Stephen Petranek reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world end? What was the global politic in the past decades that cost to us chance to be named from our adherents with words like lame?
Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild? This 2002 video is just our quick Sunday informational what we all could not forget. You can download this video in high resolution (480p) here.
The Global Environment and Energy Correspondent for The Economist takes an up-close look at global warming, the auto industry, and government. Written for the intelligent layperson, Vaitheeswaran’s book “Power to the People” is by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available. Vijay V. is a global correspondent for The Economist. He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992 and two years later, he opened its first bureau in that region in Mexico City. He wrote about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world until 1997, when he returned to the editorial headquarters in London. As the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business, technology and global warming (see this) involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. Check the Pulizter Prize winning Author of The Prizelatest interview here.
Some amazing news from this day is that The African Development Bank Group is planning to invest US$814 million in biodiversity conservation and natural resources management in Central Africa’s Congo Basin. This great news are coming from the group’s president, who announced it today. African Development Bank Group President mr. Donald Kaberuka made the pledge at a two day conference where the sustainable management of Congo Basin forest ecosystems was large discussed topic. To help combat these threats, a component on institutional support for the executive secretariat of the Central Africa Forests Commission, or COMIFAC, will be presented to the Bank Group’s board of directors later this year, Kaberuka said.
