7 Posts Tagged "A billion polluters"
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 ...
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 ...
Foreign Policy on Playing God
Posted on October 25th 2012 |
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In its first post-debate, non-debate piece ...
New York Times op-ed: Rio Isn’t All Lost
Posted on June 19th 2012 |
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In June 1992, world leaders, including President George Bush, agreed to combat climate change at the Earth Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro. This week, at “Rio+20,” leaders, experts and activists will once more gather to ponder the fate of the planet.
Optimism will be in s ...
The EU Is Leading on Air Travel and Global Warming
Posted on June 16th 2012 |
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Summer travel season is upon us, with all the joys and travails that come with spending a perfectly fine vacation day stuck in an airport somewhere. Nevertheless, travel is fun and has plenty of positive sides to it. They range from increased cultural understanding to helping oth ...
(Example) The EU Is Leading on Air Travel and Global Warming
Posted on May 19th 2012 |
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(Example) Summer travel season is upon us, with all the joys and travails that come with spending a perfectly fine vacation day stuck in an airport somewhere. Nevertheless, travel is fun and has plenty of positive sides to it. They range from increased cultural understanding to helping oth ...
Occupy email
Posted on November 18th 2011 |
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The average time taken to respond to an email is greater, in aggregate, than the time it took to create.
Email is too cheap to send. That, in a nutshell, is why we are all drowning in it. It costs you nothing to add one more person as a recipient. ...
