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Weak Diluted and Convoluted Better Than Nothing – The Waxman-Markey Bill

Democrats in the senate have decided to put the climate change measure recently passed in the house on the back burner until September citing the Supreme Court nominee hearing and health care. Although the bill is weak, diluted and convoluted with concessions for various industries and subsidies for industries like nuclear energy and carbon capture, [...]

Ann Foltz Visits Our Task

Last week Our Task was lucky enough to be visited by the incredibly wise and gracious Ann Foltz; in addition to being a supporter of Our Task, Ms. Foltz is a previous employee of the World Bank, a self-proclaimed world traveler and in the 1960’s she spent nine years working at a radio station in [...]

Thomas Friedman asks the Vital Question

In his New York Times OpEd of Sunday 7 March, THOMAS FRIEDMAN writes: Let’s … ask a radical but vital question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply [...]