The hazards of bailing out Car 1.0

Image source: greenerist.com There is a brilliant piece by Thomas Friedman in the IHT today on the US auto bail-out and what Joseph Schumpeter once referred to as the process of creative destruction. He writes about the Better Place electric car charging system and how this is set to replace the petroleum-based model. The best [...]

Too little too late for GM?

Image source: BBC news A couple of my bloggerbuddies have recently taken up the cause of pictorially documenting the irresponsible behaviour of Singapore drivers. It is fortunate I don’t drive here as I think they would have a field day following me around the place. Driving one-handed and blocking the thoroughfare are minor offences, however, [...]

Friedman goes green

Image source: http://www.olin.wustl.edu For someone who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and is generally regarded as an apologist for globalisation and laissez-faire capitalism, it was with dropped jaw that I read Thomas L. Friedman‘s op-ed, Geo-Greening by Example, in the New York Times last week where he not only criticises Bush’s energy policy, but [...]