NYT's Friedman discusses solutions to world's climate, energy, and population problems (video & transcript)
Politics of drilling, financial bailout heading into elections (video & transcript)
Fukuyama: The Fall of America, Inc.
Ok, Now What?
Atlanta Q&A: Why gasoline supplies went south

California took on energy crisis, now it faces water crisis
FLOW: The Film that Will Change the Way You Think About Water
The New Corporate Threat to Our Water Supplies
Bottled Water at Issue in Great Lakes

If you want a pat answer to what has caused the financial crisis that is reverberating around the world, and now threatening the derivatives market, we’ve got one. Nearly everyone - in the mainstream media and outside it, tells the same story - that the crisis was caused by the unravelling of the housing market, particularly the US housing market. And if you ask what’s behind that, well, we're told there was a bubble. And if you ask what was behind the bursting of the bubble, well...;it is turtles all the way down.
I'm going to suggest that if you peel off the layers of the financial crisis, we’re going to find some pretty basic things...

Of pipelines and the future
Here comes $500 oil - Matt Simmons in Fortune Magazine
Will the price of oil put a brake on globalisation?

U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals
China paper urges new currency order after "tsunami"
Low Crude Prices - Cold War Flashback?
Medvedev: Russia needs to mark its Arctic territory

We drive as we live
It is time for the US to sell its highways?
As Americans fill trains, frustration grows

Compilation of articles not only about global warming but also about species that have become extinct or are an endangered species. Massive.

China chemicals starve Indian pharma
Transport costs could alter world trade
Exports account for one-third of China’s emissions

Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV

Shipping costs start to crimp globalization
Could globalization be going in reverse?
A new paradigm of globalization