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Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, talks about "perhaps the greatest challenge we have faced in the history of humankind."

"Taxing the firms that produce oil is not going to result in more oil. " - Keith Hennessey

Lawmakers want to know how oil companies can justify record profits when millions of customers are struggling with skyrocketing gas prices.

There is a nationwide effort by truck drivers to draw attention to the high prices of diesel gas.

In the U.K., higher animal-feed prices have put pig husbandry in crisis.

Canadians weigh social and environmental factors in investment decisions, Investors Group finds.

Scott Raymond, a Stanfrod Graduate Business School Student, explains that in rural Thailand, wages are around $1.48/day. With entrepreneurial skills, villagers can quadruple their daily wage.

Scott Raymond, a student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, talks about the benefit of community bank loans to entrepreneurs that help to bind villagers together in a shared vision.

On September 13, 2007, The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour was in San Francisco at the invitation of New Voice of Business. The Tour is designed to explain in plain, non-partisan terms, why budget analysts of diverse perspectives are increasingly alarmed by the nation's long-term fiscal outlook.

On September 13, 2007, The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour was in San Francisco at the invitation of New Voice of Business. The Tour is designed to explain in plain, non-partisan terms, why budget analysts of diverse perspectives are increasingly alarmed by the nation's long-term fiscal outlook.