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Fossil Fuel-based Travel and the Hospitality Industry's Impact on Global Warming
By Nathan Brown · 16 years ago
The stresses of daily life are growing increasingly pervasive and it seems harder and harder to find time for yourself and your family. Doesn't a week-long trip to the tropics sound refreshing? I'll say! Unfortunately, ...
The Last King Of Spain?
By Henri Boulanger · 16 years ago
A young King Juan Carlos helped steer Spain from a dictatorship to a modern democracy after he came to the throne some 32 years ago, and his achievements include defending the fledgling democracy in 1981 ...
Calvin Coolidge: The "Villiage" That Raised Him
By Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
Calvin Coolidge’s grandfather, Calvin Galusha Coolidge, felt so strongly that tilling the soil was "the only real, respectable way to get a living" (15), and hoping to keep Calvin from going into trade as his ...
Social-Political Sustainability: The Human Element
By Jackson Kern · 16 years ago
It is commonly accepted that the project of sustainable development is conceptually composed of three constituent parts. These parts are (1) environmental sustainability, (2) economic sustainability, and (3) social-political sustainability. The United Nations 2005 World ...
Book Review: 'Real Change' by Newt Gingrich. Read it.
By C. Read · 16 years ago
Gingrich is probably the smartest man in US politics and political activism – at least as far as real policies based on real world demands are concerned. His latest book, 'Real Change' is a synthesis ...
Why So Corrupt?
By John Barell · 16 years ago
Recently The New York Times (3/16/08) reported that up to one third of the oil supplies from an Iraqi oil refinery in Baiji are being stolen and sold on the black market. The reporter, Richard ...
Clinton Pushes for Delegate Switch
By Cesar Aguado · 16 years ago
Earlier this week, Clinton was vocal in pointing out the ability for delegates, even those who had already pledged their support to a particular candidate, to make a switch from one candidate to another. The ...
Politics in the Media: Reading Between the Lines
By Aunice Reed · 16 years ago
A vast amount of information is being thrown at the American people at break neck speeds these days, with the election race being at the top of the agenda. One minute we're hearing about this ...
Could You Answer Some Questions
By Mary Ann Boulette · 16 years ago
Senator Obama, I thought I would write and ask a few questions about some things that just don't seem right to me. First, how did you manage to get Gov Richardson to give you his ...
What Have You Done?
By Mary Ann Boulette · 16 years ago
This Easter Sunday only days after the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the War in Iraq, we reached another milestone - the 4,000th American was killed. Four thousand - which means that 4,000 mothers, ...
Key Energy Technologies for Booming World Economies
By Klaus H Hemsath · 16 years ago
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 ...
Petroleum, the Triple Threat to World Economies
By Klaus H Hemsath · 16 years ago
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 ...
Calvin Coolidge Man of the Great Generation
By Dr. Bernard Fleury · 16 years ago
Introduction The heroes of the Greatest Generation were made well known to us through Tom Brokaw’s best selling book. These were the children of the Great Generation who lived and shaped our nation from the ...
March Madness on Capitol Hill (And I Don't Mean Basketball)
By Stephanie Vance · 16 years ago
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 ...
Misogyny--Alive And (Never) Well?
By Kate Loving Shenk · 16 years ago
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 ...
Big Bizarre of Narcotics
By Babu Gautam · 16 years ago
Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, barring some minor exemptions here and there based on the historical and cultural compulsions of some nations, are banned across the globe. All the nations, including those harboring the perpetrators, ...
Needed: Curious Leaders
By John Barell · 16 years ago
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 ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. PRESIDENT - Jean Pierre Boyer
By Edrys Erisnor · 16 years ago
Jean-Pierre Boyer (February 28, 1776 – July 9, 1850), Haïtian soldier and President of Haïti (1818-1843), born a free mulatto in Port-au-Prince, and educated in France. He fought with Toussaint L'Ouverture and then joined André ...
The A-Z of Global Warming: Biofuels
By Simon Rosser · 16 years ago
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 over the coming years, but what are they?, where ...
What is the Outlook for the Availability of Fossil Fuels?
By Paul Calhoun · 16 years ago
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 ...