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The law of unintended consequences and Waxman-Markey
From Environmental Capital at the WSJ:The law of unintended consequences strikes yet again. Global plans to tackle climate change, from the Kyoto Protocol to the recently-passed Waxman-Markey bill, have a fatal flaw: They essentially encourage large-scale deforestation, which pretty much undermines the whole idea of curbing greenhouse-...[read more]
FedEx: Pushing the envelope on sustainability
When you need to ship a package, how do you choose between FedEx and UPS? Their services are similar, if not identical. While I’ve never compared prices, I assume they are roughly equivalent. Could the company’s sustainability practices come into play? I’m told that they do, for select customers. Their employees care as well–people want...[read more]
Green MBAs return on investment
photo: EDF In my new Green State column on Grist, I catch up with the Climate Corps, a group of green MBA students sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund. The Climate Corps recently finished 10-week internships with Fortune 500 companies, saving them an estimated $54 million through energy efficiency measures the students...[read more]
Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Guide
While LEDs look to be the future, for the time being compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) are the mass market answer to efficiency. So as we just brought up lighting, see: I Love This Light Bulb! - I want to share a great guide to CFLs. The Environmental Defense Fund’s Find an Energy-Saving Light Bulb....[read more]
The Great Wall embraces Wall Street
Here comes a new carbon finance market, this one with Chinese characteristics. In the latest sign that China takes the threat of global warming seriously, Chinese business executives with close ties to the government have launched a voluntary market in Beijing to buy and sell carbon credits. Just don’t call it cap-and-trade, which is...[read more]
Offsetting for good
Voluntary, private offsets for carbon emissions have puzzled economists for a while. First, of course, why would people buy them if they are voluntary? Turns out they do. Second, and perhaps more important, how can we ensure that they do indeed make a difference, since some can even be counterproductive. (That's particularly true for...[read more]
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“Most hydro projects do not just serve as power generation but provide flood defenses and also a more regular irrigation source for the local land. I would go so far as saying the majority of the worlds dams produce electricity as an important byproduct while the flood protection and irrigation are their primary reason to be.”
“I'm afraid that our decision-making systems make any meaningful climate change action pretty much impossible before climate change actually starts having a direct, consistent and clearly attributable negative impact on the lives of a large portion of the electorate. It will probably take many more ppm for this to happen.In the meantime, the best we can do is to prepare for very rapid changes to ...”