MEM in Paris , The two-day Major Economies Meetings (MEM), talks among major carbon emitting nations, took place last week. The economies of these 16 countries account for around four-fifths of global output of greenhouse gases. The meetings aim to put these countries into some sort of unified trajectory as the world heads toward coming […]
Earth Day is this coming Tuesday, April 22. There's an awful lot going on all over the world. Dating myself, I can tell you that my buddy, Donald, and I went to the first Earth Day in 1970 when we were teenagers. He claims it was primarily to meet girls. My rejoinder is "That's natural." […]
… plus c’est la meme chose. Well, much to probably nobody's surprise, the present President of the United States has once again distinguished himself by being just about the only top political leader in the industrialized democracies who doesn't subscribe to the belief that climate change is upon us, will overwhelm us if we don't […]
Energy Boost is the title of the article from yesterday in the "Washington Post." The Senate has agreed to " extend solar and wind energy tax breaks as part of a housing bill that is likely to win approval in the House." This article keys in on some businesses that are happy about the tax […]
"No good times, no bad times, There's no times at all, Just The New York Times" Here's some good, recent stuff from the venerable "New York Times." The "Business of Green" is a special section from a few weeks ago. (I wrote at some length over a year ago on their special of the same […]
I've written about the growing evidence that biofuels are becoming increasingly recognized as a menace to the environment, not the boon they were once thought to be. In Are Biofuels A Bummer? in February, I reported on a couple of recent studies showing how pressure on land use from biofuel production was creating the deleterious […]
… Not with a bang but a whimper."* I revisited congestion pricing in New York City recently. (See Congestion Pricing Redux from April 1 below.) Well, after having been recommended by the NY City Council, with the support of scores of municipal good government, environmental, labor and business groups, it sailed up the Hudson River […]
I'm killing two birds with one stone here (even though I'm a vegetarian). I'm going to highlight some of the more important recent stories I've not gotten to while pointing out some of the blogs I consider to be in the top tier. Gore kick starts sweeping program to slash U.S. carbon emissions is a […]
A truly classic quote, as reported in the Year in Review, came from Fred Krupp, influential president of the Environmental Defense Fund, in referring to the White House talks on climate change in September: "It was a lost opportunity. America needs to lead, and we can lead, but now the spotlight shifts to the Congress […]
I wrote about congestion pricing in the Big Apple here and here back in August and July. London, Stockholm and Singapore each have made it a big hit in their towns, and now they're trying to bring it to Broadway. Well, it took another positive step yesterday when the NYC City Council approved a plan […]
Yesterday, all over the world, people turned out the lights to dramatize their concerns about global warming. See this video from the Earth Hour folks: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9_c5K7Jdw9E” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] See also this slideshow, courtesy of Yahoo and Reuters.
I headed up to Columbia University this past week to check out the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet 08 conference. As usual, I couldn’t devote as much time as I would’ve liked to the conference sessions, but I came away with a few good insights nonetheless. Thursday, I attended a press briefing with Jeffrey […]
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