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The Federal Housing Finance Administration is taking public comments on Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, at the insistence of California's 9th Circuit court of appeals. Here's what I told them: Property Assessed Clean Energy financing programs, as have been initiated by many states and local governments, are a potentially transformative financing mechanism, enabling property owners to make good long term investments in energy efficiency and behind-the-meter renewable energy production. They address a market failure, in that buyers often do not appropriately integrate a property's energy costs into their price assessment. So long as the state and local PACE programs are - Climate Denial Instruction In Schools
Corporate interests are pushing a model bill in many states that would require schools to teach climate change denial. It sounds creepily reminiscent of the creationism/evolution mess from a few years ago. Except with the fossil fuel industry instead of the religious right behind it. Gah. - Vision Prize
Vision Prize is an expert poll on the nature of the climate risks we face, meant to demonstrate the degree of consensus (or the lack thereof) amongst those able to judge the evidence. It's put together by Carnegie Mellon University. Will be interesting to see what the results look like... - Open Climate Science Course
The University of Chicago has created an Open Courseware style Climate Science 101, with videos of the lectures and self-assessment materials online. It's aimed at non-science undergraduates. If you, or someone you know, want to get a little more in depth knowledge about climate science on their own time, it's a great resource. - Think Again: Drugs
A great roundup of the myths surrounding the Drug War, and the cogent arguments against continuing our ridiculous, harmful, and expensive policy of ideological prohibition.
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- Roughly 2/3 of all the humans who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today. 2 weeks ago
- What I learned about coal industry finances this week: http://t.co/UN1lXxRm 3 weeks ago
- In a room full of suits at NYU law. Everyone here wants to end the Reign of Old King Coal. Strangulation by purse strings. 4 weeks ago
- More thoughts on the dangers of giving in to a defeatist climate apocalypse narrative: http://t.co/Bwq276vQ from @AlexSteffen 1 month ago
- Authorizing US military to indefinitely detain citizens w/o trial would be unconstitutional, right? http://t.co/cRKXkpfb #tellmeimdreaming 2 months ago
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Tag Archives: banks
Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?
Nobody from Wall St. but Bernie Madoff is going to jail. No wonder the banksters continue their trillion dollar white collar crime spree. They and their regulators are one in the same. Favorite quote from a congressional staffer: “You put … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, banks, banksters, finance, government, law, wall street
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Links for the week of June 26th, 2010
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Tagged academia, bailout, banks, caltech, cars, chemistry, cities, economics, education, election, fish, food, government, gradschool, greenpeace, iceland, japan, jobs, kagan, phd, politics, research, science, scotus, sharing, society, sustainability, technology, transparency, transportation, tuna
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Links for the week of September 11th, 2009
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Tagged accident, animation, architecture, art, banks, bicycle, biology, bonds, burningman, calendar, california, camouflage, carhartt, cars, corset, craig, crisis, dam, darwin, drugs, economics, edge, electricity, energy, evolution, fashion, finance, future, gardening, genetics, glasses, globalization, health, history, hydroelectric, information, insurance, investing, japan, law, losangeles, money, photos, policy, politics, propaganda, renewable, RPS, russia, safety, schedule, science, shopping, siberia, solar, sustainability, synthetic, terrorism, time, tokyo, transportation, venter, video, vintage, visualization, war
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Links for the week of September 4th, 2009
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Tagged 9/11, agriculture, ashcroft, banks, beckysweet, bicycle, cars, consumption, corporations, dating, depression, development, economics, economy, education, friedman, gay, happiness, health, history, information, internet, keynes, krugman, law, love, nature, oregon, osx, photos, policy, politics, relationships, safety, science, scotus, sex, society, software, statistics, sustainability, swimming, technology, terrorism, timelapse, tools, traffic, transportation, turing, video, vineyard, wilderness, willamette, wine
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Shared Links for May 5th
How David Beats Goliath – When the rules are stacked against you, the intelligent thing to do is break them. (tagged: strategy law war insurgency guerilla gametheory basketball lawrenceofarabia ) Continuous bankruptcy – Bankruptcy as it stands now is a … Continue reading
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Shared Links for Apr 8th
The secret, social lives of bacteria – Cooperative behavior between bacteria, both inter and intra species, coordinated via chemical messages. Behavior like "should we make light?" and "should we kill the host now?". Scary, awesome, and a beautiful system to … Continue reading
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Tagged antarctica, bacteria, bailout, banks, biology, climate, cooperation, economics, enron, finance, gametheory, government, ice, law, math, policy, politics, ppip, prediction, science, shelf, technology, transparency
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Shared Links for Mar 14th
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable – A good epitaph for the newspaper, by Clay Shirky. Now if only Elsevier would go bankrupt too. (tagged: technology economy history internet copyright publishing newspapers ) Will Banks Start to Walk Their Talk? Don't … Continue reading
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Shared Links for Feb 26th
Zombie Bank Monster Mash – An animated monster mash, starring our bailed out financial "industry" (or is it just a lobby now?). Sadly Mark Fiore seems unwilling to implicate the current administration in the continuing mess. (tagged: cartoon zombie finance … Continue reading
Shared Links for Feb 23rd
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers – I just don't buy the lament of the newspapermen. If the papers were subsidizing the collection of "real" news with ads, how sure are we that people ever wanted news? Why exactly should … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, atheism, bailout, banks, bernanke, cosmos, crisis, democracy, economics, economy, fed, finance, financial, geithner, government, media, mortgage, naturalism, religion, sagan, science, spirituality, stimulus, subprime, technology, transparency, zombie
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