For prosperity and human flourishing, how much energy is enough? American settlers survived and over time prospered burning wood for cooking and heat. Later energy innovations brought higher-density energy from the earth, with coal,...
The energy race is on, with separate lanes for teams advancing wind, solar, gas, coal, and oil sands technologies. Across the world enterprises race to discover and develop new energy-rich places and raw materials, searching...
The public school NSDA policy debate topic for the coming school year calls for immigration reform: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States....
One of the proposed NCFCA resolutions is about Europe. If chosen students can make the case to parents that travel to Europe for in-person research is key to success. Parents will likely say no,...
Recent posts looked at economics and demographics of West Africa for the proposed NCFCA resolution. Recently in the news, Ebola is back with an outbreak in Congo. The major 2014 Ebola outbreak brought this...
Learning a foreign language helps us better understand and appreciate the workings of our own language. Similarly, researching the dynamics and demographics of either of two proposed NCFCA topics, Economic Community of West African States...
The proposed NCFCA West Africa topic is a big one and a good one for researching geography, economics, and international relations. West Africa has a big future as populations and economies surge. Christianity is...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy toward one or more countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). For the 2018-2019 school year, NCFCA proposes three resolutions,...
A recent post reviewed the three proposed Stoa policy resolutions, including this one on reforming foreign aid: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its foreign aid. All three proposed topics are...
…about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River,...
