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  • If we try cap-and-trade systems, we have to handle coal separately

    Below is a first draft of an essay I’m formulating. I welcome comments and will post a revised draft after a while: Why we must be more concerned about capping emissions than trading them If there is one thing that the recent financial debacle should have taught us, it’s that risk cannot be managed by […]

  • UPS to deliver by b-i-k-e?

    The president of the Salem (Ore.) Bicycle Club got an e-mail from someone purportedly at UPS looking to hire seasonal drivers to make deliveries by bike — and thus to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Wowie! If this is for real, it means that all those with admiring eyes for the buff men and women in brown […]

  • E-waste scandal on 60 Minutes

    60 Minutes will be airing a segment on the global toxic trade in e-waste tonight. Here’s a preview story and video.

  • Biofuel you can believe in

    Flint, Michigan seeks Swedish help in turning human waste into biogas to power buses.