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Spitting in the eye of mainstream education Three no-frills charter schools in Oakland mock liberal orthodoxy, teach strictly to the test -- and produce some of the state's top scores. By Mitchell Landsberg May 31, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter31-2009may31,0,6518091,full.story Reporting from Oakland -- Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. .Politically inconvenient truth about electric cars
Politically inconvenient truth about electric cars By Paul Betts and Song Jung-a Published: December 11 2008 19:24 | Last updated: December 11 2008 19:24 President Nicolas Sarkozy would dearly like to end France’s rotating presidency of the European Union on a high note by brokering this week a deal on a grand European response to global warming and energy efficiency. The ultimate plan is to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent with member states at the same time drawing their future energy needs from clean renewable sources by the same percentage amount. Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that the automobile industry has found itself at the heart of the climate change debate.What You Can Do to Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Excerpted from An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore (Rodale, 2006)
When considering a problem as vast as global warming, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless. But we need to resist that response, because this crisis will get resolved only if we as individuals take responsibility. By educating ourselves and others, by doing our part to minimize our use and waste of resources, by becoming more politically active and demanding change — in these ways and many others, each of us can make a difference.
Trimming The Fat: Forty Ways To Reduce Your Monthly Required Spending 53
Hi pulled this off of simple dollar.com Trimming The Fat: Forty Ways To Reduce Your Monthly Required Spending 53 comments June 24, 2007 @ 9:00 am - Written by Trent Categories: Planning, Bad Spending Habits Bookmarks: del.icio.us, reddit One of the biggest challenges in personal finance is figuring out ways to reduce the regular bills that we all face each month. These continuous regular expenses simply fill up our budget, leaving us less money to invest for the future - and also less money to spend on things that we enjoy. The best approach for trimming required spending is to simply walk through all of the required expenses and look for ways to lower that number.
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