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The presidential candidates will soon receive a briefing from our nation's Intelligence Community with the upcoming 'Global Trends 2025', an overview of international factors that will shape our world and our place in it. Dr. Thomas Fingar, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, recently gave a preview of the key findings. It is not a cheery picture.

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SLAMMIN' post on why Americans can't handle free bike programs.

The latest hot topic in the carbon industry seems to be that of carbon capture and storage. The US EPA issued a proposal to formulate technical criteria for building, running and monitoring wells. This may lead to commercialization of the CCS technology, which is used to store CO2 deep under the ground. The proposal came out under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which safeguards ground-based water resources from contamination by any external, injection-related actions.

From an open heart to an open mind... about foreign oil dependence and not only that.

Men's Health Magazine ranks top 100 major U.S cities by its most eco-friendly consumers

According to a Harris survey, more than 90% of Americans are recycling, but over 1/3rd of the entire U.S. population hasn't changed their lifestyle because they "did not know what to do" in order to be more green.

A new study set out to gain an in-depth understanding of people's relationship to being green. They found that more than 84% believe "it is a moral obligation" to care for the environment and 86 percent already participate in at least one green activity. The research also found that a main barrier to doing more "green" actions is people's trepidation that such activities may associate them with extreme political or environmental viewpoints.

It's estimated that 97 billion e-mails whisk through cyberspace every day. And according to GreenPrint Technologies, despite 20th century predictions of a paperless office, Americans use enough sheets every year to build a 10-foot-high wall that would stretch from New York to Tokyo and beyond.

Finally. Grameen America holds a fundamental belief: by unleashing the spirit of enterprise and supplying the proper tools and methods to let it thrive, microfinance will flourish in the United States as it has across the globe. Grameen America is not about handouts. We do not subscribe to leaps of faith. We make investments in people with the drive and ambition to do great things.

Global warming is melting the Arctic at an alarming pace. This summer the Arctic ice cover was the smallest ever recorded. As a result, a host of countries are seeking to drill for the oil and gas once protected by ice.
And the more oil and gas we burn, the faster the Arctic melts and the closer our planet comes to catastrophic climate change.

Sign the petition at http://www.greenpeace.org/handsoffthearctic