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Dr. James Hansen, Head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, New York – Rock Star Climate Scientist
Steven P. Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., Cupertino, California – Rock Star Consumer Tech CEO
His Holiness the Dalai Lama (HHDL), head of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Dharamsala, India – Simple Monk, a.k.a. Rock Star [...]

Predicting the future ain't all it's cracked up to be. There's a major gap between perception and reality, between the future we hope for and the one we fear (in the pit of our stomach) may come to pass given what we know.
Take Steven P. Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., arguably America's top technology evangelist [...]

The recent rise in food and commodity prices is one that promises to be long term: Climate change is decreasing the ability to grow food, while the ownership of agricultural commodities by investors and large food companies continues to become more concentrated, limiting the ability to marshal food resources during times of scarcity. (Witness the [...]