Sun, March 14, 2010

Is Cap-and-Dividend the Answer to All this Carbon Business?

Posted 1 week, 2 days ago

This post appears courtesy The EnvironmentaList.

If you were searching for a parable about the dangers of tactical absolutism (you know, my-way-or-the-highway type thinking), the rise and fall of cap-and-trade legislation would be a good place to start.

In the months leading up to the passage…

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Forward from Copenhagen

Posted 1 week, 2 days ago

By Tom Athanasiou, director of Eco Equity and a member of the Greenhouse Development Rights authors group. This piece originally appeared in Earth Island Journal.

First, a confession: This is not another enumeration of confident judgments. I will not tell you that Copenhagen was an unmitigated…

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Calling Bullshit On Plastiki

Posted 1 week, 5 days ago

Okay, I know I’m going to get a bunch of “why are you being such a hater?” comments on this, but I feel compelled to take a moment and call bullshit on the Plastiki project. And no, not just because David de Rothschild is the latest trustafarian to hop on the green train.

For those of you who…

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