Francis M Goodwin 's items

Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong (Rob Hopkins)

Rob Hopkins -- Energy Bulletin/Transition Culture Sept. 4, 2006 -- I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: ...

Ice Core Evidence Of Human Impact On CO2 In Air (Reuters)

(Reuters) -- Air from the oldest ice core confirms human activity has increased the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to levels not seen for hundreds of thousands of years, scient ...

Yield-Curve Recession Indicator Flashes Yellow (Caroline Baum)

Caroline Baum (Bloomberg) -- Sept. 5, 2006 -- Unless the shape of the Treasury yield curve normalizes in the next few months, going from its current negative to a more normal positive slope, the U.S. ...

U.S. Home-Price Gains Slow As Housing Slump Deepens (Kathleen M. Howley)

"The wheels are coming off the housing market" Kathleen M. Howley (Bloomberg) -- Sept. 5, 2006 -- U.S. home-price growth slowed during the second quarter from a year earlier in the sharpest three-mon ...

Tropical Storm Florence forms (AP)

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Florence formed Tuesday in the open Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2006 hurricane season.

The End of Eden (Michael Powell)

James Lovelock Says This Time We've Pushed the Earth Too Far Michael Powell -- Washington Post ST. GILES-ON-THE-HEATH, England -- Sept. 2, 2006 --Through a deep and tangled wood lies a glade so lovel ...

Empire in the Mirror (Manuel Valenzuela)

Empire -- A Tribe on Steroids Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2006 -- Inside the belly of the beast can the harbinger of what is to come be seen, for the internal machinations of the P ...

Inalienable Human Rights Are Not Privileges (Jason Miller)

ACLU Sets the Standard in Struggle for “Liberty and Justice for All” Jason Miller -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2006 -- Ecclesiastes tells us there is "no new thing under the sun." Marsha West’s artic ...

Israel Said To Fear War Crimes Charges (Matti Friedman)

By MATTI FRIEDMAN -- Associated Press Sept. 4, 2006 -- Three weeks after a cease-fire ended Israel's monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel is increasingly concerned that government offic ...

Nightmare Mortgages (Mara Der Hovanesian)

Mara Der Hovanesian -- Business Week Sept. 1, 2006 -- For cash-strapped homeowners, it was a pitch they couldn't refuse: Refinance your mortgage at a bargain rate and cut your payments in half. New h ...

Welcome to world peace (Charles Kurzman & Neil Englehardt)

By Charles Kurzman and Neil Englehart -- Christian Science Monitor CHAPEL HILL, N.C. AND BOWLING GREEN, OHIO -- Aug. 30, 2006 -- World peace was not supposed to look like this. It was supposed to be ...