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Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 10:00 am

Would Disney World shut down at ten-dollar-a-gallon gas? Chris Steiner says so. And a lot more changes, too, on the way to twenty-dollars-a-gallon.

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Monday, August 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

No cars. No waste. No gas or oil. We go to Abu Dhabi, where plans are underway to build the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll go deep on one man’s tough quest to harness the wind for American power.

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Friday, November 14, 2008 at 11:00 am

Teenage students from West Philly High are competing for the X-Prize in hybrid-car design — and challenging the pros.

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Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

Half of all electricity in America is generated from coal. As oil wanes and world energy demand grows, coal’s role is destined to only grow bigger.
The problem is, coal is dirty. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants are a major contributor to global warming.
Five years ago, the Bush administration announced what it called one [...]

 
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Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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