Gross Domestic Product: Grossly incomplete, but we can fix it
Posted on May 17th 2013 |
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Via EDF Voices. This first appeared online in an article posted at ensia.com.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ...
Benefits of Clean Air and Water Dwarf Costs 10 to 1
Posted on May 8th 2013 |
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(This post was first published on EDF Voices.)
The Office of Management and Budget is nerd heaven: a bunch of people getting their professional kicks from analyzing federal ...
PlasTax: the best kind of nudge
Posted on May 1st 2013 |
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Nudge is the best kind of book. It presents the type of head-slappingly obvious solutions to public policy problems that make you wonder why you needed a book to tell you about them in th ...
New York Times Sunday Dialogue: Tackling Global Warming
Posted on April 7th 2013 |
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New York Times readers react to a letter by Robert Fri, chairman of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Alternative Energy Future project and a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future. My take:
The solution to global warming — the only real solution — s ...
Why does no one in Thailand recycle, Bangkok is a polluted mess, yet everyone uses CFLs?
Posted on March 19th 2013 |
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Few Thais recycle, no one bikes, plastic bags are everywhere and Bangkok is afflicted by gridlock and pollution. So you might say that, in general, Thais behave more like citizens of a rapidly emerging economy than the typical Brooklyn environmentalist.
Why, then, does virtually every h ...
Nature: The rebound effect is overplayed
Posted on January 23rd 2013 |
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Trying to put the rebound effect for energy efficiency in its rightful place is like playing a game of wack-a-mole. Predictably every couple of years, someone new discovers the counter-intuitive appeal of showing how more efficient energy policies may lead to more energy use. Wham! Told yo ...
Foreign Policy on “10 problems Obama could solve right now.” Mine: global warming.
Posted on January 2nd 2013 |
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When Foreign Policy magazine went looking for 10 problems President Obama "could solve right now," they put global warming on the list. Mind you, "President Obama isn't going to halt the rise of the oceans in his second term." And it'll be tough to do what's necessary, but there ...
