Over the last few years we’ve seen a number of stories cropping up from all over the world of governments – both local and national – paying students to attend school. These programs have covered elementary, secondary, and tertiary schooling, and are proliferating. Currently there are a number of counties and cities in the US [...]

President-elect Obama has made it clear that he intends to tackle energy security and climate change. He’ll focus on investments in renewable energy, creation of millions of jobs aimed at improving infrastructure (including energy efficiency improvements) … and creation of “an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050″. While there [...]