July 2009
27 posts
“the cause of democracy became tainted by association with a president most Arabs...”
– http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14082930&source=most_commented
“total investment in research and development by electric utilities in the United...”
“even at today’s highs, oil is cheaper than imported bottled water, which...”
“If you take only one thing away from this book, please take this: We are not...”
“The production of cement worldwide…releases almost as much CO2 into the...”
“People don’t seem to realize…that it is not like we’re on the...”
“If you look at energy consumption in the world each day and convert it all into...”
“We need the power of its markets, the power of its innovators. We need American...”
“Where is the American dream? What happened? Where has it gone? You are whistled...”
“America’s job…is to make the big front-end investments in the new...”
“No country has a better system for producing a transformational breakthrough...”
“The one natural resource that the world has left in infinite quantity is human...”
“cooking over open fires with inefficient stoves and pots…is responsible...”
“roughly 1.6 billion people - one out of every four people on this planet -...”
“Every two weeks or so China adds as much power - 1 gigawatt of electricity - as...”
“…we forget a fundamental truth: We are the only species in this vast web...”
“Change is the one constant in life, and without diversity - of species,...”
“…one species is now going extinct every twenty minutes, which is a...”
“The heat wave in Europe in July- August 2003 - when it was consistently over 100...”
“Up until 9/11…[America told the Arab world] here’s the deal: Keep...”
“…with oil at $200 a barrel OPEC could potentially buy Bank of America in...”
“Our growing dependence on oil is fueling an ugly global energy scramble that...”
“It is hard for France to maintain a thirty-five-hour workweek when China and...”
““But the metric to watch is not the total number of people on the planet -...”
“The rate of deforestation in the tropics continues at about an acre a...”
“…it became obvious that it’s actually the convergence of global...”
“Our young people are so much more idealistic than we deserve them to...”