Climate Change

If you haven't made up your mind and want to see how McCain and Obama are on climate change and the environment, some of this material might help you.  If you have made up your mind, this stuff might give you an idea of how President Obama or President McCain might pursue matters of the […]

The museum has been a cornerstone of natural history research and public education since it first opened its doors in 1871.  Most people who've grown up in the NY metropolitan area have spent many happy hours there learning and being amazed and tourists come from all over the world.  AMNH has a brand-new exhibit on […]

Electric Cars – There’s more good coverage on the promising trend to ZEV surface transportation.  See Any colour as long as it is green* from the “FT” yesterday.  Mitsubishi is getting out in front of GM and Renault-Nissan on electric cars.  The car is small but it’s got range and it’s ten times cheaper to […]

These are some juicy items I've been saving up.  They probably should be savored by you and me more fully, "But at my back, I always hear, time's winged chariot hurrying near." PV Paint , This is very beautiful, as an old rugby clubmate of mine might've said:  Solar Paint on Steel Could Generate Renewable […]

I went to an interesting confabulation yesterday up at the Earth Institute.  Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, and Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCC, kicked around the relative merits of the financial architecture of the Kyoto Protocol.  In a nutshell, Sachs thought the way we've been doing business in terms of […]

It’s not as catchy as “Drill, Baby, Drill” but it’s actually where we’re going in the developed world. There have been a number of important developments recently entirely worthy of note. (See observations I’ve made previously in this area under Carbon Markets.) Energy and Commerce – The US House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee […]

All the positive things I’ve described here at the blog regarding business practices, technological breakthroughs, and political developments are very much in train. They signal, in my mind, real hope for the future. I don’t, however, want to live with rose-colored glasses obscuring my vision. We’re heading into a tempest now. The world economic crisis […]

Unless you’ve been away on a several-month long vacation in another solar system, you know all about the incredible turmoil we’ve been experiencing in the world stock and money markets and in the “real economy.” Now that the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,” with the “Troubled Asset Relief Program” at its core, has been […]

I will never tell you that I can predict what Congress is going to do.  Based on everything I've been reading for several weeks from every economist in sight who's been asked, I thought the vast majority of the members of the House of Representatives would've figured it out.  And sometimes you just do the […]

I've mentioned the question of the renewable energy tax credits any number of times at this blog, most recently on September 21 and 24 below.  Well, the House, not surprisingly, did not embrace the Senate's bill from September 23.  For one thing, the Senate bill, somewhat out of left field and only to placate Republican […]

I sat in on some of the exciting sessions of the FPA's annual World Leadership Forum (WLF) this week.  If you're interested in the recent developments in the financial industry and the bigger picture of the "geoeconomy," there were two panels of experts discussing some of the ins and outs of those issues which you […]

Well, the Senate, after Republicans blocked a vote eight times previously, passed a tax package yesterday that includes the extension of the various credits for renewables.  See this from Reuters and this from Bloomberg.  The vote was a breathtaking 92-3.  The draft legislation does pare away billions in oil and gas industry tax breaks in […]