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Are the politics of public investment really easier?
I'm somewhat dismayed to see the normally sharp Ezra Klein falling for the goofiest parts of the new Breakthrough/Brookings/AEI report. In fact he seems on the verge of drinking the Breakthrough kool-aid entirely. Consider this my attempt at an intervention. In particular, I want to take issue with the notion that investment is some sort of political skeleton key that can bypass the vicious partisan fighting that's characterized energy policy these last few decades.
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Koch brothers' Tea Party connections confirmed [VIDEO]
The billionaire Koch brothers claim they are not connected to the Tea Party. But a new video shows David Koch at an Americans For Prosperity gala.
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Phone book litter banned in Seattle, nation's first opt-out city
Phone book litter has been banned in Seattle. That means no more bulky yellow books in plastic bags on doorsteps, unless residents opt in.
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Feds approve first solar farm on government land in Nevada
The Obama administration's solar boom continues. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the first lease for a huge solar project on federal Nevada land
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Purdue’s Gebisa Ejeta on the vexing task of feeding a growing population
Over the next several weeks, I'll be attending the University of Washington's food and environment lecture series and harvesting knowledge from a diverse array of food-system luminaries. Plant breeding expert Gebisa Ejeta of Purdue University opened the series -- and a pot of worms -- by talking up a new petrochemical-dependent "Green Revolution" in Africa and talking down the potential of organic farming in feeding the masses.
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There is no one correct climate policy
One of the most important lessons from the implosion of cap-and-trade is that monocrops are as dangerous in policy as they are in nature. It's time to get over the notion that climate/energy efforts need to "revolve around" any single policy strategy. More importantly, we need to leapfrog the noxious notion that different policy approaches are at war with one another. We need them all.
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In Los Angeles, people come out to play when streets are closed to cars [VIDEO]
"We can take a ... street that's usually filled with cars and congestion, blowing out pollution all around, and clear every car from that street, and create a canvas of what a community can look like when we get the cars off the streets and let people enjoy them in the way we are today." That's the mayor of Los Angeles talking.
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My Intentional Life: Sharing is Daring
In this My Intentional Life, the gang meets to discuss whether splitting their Community Supported Agriculture share is threatening to split them up.
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Think tanks say dump cap-and-trade, pump billions into clean energy
A bi-partisan team of think tankers says good riddance to cap-and-trade. Instead, they say we should pump boatloads of money into clean energy.
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NYC to use hybrid Zipcars for city employees
New York is the latest municipality to try car-sharing for city employees as a strategy for reducing costs and the number of automobiles on the street.
