Wednesday-Night

October 28, 2007
Newsletter Update on GGG Activities
Underlining “Wed-Nighters are welcome”, Kimon Valaskakis advises that:
“On the recommendation of our sponsors, given the disruptions caused by the Greek Forest Fires of September 2007, the ATHENS-3 Conference has been rescheduled from November 28th, 2007 to April 2-5, 2008. The conference will once again […]

The “Grow Home” is an answer to the high cost of housing in many countries. It is a project that will fit into any community. The exterior facades can be vinyl siding, wood, brick, stucco, stone etc.
The home is made to be built in groups of 4, 6, 8 and larger blocks. The economy of […]

October 26
By DAVID BROOKS
I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants.
The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop solitude and serenity in the meditative trance, but I, grasshopper, have achieved the oneness with the universe that is known as […]

October 27, 2007
For years, most of the important initiatives to deal with global warming have been undertaken at the state and local level, while Washington has largely dithered. This is still true. The hope, as always, is that pressure from below will jolt Washington from its slumber.
Last week, Gov. Eliot Spitzer issued strong regulations aimed […]

 
26 oct 2007
L’industrie nucléaire canadienne devrait jouer un rôle plus actif pour résoudre les problèmes liés à l’entreposage des déchets nucléaires sous la terre, selon un environnementaliste américain.
Le directeur du programme nucléaire du Conseil américain pour la défense des ressources naturelles, Thomas Cochran, croit que le Canada, comme tout pays producteur d’énergie nucléaire, devrait développer […]

Government legislation, funding needed to expand geological storage of carbon dioxide
October 26, 2007
Capturing carbon dioxide before it is released into the atmosphere and injecting it deep into the ground might not be the “silver bullet” solution to climate change, but it will have to be a big part of a multi-pronged “silver buckshot” solution if […]

Each person requires a third more land for his or her needs than the planet can supply, says the study. Photograph: Corbis
25 October 2007
Save the planet? It’s now or never, warns landmark UN report
NAIROBI (AFP) — Humanity is changing Earth’s climate so fast and devouring resources so voraciously that it is poised to bequeath a […]

October 25, 2007
An international conference on long-term strategies to combat climate change got under way last night at the Palais des congrès, bringing together 400 business leaders, scientists and politicians from 13 countries.
The two-day conference, called Climate 2050, Technology and Policy Solutions, will focus on the formidable challenge of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by […]

24 October 2007
Lately, we have spent a lot of time agonizing over the political scene in this country. So much so, that it appears to us we have been neglecting many international news items and issues, so this Wednesday, appropriately United Nations Day , we propose to look at some of (it is hardly […]

By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mohmad Noman, a 34-year-old member of the Afghan Border Police (ABP), leads his drug-sniffing dog Eirofi around the exterior of a tanker-trailer truck in a courtyard of the Border Police Headquarters in Kabul. Using a series of hisses while motioning with his hand, […]