Last week, the New York Times’ DotEarth blog published excerpts of a conversation between Richard Branson, airline tycoon and space-travel enthusiast, and Alan Murry of the Wall Street Journal. Branson is a self-made billionaire with a flare for the exotic, but he also seems to have a relatively keen awareness of energy issues as well.
Some [...]
Filed under: News on October 19th, 2009 @ 11:16 am
Tagged with: algae fuel, clean fuel, climate change, Copenhagen, emissions, entrepreneur, isobutanol, Obama, politics, Richard Branson, Virgin
With the tense debate raging over how best to overhaul the healthcare coverage infrastructure, the White House has launched an offensive today against what it refers to as “viral whisper campaigns” designed to harbor dissent and negativity against the healthcare agenda.
Having taken many lessons from last year’s presidential campaign, the administration will be using the [...]
Filed under: News on August 5th, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Tagged with: bipartisanship, communication, David Axelrod, health, healthcare, insurance, internet, leaders, Obama, PR offensive, President Obama, progress, Rick Scott, Robert Gibbs, strategies, strategy, success, US
Everyone sensed that the moment President Obama was elected President, we were witnessing a sea change in U.S. politics. It wasn’t only that he was the first African-American to be elected to the highest office in a country; he used terms like “renewable energy”, “equal rights”, and “diplomacy”, terms that had seldom been uttered in [...]
Filed under: News on July 24th, 2009 @ 7:31 am
Tagged with: bipartisanship, cutbacks, economy, f-22, fiscal restraint, Obama, recovery, Robert Gates, US
After the pharmaceutical industry pledged to forgo nearly $80 billion in revenue over the next ten years, the hospital industry just announced last week that it too would follow suit in finding ways to cut healthcare costs. Largely seen as a gesture of goodwill towards the overhaul of the healthcare system, this announcement has been [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 14th, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: AHA, G.D.P., healthcare, Obama
With the global economy finally beginning to turn around, this year’s G-8 taxed the collective psyche of the world leaders. The broad scope and ambition of this year’s conference weighed on President Obama, who was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article as saying “the one thing I look forward to is fewer summit meetings.” [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.