An economic assessment from APEC INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP
Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market’s 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a double-dip downturn.
The major problem is that lawmakers and regulators are setting up investors into believing that commercial real estate (CRE) losses are being effectively [...]

Washington (CNN) — President Obama met with the Dalai Lama — the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader — at the White House on Thursday despite strong objections from Chinese government officials.

The meeting has the potential to further complicate Sino-U.S. tensions, which have been rising in recent months. China has warned it would damage Beijing’s ties to [...]

As US President Barack Obama gets ready to meet the Dalai Lama later today, news comes that China has been vigorously selling US government debt.
China dumped $US34.2 billion of Treasuries Dec 2009, its fastest rate of selling in a decade. At the end of 2009, China’s holdings of US government debt stood at $US755.4 billion. This [...]

Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact.
His decision is not expected to further derail U.N.-led climate talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, divided over [...]

By Bob Williamson
As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’
‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’
‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’
‘Economic & Environmental Sustainability [...]

The first ever national survey of pollution in China shows a nation that has paid for its economic growth in environmental pollution.
Measuring nearly six million sources of pollution in China, experts say that in 2007 alone the nation dumped 30.3 million metric tons of pollutants into its water. Doubling official government figures, these measurements included [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: I have long said that Australia while claiming to have around 1.46% of total global emissions of CO2 exports its contribution proudly for the emissions of 30% of total world export coal. This hypocrisy seems now to be gaining some other popular consensus and discussion. I am pleased to finally see [...]

AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India.
The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference last [...]

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When viewing this video presentation explaining the simple math of the Exponential Function, there are a couple of observations that the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation would [...]