Seven Out Of Every 10 New Brazilian Cars Uses Alternate Fuel

Great lecture about overpopulation, global warming, peak oil in 8 parts by professor at University in Colorado.

Global warming at the extremes of the earth:
Habitats and cultures everywhere react to climate's rapid changes

An online presentaion about global warming with sound and video. The authors believe that global warming is a reality.

Jamie Wilson finds that all personal data can be had - for a modest consideration. We meet in a small and anonymous Italian restaurant just off Bond Street in central London. At a table in the corner, tucked away behind plastic plants, we talk business. "Target?" I hand him an embossed business card with a name, a company, and two telephone numbers printed on it. He places it on the table in front of him, takes a sip from a glass of beer and turns towards me. "So," he asks slowly. "What product do you want?"

Simon Davies examines the most unruly of all our human rights. On a hot summer day in 2001, Derek Smith (we'll call him that to preserve his privacy), unexpectedly discovered a closed circuit television (CCTV) camera scrutinising him from a neighbour's roof. Smith was relaxing at the time by the side of his backyard pool, watching over his two young daughters as they played in the shallow water. He gazed with growing horror at the device, which in future months he described as provoking a sense of "violation, threat, powerlessness".

Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.

The flat plate collector, or solar panel, is relatively easy to construct and should present few problems to the average handyman. If you can install a sink unit, plumb in a washing machine, make a bookcase, then this project should not be too difficult. An entire novice plumber may need a little help. The panel can be constructed without the aid of special tools, specialist materials, or 'secret' processes. A hacksaw, wood saw, drill, hammer, screwdriver, nails, screws, paintbrush, file and a tape measure are the tools you will need most.

RECENTLY, I spent eight days in the Nevada desert with 47,000-some-odd other folks at the utterly unique annual event called Burning Man. This was my third time there, and it was more than a third larger, and quite a bit more taxing, than I remembered from my last attendance in 2000. For those who haven't heard of Burning Man, it's . . . well, it's hard to describe. In fact there are probably as many descriptions as there are attendees.

The New York Times reports on a new trend that could further spur the rapidly growing wind turbine industry. It represents a way to get more value out of wind farms.

It seems that in a similar manner to corporate branding of stadiums, like Staples Center in Los Angeles, there are corporations that want to buy the naming rights to wind farms.

It is becoming commonplace to hear negative news regarding the housing market. Dollar signs get thrown around in conversations with no real practical sense for the public to grasp the magnitude of the problem. HSBC for example announced that they are pumping $35 billion into their ailing SIVs to avoid a fire sale of assets. You must ask yourself, why are large institutions so frightened about putting assets onto the market?

Before we begin our next hair-raiser, I notice a lot of people scratching their heads as global stock markets decline in the face of a "strong global economy." What you are seeing is the "pricing in" of approximately $2 trillion of lost homeowner equity in the U.S. (soon to be $3 trillion, then $4 trillion and so on). And it's only a matter of time before that equity squeeze wreaks havoc across the economic board and takes down the stock market and commodities, too.

These pictures are pretty scarey, showing a 100 meter rise all over the entire planet.

This map illustrates the local consequences of global warming.

FINGERPRINTS: Direct manifestations of a widespread and long-term trend toward warmer global temperatures

Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather
Ocean warming, sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Glaciers melting
Arctic and Antarctic warming

HARBINGERS: Events that foreshadow the types of impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming.

Spreading disease
Earlier spring arrival
Plant and animal range shifts and population changes