Le Monde review of La Bulle Verte:   La Croix:    

Le contraste devient aujourd’hui frappant entre les promesses des technologies de pointe et les échecs, voire les catastrophes, qui sapent tant de grands projets : la défaillance initiale d’Ariane 5, l’incendie du Tunnel sous la manche, l’abandon de Superphénix, les tribulations de l’avion militaire Eurofighter, le fiasco de la navette spatiale Hermès, etc. En se […]

In an alarming expose of the scientific community, City University of New York economics professor Bell charges that all aspects of our welfare, social and military infrastructure are threatened by extensive fraud, secrecy and fierce competition for research funds from government and industry. While whistle-blowers are penalized, he notes, especially for exposing such costly fiascos […]

Renewable energy can now “keep the lights on” without disruption, thanks to a new technology that makes it possible to store surplus energy from wind, solar and nuclear sources. EU Member of Parliament, Corinne Lepage and American Professor Robert I. Bell have proposed a potential solution to the global warming crisis and to energy independence. […]

On Tuesday, November 9, 2010, I gave a keynote address at the G20 in Seoul, Korea, at the Universal Ethics Summit, one of the three events organized by the host government, with the aid of the Won Buddhist organization. In this speech I said that governments, run by officials focused on their own immediate situations, […]

the first attempt to lay out the scenario of “after oil”, combining considerations of energy, geopolitics, the functioning of business and markets, extending to the mores of American society.                                                     […]

Robert I. Bell, Ph.D. is a Professor in and the former Chair of the Finance and Business Management Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is also the former Chair of that College’s Department of Economics. He has authored several books, including La BulleVerte (Paris 2007); The Green Bubble (Paris 2006; updated, N.Y. […]