Congress is the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek. as Bright Green Consumerism Opposite, left: Hydrogen refueling station.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

The period (roughly 1980—2001) during which these international treaties relaxing trade barriers were made—the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) —coincided with a steep and persistent drop in world oil and gas prices that occurred precisely because the oil crises of the 1970s had stimulated so much frantic drilling and extraction that a twenty-year oil glut ensued. The glut, in turn, allowed world leaders to forget that the global ism they were engineering depended wholly on nonrenewable fossil fuels and the fragile political arrangements that allowed their distribution.

During most of the 1980s and 1990s, gas prices at the pump were lower in constant dollars than at any other time in history. It was the former-hippie boomer yuppies, after all, who started the SUV craze and bought the McMansions way off in the outermost suburbs.

But the collective imagination of the public cannot process the notion of a nongrowth economy, even though the limits to growth are visible all around us in everything from the paved-over suburban landscapes, to the steeply rising gas prices, to played out aquifers, to the death of the Atlantic cod fishery. We are not capable of conceiving another economic way. We are hostages to our own system.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

I find it amazing that when a local gas station raises gas prices by 20 percent following some national disaster (like a hurricane), people go crazy with accusations of profiteering. Yet when drug companies mark up their drugs 30,000 percent or more over the cost of ingredients, the public seems more than happy to go along with it, repeating the propaganda line, "They need that money to fund tomorrow's cures!" Or, maybe, they just need it to pay massive CEO salaries and keep investors happy. The drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than research, after all.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Finally, according to a report in Electricity Journal, May 1996, when Jimmy Carter became president in 1977, he launched a complex legislative program to phase in deregulation of natural gas prices over the next decade. Much of the complexity of the program was eliminated in the fall of 1992 when Congress passed the Comprehensive Energy Policy Act, which concluded that producers, consumers and the U.S. economy will all benefit from deregulated competition markets" (Petroleum Independent, October 1992). It took 16 years but the natural gas industry finally got the deregulation it wanted.

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