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Chris Devers

Chris Devers posted Malthus & "The Rise of the Rest" | Yesterday

A lot of the things I've written about on here are simply facets of big trends driving the world today. You could punt and say that the big trends are just "global warming", or "peak oil", or "peak food", or "the credit crunch", but even those seem like facets of the broader globalization trends...

TruthTeller

TruthTeller posted Call your Congressperson today about this. | 3 days ago

Here is a link to an online up-to-date database of congressional contact information. Contact the Congress Contact the White House Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices Monday May 12, 2008 By John K. Wiley AP Writer Dale Wetzel in Bismarck, N.D., contributed to this report. (I hope you will...

Marc

Marc posted Good Finance/Stock Blogs | 3 days ago

Finally a good and up-to-date list here... http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/apr2008/pi2008045_506665.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech I especially like Seeking Alpha ((although the quality of the contributors varies wildy)) and B.I.G.

Chris Devers

Chris Devers posted Rising gas prices, rising mass transit usage | 3 days ago

As Paul Mison notes, the gas price surge is finally driving Americans to use more public transit, but not exactly at a breathtaking rate: But … as of 2005, only 4.7 percent of American workers took mass transit to work. So even a 10% surge in mass transit ridership would take only around half a...