Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
This talk is quite long…but quite good. Take a bit of your day and be inspired…

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Already in free fall, the price of oil could soon push much lower as the effects of a global recession take hold.
Crude fell $3.12, or 6.7%, to settle at $43.67 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday. Many oil-industry insiders and traders now say prices could slump much lower, into the $30s, [...]

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Sitting here before sunup with the french doors open in the kitchen…Bird calls and air cool enough to keep the AC from kicking on (at least for an hour or so) wafting through with the aroma of the mornings coffee. The temperature is almost 70 again heading for the mid 80’s by afternoon. I miss [...]

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Traffic signals at about 1,200 Houston area intersections were not yet working Tuesday but should all have at least a flashing red light by the end of next week, said Mike Marcotte, the city’s director of public works and engineering.
“I’ve been amazed with the courtesy our drivers have been showing,” Marcotte said. “Our biggest issue [...]

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After the storm, once you realize you’ve lived through another, your awareness of your surroundings is contracted. You begin by wandering around just your own little space surrounding your home…Checking for damage, fixing the immediate needs if possible.
Then you begin to expand your awareness to your neighbors. First you check out those immediately around you, [...]

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We got our power and phones back last night. The neighbors are still dark. I don’t know exactly what the it is the government learned from Katrina, but living through their opinion of a well run after disaster relief effort I am unimpressed.
Ike plowed through here like a farmer with an old mule…Trees, power poles, [...]

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I was sitting here checking out some WP plugins when I noticed the time. Poured my first cup of the morning muse and turned on “Sunday Morning“. I was late for the preamble but caught most of the first story. Even Sunday Morning is on the sugar story and what caught my attention as I [...]

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On Easter Sunday the Iraq prognosis could be better.
A political breakthrough in Washington already happened, Hamre (John J. Hamre, a former deputy defense secretary) said, when November’s elections turned into a referendum on the war. “The American people have been waiting to hear how we were going to win in Iraq, and they never heard [...]

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