Energizing America (Sierra Club: Fri, 29 Dec) {Editor's Note} In the following pages, Sierra explores what our nation can do to meet the challenge of global warming. "Everything hinges on our ability to somehow gracefully make the jump from fossil fuel to ... something else," says author Bill McKibben in our opening story. But to what?
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Should we still be in Iraq? (Ridgecrest Daily Independent: Fri, 29 Dec) With everything that's been going on in our country, should we still be trying to save Iraq or should we be concentrating on saving our selves?
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal: Fri, 29 Dec) Carol L. Seligmann, who served on the Ithaca Youth Bureau Advisory Board, Community Police Board and the Board of the Fire Commissioners, died Wednesday at her Ithaca home. She was 61.
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Options Trader: Tuesday Wrapup (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Thu, 28 Dec) Phil Davis submits: What a way to end the year! Dow 12,510! If only this weren't a low volume week I'd be really psyched right now, but we'll certainly take what we can get and we got a lot today...
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World at tipping point; oil peak arrives (Online Journal: Wed, 27 Dec) The American empire is an energy junkie in its death throes, punching for new veins and final fixes, knowing that the supplies of its drug of choice - cheap oil - are virtually depleted.
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Peak Oil Passnotes: 2006 - A Year of Confusion (Resource Investor: Fri, 29 Dec) RI predicted an oil price of $61 on Christmas Day back when crude was lapping around the $75 mark. Amazingly ... or should that be, of course, we were right. It was one of the few predictions in 2006 that actually came true.
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