Can The Market Save The Planet?
In the wake of that lengthy and informative New York Times Magazine piece on market- and investment-oriented approaches to energy action and climate change, Newsweek has run two articles on a trend: captalistic incentives toward environmentalism. The first profiles a pure, free-market tit-for-tat venture, in which the tat is environmental responsiblity. READ MORE >>
Mickey Mouse Operation
Solar Lining In The Bailout Bill
Yesterday, in addition to passing the once-doomed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, otherwise known as "the bailout," the Senate and House did a very good thing: Lawmakers extended and modified the federal investment tax credit for residential and commercial solar energy development. Such tax credits, originally enacted in 2005, are generally recognized to be essential to help the younger industry compete against the (readily subsidized) coal, nuclear and oil industries, and to allow increased competition to drive solar products down the cost curve. READ MORE >>
The Green Bubble Hasn't Burst
Ever-present eco-straight talkers Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, whose important essay on "The Death of Environmentalism" (PDF) and subsequent full-length book, Break Through (not to mention a summer Democracy Journal article titled "Scrap Kyoto"), have ruffled more than a few feathers within the green coalition, are READ MORE >>
Oil Shale Out The Doggy Door
As we've been following here, the Democratic Congress has fully capitulated on the issue of offshore drilling, thereby giving the "drill here, drill now" crowd its catnip. READ MORE >>
If You Green It...
The T-bill Vote
In her interview late last week with Charlie Gibson, Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin made some less than savvy remarks about entitlements (which,quoth she, are “agencies” that must be “challenged to find efficiencies and spend other people’s money wisely”). Foremost among the big three entitlements, at least electorally, is the Social Security program, which Palin’s running mate John McCain READ MORE >>
This Post Is Killing The Planet
The Times of London has obtained a recent patent application from Google, which put the following on the supercompany's wish list: "Computing centres ... located on a ship or ships, anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away.” READ MORE >>
Who's On First...again
Yesterday at the Center for American Progress, John Podesta spoke with SEIU President Andy Stern about his new book on The Power of Progress. I got the chance to ask them both about health care and the energy crisis. In his book, Podesta spends a lot of time on the latter, writing that “climate change, in my view, is the most demanding problem confronting America today.” I wondered if health care costs and the ballooning number of the uninsured wasn’t also pressing, and wanted to know—especially given Podesta’s READ MORE >>
Drill, Barack, Drill?
From the Politico: READ MORE >>
