With the launch of the new book, Chris has been busy delivering the Three E message to a media slowly awakening to the severity of our predicament. Recent world developments (spiking silver/gold/oil/food prices, a plummeting US dollar, renewed PIIGS debt concerns, MENA unrest, and Japan's woes, to name just a few) are sobering signals that we are far into the timeline that the Crash Course has predicted.

I thought I'd compile some of Chris' more recent and notable media appearances for those who may not have seen them yet.

BNN

This morning, BNN - Canada's Business News Network - aired this interview with Chris discussing the implications of the coming energy crunch (click image to launch the video):

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"In the long run, as decades of capital misallocations and inefficiencies in the global economy get shaken out, there’s going to be a redistribution of the wealth. And I think the wealth is going to go to where it’s treated best.

And at the end of the day, that’s really what I’m looking for: the places that have the most solid fundamentals and the best growth potential."

So states Simon Black, who travels the world (over 20 countries in the past 3 months) in order to assess and report on the investment and lifestyle opportunities offered by various international destinations for the readers of his blog, SovereignMan.com. His boots-on-the-ground observations lead him to conclude that there are a number of resource-rich and fiscally sound developing nations that are much better positioned to meet the future than the US and its developed counterparts. Smart investors, in his opinion, can't afford to ignore the stability and returns (both financial and lifestyle) that these countries offer. They should be asking themselves: Do I have sufficient exposure to these opportunities?

Click the play button below to listen to Chris' interview with Simon Black (runtime 33m:25s):

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• 2008 Crash Deja Vu: We’ll Relive It, And Soon
• 5 Government Statistics You Can't Trust
• Currency Dead End Paradoxes
• Reality Check - How Much is that Priced in Euros?
• How The Comex Lost 20% Of Its "Registered" Silver In One Week, Or Where There's Smoke Of A Run, There's Probably A Run
• Gold Hits Fresh High As U.S. Dollar Falls To Three-Year Low
• Strong Australian dollar to help build cheap LNG export terminals, says Origin Energy CEO
• Julia Gillard Calls For Closer Defence Ties With Beijing
• Gold Reserves Per Person
• Bogus Threats to U.S. Reserve Currency Status: No Country Really Wants It!
• Bank Arbitrage (JPM, C)
• Philadelphia Schools To See 16% Layoffs
• Chubu Electric Eyes Restarting Hamaoka Nuke Reactor Around July
• Tokyo Disney Resort Under Pressure To Cut Down On Power Consumption

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• 5 Burlco Towns Opting To Exceed Tax Cap Brace For Vote
• Bernanke Defends Fed’s Role in Running Economy
• For A Few Dollars More
• QE3 or not QE3? That is the Question
• A Japanese Plant Struggles to Produce a Critical Auto Part
• Japan Quake Still Reverberating Through Auto Industry
• More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry In The World
• Of Mines And Men
• Chernobyl, 25 Years Later

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• Rising costs may mean an end to the era of cheap goods from China
• Soaring food prices to raise Asian poverty: report
• P&G raising some prices for retailers
• Kimberly-Clark to raise prices to offset costs
• Meat prices seen going even higher
• Delta Air Lines to raise ticket prices after $318 million 1Q loss
• US Airways lost $114M in 1Q on bigger fuel bill
• German Nuclear Exit May Boost Power Prices 30%, BDI Group Says
• Gasoline crisis looms in Russia as international prices rise
• 3rd Coca-Cola's Profit Up As Revenue Climbs 40%
• Kroger Affirms Forecast, Sees Grocery Prices Hikes
• Peanut-Butter Price Jump in Store for U.S., Goldman Says: Chart of the Day
• Public Pensions, Once Off Limits, Face Budget Cuts
• Budget cuts shut down alien-hunting telescopes
• S.D. schools plan for doomsday budget
• Budget will be all pain, no gain: Mike
• Geithner: Debt-Ceiling Debate Is 'Irresponsible'
• Spain seeks to reassure as borrowing costs rise
• Thieves target truck tailgates for the steel
• Nest egg is missing for N.J. public worker retirees

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• The 'Age of America' Is Ending
• Anatomy of a Crisis: 2011
• Syria: U.S. Considers 'Targeted Sanctions' Amid Crackdown
• Grantham Comes Face-To-Face With A Paradigm Shift
• Apmex Starts Reverse Inquiry: Seeks To Buy "Any Quantity" Of Silver From Clients At $3 Over Spot
• The People's Will: California's Experiment With Extreme Democracy
• Don't Let Goldman off the Hook
• China's Minmetals Bows Out To Barrick Gold's $7.7 Billion
• Three Mile Island Expert: Fukushima Could Kill 200,000

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• China Proposes To Cut Two Thirds Of Its $3 Trillion In USD Holdings
• Christie v. Court: Is threat for real?
• Convergence Of Trouble
• Inflation vs. Hyperinflation: The Crucial Difference 
• Phil Davis Discusses Options and Today’s Markets
• The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression
• Debunking Anti-Gold Propaganda
• Predicting Regional And Global Peak Oil And Total Recoverable Oil

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• Mauldin: The “Miracle” of Compound Inflation
• Your Pick, Ben, But One Goes Off the Cliff
• America Appears To Be Sleepwalking Towards Disaster – Does No One Care?
• First Time Since 1935, Handouts Exceeding Taxes
• China, Japan, South Korea Urge Further Efforts For Trilateral Investment Framework
• Stimulus by Fed Is Disappointing, Economists Say
• "Energy Shift Parade" held to protest against nuclear policy in Japan
• Magnitude 4.8 - Off The East Coast Of Honshu, Japan

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• Silver Price Warning From Jim Rogers
• Gold Prices "Not Finished By A Long Shot"
• Welcome to the new Cold War: China vs. the United States
• Restructuring: By Design Or By Default?
• Treasuries Advance Before Fed Meets on Bets Growth Will Suffer
• Obama On Rising Gas Prices: "No Silver Bullet"
• China Crops in Short Supply as Fewer Farms Spur Food Prices
• Coast Guard Cites Many Lapses in Sinking of Deepwater Oil Rig

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I am an energy auditor and weatherization contractor working primarily in the residential market in Central Pennsylvania. Through a variety of tests, I can tell a homeowner not only what home improvements should be done to improve the efficiency of the home, but also what the return on investment will be. Apart from the energy savings, I also pay particular attention to the health and safety of the home.

Energy auditing and building analysis is a fairly new industry. I received my training in Maine, through Maine Housing, and at the Weatherization Training Center at Penn College. I also went through the Building Performance Institute's Building Analyst certification.

I would like to share some of the tricks of my trade with the ChrisMartenson.com community. I will also share an average of the return on investments that I have seen on my jobs. As I go through a home, these are the items I typically look at:

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