California Beverage Container Recycling Rate Jumps.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-22 May 2008-California Beverage Container Recycling Rate Jumps(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Californians recycled a record 14.7 billion beverage containers in 2007, 1.5 billion more bottles and cans than in 2006, according to the state Department of Conservation (DOC). As a result,...

Company Watch - Qantas Airways.
May 5, 2008 Qantas is raising fares on tickets sold from 9 May, and its CEO Geoff Dixon admitted yesterday that [sup.3]if high fuel prices persist beyond this point it would be of increasing concern.[sup.2] Its domestic fares rise by around 3.5% and international ones by 3%....

Food fright: one in 11 people will need help paying for food.
How much money did your parents spend on breakfast this morning? It was probably a lot more than they paid a year ago. Eggs cost 25 percent more. Milk, fruit, and cereal prices are up too. For people who are earning barely enough money to get by, those price...

Company Watch - Airbus.
Apr 28, 2008 Airbus announced on Tuesday an exceptional price increase for its aircraft, adding $2 million per single-aisle aircraft and $4 million per wide-body on top of a general inflation increase of 2.74 percent. Both Boeing and Airbus have long waiting lists for airplanes, creating an...

Gas prices spinning out of control.
OLEAN -- I watched the much-praised movie "There Will Be Blood" last weekend, the film for which Daniel Day-Lewis won the best-actor Oscar in his darkly compelling depiction of an independent oil man in California around the turn of the 20th century. The main characters were driven...

Oval obtuseness.
We've long known that George W. is not the quickest bunny in the litter, but lately we've also seen his grip on reality go all slippery on him. He's had three recent public eruptions of cluelessness....

Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee.
Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee Deab Ctcib Chelsea Green Publishing Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001 9781833392707 $19.95 www.chelseagreen.com Coffee is more than just another drink: it's about politics, survival, and indigenous people--and Javatrekker...

The 'dash to gas' in the Middle East.
A RAPIDLY GROWING POPULATION and industrialisation across the region require vast quantities of power. Proven natural gas reserves of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are estimated at 81.23 trillion cubic metres, some 45% of the world's total, which would suffice global demand for another 100 years at...

The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt.
Ken Hoeppner. The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. xiv + 308 pp. $29.95. Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the rural history of the Canadian West. Much of their work centers on social and economic history, with subcategories...

Company Watch - Air Canada.
Jan 21, 2008 Not-so-friendly skies need dose of real competition. Robert Milton's time is nearly up. The man who led Air Canada down the rabbit hole of bankruptcy protection, then out of it, will leave when its parent company is wound up later this year. His legacy...