Is the Clean – teach boom becoming another parameter for perpetuating a North-South Divide? How do emerging economies make a quantum leap to achieve equivalence with the developed world? {{ Read Further | http://peaceprofits.livejournal.com/1038.html#cutid1 }}

Will we meet our collective World energy demand, predicted to increase by more than 5o per cent, in the next two decades? Will the world have energy resources to maintain the current rate of growth given …

• The inclination to nationalize oil companies
• Huge investments required for energy infrastructure
• Political instability in oil producing regions

Are Alternative Energies the only way out of this global predicament???

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Peace is the key to sustainability in the 21st century. The notion of peace and its value in the world economy is not well understood. Historically, peace has been seen as something won by war, or else as an altruistic ideal. Yet peace is the prerequisite to create the environment to achieve the levels of co-operation necessary to address the current global challenges that humanity faces including; climate change, loss of biodiversity & lack of fresh water.

Business and economics can be a key in helping to create the conditions that are necessary to build and maintain peace. Indeed, one of the biggest beneficiaries of peace is the business sector.  {{ Read Further| http://peaceprofits.livejournal.com/767.html#cutid1 }}