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Why carrots and sticks are not interchangeable
David Roberts challenges carbon tax advocates. He says GHG policy should “penalize the emission of GHGs and reward the prevention of GHG emissions. Sticks and carrots.” As someone who thinks neither a carbon tax nor cap-and-trade can be the primary means to solve global warming, I’ll take on Roberts’ challenge just because it offers an […]
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CNN on energy efficiency and waste-energy recycling
The coolest thing about this story? They called us. The word is getting out there!
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Obama and Biden to take the train down to D.C. for the inauguration
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and their families will be taking a short tour of the northeastern seaboard by train as they travel to Washington for the inauguration, according to this note from the Presidential Inaugural Committee this morning: In the tradition of past Presidents-elect, the daylong trip will include a series of events on the […]
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Bush admin exempts farms from reporting toxic fumes
In yet another late-in-the-game not-so-green move, the Bush administration on Friday issued a regulation that exempts factory farms from having to report to the government about releases of hazardous air pollution from animal waste.
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The Golden State gets tough on diesel-truck pollution
California’s air regulators cracked down on diesel pollution from heavy-duty trucks on Friday, adopting tough new rules that will require older trucks to be retrofitted or replaced starting in 2011. Diesel trucks are currently responsible for a third of the state’s smog.
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After Poland talks, a new reality starts to set in, says McKibben; 350 ppm must be the goal
I spent the last few nights of the recent Poznan climate conference sleeping in the By the Way youth hostel, an excellent accommodation filled with excellent young people who had done excellent work at the negotiations. After the final day of deliberations, many of these young people visited the doubtless excellent discotheques of Poznan, returning […]
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Best Burger Ever discovered in tiny Ballard eatery
I was originally going to write this in an email to Tom Philpott, but I decided the Gristian masses deserve to know as well, in case y’all ever make it up to Seattle. I bring you an important announcement: the quest for the Best Burger Ever is over. Call it off. We’re done. Finito. On […]
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NYT op-ed says mostly men will benefit from green jobs
Green jobs are great — if you’re a dude, says a recent New York Times op-ed by Linda Hirshman: It turns out that green jobs are almost entirely male … especially in the alternative energy area. A broad study by the United States Conference of Mayors found that half the projected new jobs in any […]
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NYT op-ed says mostly men will benefit from green jobs
Green jobs are great — if you’re a dude, says a recent New York Times op-ed by Linda Hirshman: It turns out that green jobs are almost entirely male … especially in the alternative energy area. A broad study by the United States Conference of Mayors found that half the projected new jobs in any […]
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Cellulosic ethanol ranks dead last
Mark Jacobson (associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University) has just published a paper in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. You can read the entire article here (PDF). BEV = battery electric vehicle HFCV = hydrogen fuel cell vehicle CSP = concentrated solar panels PV = photovoltaic CCS = carbon […]
