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Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
A few bits and pieces of news on global warming, plus a book recommendation. First, scientists appear to be moving away from the view that the gulf stream is likely to collapse in the short-term long future. You may recall that the Hollywoodization of glo...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
If I can indulge in a little bit of self-publicity, a review I wrote of a Resources for the Future book called Scarcity and Growth Revisited has been posted at the Environmental Economics blog. At the end of it, one of the things I mention is that there's...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One of the thorny issues of local food (and relocalizing in general) is rebuilding the institutions that support local food. Millers and marketplaces are both needed to have a vibrant, comprehensive food system, and they've mostly withered away, replaced ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The SJR carries a sad little piece by a George Mason professor of economics on ... climate change, gun control, and income taxes. I was at first interested to see how climate change and gun control work together, and how income taxes affect the both of th...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
One of the slams against sustainable foods--local and organic or some combination of the two--is that they're the preserve of the wealthy, the upper middle class. Rebecca Blood is giving herself a challenge to see if that's the case. She's committing to l...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Thirty-one states recently came to an agreement on monitoring major emitters of greenhouse gases. It's an important step to building necessary infrastructure for greenhouse gas caps. Thirty-one is a big number (well, out of 50, it's a big number), but fol...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Cleantech Blog has a rundown of some issues from a recent home performance conference, on getting home performance ratings to work. That is, how do you convey how green a home is during resale This is definitely something that we'd like to see CWLP get i...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPAct 2005, to those in the know) tasked public utilities to develop a handful of plans on specific topics, to be done by August 2008. The topics are pretty dreary sounding: net and smart metering, fossil fuel efficiency, inter...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
So, May is the National Bicycle Month. If you've been considering biking to work, or even to the grocery store or the gym, now's the time to start. There's the standard blah-blah-blah: healthy, good for the environment, fun--but what you're really thinkin...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative--the first coalition of states to pull together to cap greenhouse gas emissions, composed of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticutt, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland--see...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I'll be honest, I don't have any sense how big a problem this is in Springfield, but I figure we're mostly an office-culture kind of place, so I thought I'd toss it out. InfoWorld has a piece on how bad corporate habits (and I imagine you can read "bad st...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Carbon offsets are a tricky problem. I happen to think they are more useful than not, but that's with the presumption that people move their energy use in fits and starts, and offsets are just for the in-bewteen time. Nonetheless, it's always important to...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The US Senate has been holding hearings about increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars. As they always do, US auto manufacturers had a representative claiming the requirements would cost American jobs. I've been searching for an explanation of that a...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I can be magnanimous--really. So I don't begrudge the coal industry this nifty little story: a 15 square mile section of prehistoric rainforest has been found fossilized in a Illinois coal mine.
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Via Richard Layman, the University of Minnesota has a broadscale study of accessibility in the Twin Cities region. For those not up on the latest transportation lingo, accessibility is contrasted with mobility as a way of judging the efficiency of a trans...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
CES does a lot on those little individual actions that you, Dear Reader, can take to lessen your carbon burden. And when the clean energy plan was in city council, we tried to get the word out to supporters to contact their aldermen. Other than that, thou...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
I can't complain too much about the SJR's "In My View" columns, since they were kind enough to run mine. But today's is a doozy. I don't want to grapple with it to much, for fear of granting it legitimacy it doesn't deserve. So let me say this: Mr. Watt's...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
There are a few articles of note in today's SJR. Gas prices are always good for an active and amusing comment board, and the buffalo gnat story has, for me anyway, the ring of what's to come from global warming (even if it's not the case that our own infe...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Obviously, the first thing to say about the pipeline explosion is: Thank goodness no one got hurt. And further: thank goodness that the many utilities running variously toxic and explosive fuels and chemicals around the country are staffed with engineers ...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
The SJR editorializes against the punditry class that's making a cottage industry out of global warming debunkery, eloquently invoking Carl Sagan's gift for bridging the scientific community and the public at-large.And it's true: we need more people can b...
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