Archive for January, 2009
Highest Anti-Semitism Rates In 2 Decades
Highest Anti-Semitism Rates In 2 Decades The number of anti-Semitic attacks around the world during Israel's three-week military operation against Hamas in Gaza was up more than 300 percent compared to the same period last year, reaching a two-decade high, according to [Read More]
Saving energy has a payoff (The News & Observer)
Did you put off getting those new double-pane thermal windows or an energy efficient hot water heater or furnace? From a tax perspective, your procrastination could save you money. [Read More]
Bandar Imam Petrochem Exports at $1b (Zawya)
01 February 2009 Managing Director of Bandar Imam Petrochemical Company Reza Amiri said more than 1.9 million tons of petrochemicals worth $1443 million have been exported in the last 10 months. [Read More]
Wind energy groups seeking economic stimulus aid (The Bismarck Tribune)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wind power advocates are pushing for billions in tax incentives and grants in the $819 billion recovery package moving through Congress, hoping to offset an economic slowdown affecting the industry. [Read More]
Dana Gas Annual Revenues Grow to AED 1.14 billion (Zawya)
Long-term assets grow by 13% with total assets of AED 10.8 billion. [Read More]
PRAIRIE VOICES: Geothermal power (Grand Forks Herald)
UND researcher says 'pipe dream' could become a reality within 10 to 15 years, severing our dependence on coal. [Read More]
David Molnar advises against trading stocks (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Download file The $50,000 investment I distributed among five stocks at the start of the year isn't a bankroll I struggled to save. It's not even real money. Still, I feel drawn to the possibility that what choices I... [Read More]
Robert Fishman talks about funding solar (San Francisco Chronicle)
Title: President, chairman and CEO. Company: Ausra Inc., Palo Alto; develops solar power plants. Q: Banks have pretty much stopped lending, and renewable power projects are having a hard time getting financing. How do we break the logjam? A: It's going to... [Read More]
My love is my rock in the long, low, weary land.
My love is my rock in the long, low, weary land. I have tried to put the last year into words. Consider this a memoir if only for legal purposes. With that said, this is a true sequence of events. It is also directly transcribed from a journal in order of date. It is also [Read More]
In Westchester, Learning to Save the Planet by Starting at Home (New York Times)
Bedford, N.Y., is among a number of smaller communities across the country that have joined cities in trying to reduce their carbon footprints, motivated by concerns over global warming. [Read More]
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/31/2009
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/31/2009 Thereâs industrial unrest in Britain â wildcat strikes because of jobs that are going to foreign workers. Ugly anti-Semitic incidents have occurred in Iceland and the UK, among other places. And the unpleasant words between [Read More]
The Vatican, The SSPX and the Repeal of the Excommunications – A Roundup
The Vatican, The SSPX and the Repeal of the Excommunications - A Roundup Statements 01-24-09: Decree of the Congregation for Bishops Card. Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops:... His Holiness Benedict XVI - paternally sensitive to the spiritual [Read More]
Links for the Week — Saturday January 31, 2009
Links for the Week -- Saturday January 31, 2009 BLOG Links for the Week -- Saturday January 31, 2009 T his world is fucked. Maybe it's the endless brutal winter getting to me. Maybe it's my resultant lack of exercise. Maybe it's the total absurdity of the belief that Obama [Read More]
Bangkok Post : Ethanol plans axed on low use (Bangkok Post – Thailand’s English news)
More than half of the 47 licensees for ethanol production are unlikely to get their production plans off the ground in light of a steep fall in oil prices, a senior Energy Ministry official said yesterday. [Read More]
Mineral County wind farm project advancing (Cumberland Times-News)
US Wind Force says its subsidiary, Pinnacle Wind Force LLC, is moving forward with plans to construct a 23-trubine wind farm in Mineral County. [Read More]
