Word: planets
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...really sure why there's a gorilla, but I'm also not really sure that it matters. What does matter is the fact that Katie Couric (a.k.a. "Shorty") performs a touching solo about the fragility of our planet's ecosystem. Watch out, Bono, there's another socially conscious musician out there, and she wants to save the polar...
...Last month, the news was filled with headlines about a large asteroid which might hit the Earth in 2036. Apophis, as it is called, is 390 meters wide. If it strikes the planet, it would release more than 100,000 times the energy than that of the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. The asteroid was a big story, but buried deep in the press reports about it was the fact that the odds of a collision are 1 in 5,500 based on current information...
...March of the Penguins category of adorable documentary, Disney offered Earth, a cut-down and cuted-up version of the 2006 BBC series Planet Earth. Mixing and milking the week's two do-gooder events - Earth Day and Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Disney fashioned its own Take Your Kid to a Movie Called Earth Day and harvested a very green $4 million on its Wednesday opening. That 24-hr. gesture must have exhausted American moviegoers' impulse to save the planet, for in the next four days, including the weekend, Earth didn't come near the daily...
...like to think. Sure, we occasionally eat trayless lunches in the dining hall or hold events with fancy banners promoting sustainability and speeches by the likes of Al Gore ’69. At times, the rhetoric can even come off as something out of the show Captain Planet: we claim to reduce carbon emissions and conserve energy, all to save the earth. Yet our efforts to be heroic often come up short...
...drillers, hit by the credit crunch, can't finance investments that would increase their production capacity. Many won't invest today even if they have access to financing because depressed prices make projects uneconomic. Indeed, when prices spiked sharply in 2007-08, it wasn't because the planet was running out of natural resources. The problem was that there hadn't been enough investment in many sectors to produce those resources and bring them to market. The recession is making that situation worse. The amount of investment in the oil sector, for example, will likely be 30% lower...