David O Williams from The Colorado Independent says BP may in the coming months have to look to its lucrative natural gas fields in southwestern Colorado to recoup the massive financial hit it’s taking in the wake of the worst oil spill in American history.
According to Williams a BP America spokeswoman this week told the [...]

KEVIN DAMASKIE believes that now the 2010 Games are over, we can really celebrate what makes Whistler so successful — stunning natural assets and biodiversity.
For the rest of 2010 we get to examine Whistler’s nature through the International Year of Biodiversity, the other 2010 celebration. In support of Enviro-Fest, this Saturday (June 5), the Association [...]

Here is the Abstract from an article published in Society & Natural Resources, Volume 8, Issue 1 January 1995 , pages 49 – 56. The author is Paul D. Gottlieb.
“Growth management is the branch of urban planning concerned with the timing and sequencing of land development and the policies designed to mitigate the more [...]

AFP journalist Madeleine Coorey writes from Sydney that Australia’s proposed new tax on mining profits has prompted a fierce struggle between the industry and the government for the extraordinary riches of the Asia-led commodities boom, analysts said.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plans to impose a 40 percent levy on the so-called “super profits” of resources firms was [...]

From the Institute of Knowledge
It has been known that we are our thoughts, we are literally what we think of ourselves. We are what we conform to. This might possibly be the most important concept to understand.
When one reads the ancient Chinese text “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu, in paragraph/ section 23 he says [...]

An interesting artcile was posted recently on a Reuters blog where they tell us that Germany is understandably proud of its renewable energy sector — wind and solar power supply more than 15 percent of the country’s electricity. Its  Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has fuelled its rapid growth over the past decade and been copied by [...]