Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis, is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the growing U.S. water crisis.
Reinsurance Industry: The Next Bailout?
Over the last three decades, weather disasters in North America have increased 500%, causing over 30,000 fatalities and $1 trillion in damages.
Coal and Natural Gas Consumption Grow
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. “Spurred mainly by rising demand in China and India, coal’s share in the global primary energy mix reached 28% in 2011—-its highest point since the International Energy Agency began keeping statistics in 1971.” Global […]
Bankers Gone Wild In Europe
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. It will be difficult to undo the damage from Europe’s cavalier repudiation of the principle of deposit insurance as part of the EU and IMF-approved bailout of Cyprus’ bloated, high-flying banking sector. Cyprus has […]
President Obama Proposes Energy Security Trust
President Obama has laudably proposed putting $2 billion from federal oil and gas revenues over the next 10 years into a new Energy Security Trust to fund research on new technologies like better batteries and hydrogen fuel cells that would help get cars and trucks “off oil for good.”
Citizens Gain Say On Executive Pay
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. Swiss voters approved “some of the world’s toughest limits on executive pay” in a referendum this month that will give shareholders an annual binding vote on executive pay and prohibit certain kinds of bonuses. […]
Academy President Addresses MIT Enterprise Forum on the Future of Hydrogen Power
Listen to the full conversation about the critical need to move away from carbon-based fuels and the latest advancements in the field of Hydrogen power.
“Mainstream Media Meltdown!”
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. An excellent Salon article, “Mainstream media meltdown!” by Robert McChesney explores the accelerating decline of journalism, how the internet magnifies the tension between journalism and commercialism, and the threat this poses to democracy. The […]
“Unburnable Carbon” Stokes Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign
A student-led divestment campaign to push universities to rid their endowments of fossil fuel stocks has spread to more than 250 college campuses. Government pension funds, religious communities and other investors are joining the fossil fuel divestment movement. The campaign is changing the politics of climate change as surely as the student movement to force […]
Climate Change is Here, Now
Arctic sea ice is about half of what it was in 2000. In September 2012, it shrank to its smallest size ever, down about 18% from its previous low in 2007.
Abundance: A World of Possibility
Diamandis and Kotler provide a fascinating romp through a wide range of technologies that are improving at exponential rates—in computing, energy, water, health care, digital manufacturing, and many other areas.
Water and Turning Points in World History
Momentous innovations in water history only become clear in hindsight, after they have meandered and permeated through society’s many layers…