by Global Patriot on February 26, 2010
Most of us take electricity for granted, and couldn’t imagine life without it, but 1.6 billion people, nearly 25% of humanity, currently live without access to electricity. In most cases, their only source of light once the sun goes down comes from candles or kerosene lamps. Even during the day, inadequate lighting inside school rooms [...]
by Global Patriot on February 24, 2010
Branding, advertising and philanthropy have been around for centuries, but in the past decade there has been a shift in some quarters of corporate America, a shift that is still focused on branding, but which chooses to support worthwhile causes rather than just producing more marketing material for public consumption. My Brand = Doing Good. [...]
by Global Patriot on February 21, 2010
The heavy use of oil and gas based products to heat our homes and fuel our transportation infrastructure has captured much of the media attention in recent years, but increasingly the spotlight has been directed on the use of coal with respect to the generation of electricity. An article on Planet Earth Fundamentals lead to [...]
by Global Patriot on February 17, 2010
Science has clearly demonstrated that CO2 levels are at their highest point in over 650,000 years, and rising land and ocean temperatures have also been well documented. But what’s the best way to reduce our CO2 emissions? Through government regulation of output, or by implementing a cap-and-trade system that creates a market for carbon credits [...]
by Global Patriot on February 11, 2010
Most people think of the Middle East when the topic of oil comes up, but there are significant petrol deposits that have been exploited in South American for decades. Ecuador is one such example, where Texaco, in partnership with Gulf Oil and Petroecuador, extracted 1.7 billion barrels of oil between 1965 and 1990, leaving a [...]
by Global Patriot on February 6, 2010
Over 900 organizations have been working in Haiti since a massive 7.0 earthquake struck on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. And while supplying food and water was extremely important to the general population, a more immediate need was to provide expert medical attention to the more than 300,000 who were injured in the initial quake, as [...]
