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The author predicts economic collapse and talks about preparedness.

The slowing economy is weighing heavily on the minds of consumers and economists as new signs point to more trouble ahead

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had "likely" played a role.

he immutable cyclic nature of investment markets - exacerbated by the IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE demonstrated in the current market mania - force a prudent person to conclude that there will be a secular money change from financial assets to real assets (probably soon).

The first identity cards seen in Britain since the Second World War are to start replacing passports from March 2007 as the Government speeds up controversial plans to issue everyone with a method of proving who they are.

The Conservatives last night attacked claims that an ID card would help tackle terrorism, but David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has told officials that the first cards will be introduced for all foreign nationals in Britain from that date.

verybody has something they regard as being nobody's business but their own. This does not mean that they are up to no good, that they have a scandalous secret buried deep in their closet. Merely that there are details about their lives - from the mundane (their unlisted home telephone number perhaps) to the serious (such as treatment for a hereditary illness) - that they prefer to keep in a protected space marked private. Increasingly, however, our freedom to define a private space for ourselves is being restricted.

The word geothermal comes from the Greek words geo (earth) and therme (heat). So, geothermal energy is heat from within the earth. We can use the steam and hot water produced inside the earth to heat buildings or generate electricity. Geothermal energy is a renewable energy source because the water is replenished by rainfall and the heat is continuously produced inside the earth.

AS A decision is awaited on what would be the largest wind farm in Europe, planned for Lewis, a study has been launched to help bring benefits from renewable energy to the Western Isles without harming the environment.

There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds of millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs - hence the name fossil fuels. The age they were formed is called the Carboniferous Period. It was part of the Paleozoic Era. "Carboniferous" gets its name from carbon, the basic element in coal and other fossil fuels.

We've written before about Honda's production of solar cells, but did you know that Mitsubishi actually ranks as the world's sixth-largest manufacturer of PV cells?

With the incredible response we had to a personal letter from a lawyer discussing in great deal, the failures of the previous Great Depression bubble we can see many parallels emerge to our current potential future. For one, the wanton greed and disregard of financial prudence. The inability to see beyond the current market and realize that history has a mischievous way of sneaking up on those who forget her. There is no longer a debate regarding the once fabled housing bubble.