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- PACE Lives!
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: election
Electoral gains for Pirate Party in Berlin
In Berlin, Pirates have won 9% of the vote, and now have 15 seats in the city-state’s legislature. This kind of gradual integration of supposedly “fringe” issues into mainstream politics is valuable, and also impossible in an electoral system like … Continue reading
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Tagged election, germany, government, law, party, pirate, policy, politics
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Vote for local, transparent regulation: Vote Yes on 2B and 2C
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regulates Xcel Energy; they have final say over the rates that the company is allowed to charge, and which investments they make in our energy future. In the past four years, the CPUC has … Continue reading
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Tagged boulder, cpuc, election, energy, municipalization, politics
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The First 2011 PLAN Boulder Council Candidate Forum
Friday September 9th PLAN Boulder County held the first of their City Council candidate fora at the Boulder Public Library. The room was packed, with people standing in the back, listening to Tim Plass, Daniel Ziskin, Jonathan Hondorf, Ken Wilson … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, alan boles, boulder, campaign, city, council, daniel zisken, election, forum, john tayer, jonathan hondorf, ken wilson, kevin hotaling, PLAN Boulder, politics, tim plass
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Links for the week of November 6th, 2010
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Tagged bailout, billmoyers, corporations, corruption, democracy, economics, election, finance, government, howardzinn, law, money, politics
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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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Shared Links for Jun 26th – Jul 7th
You can also search or subscribe to my linkstream over at Delicious. Christian high school discussion of climate change – Kurt Klein's AP Environmental Science class is reading Richard B. Alley's Two Mile Time Machine, about paleoclimate, ice cores, and … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, agriculture, architecture, art, backpacking, bailout, bicycle, boat, bonds, caltech, capitalism, cities, climate, colorado, compost, conference, cooking, csa, data, debt, democracy, demographics, design, economics, economy, education, efficiency, election, electricity, energy, environment, finance, fish, food, fraud, future, gdp, goldmansachs, government, green, greenland, history, homemade, ice, infrastructure, internet, investing, iran, islam, law, longnow, maps, math, netherlands, non-linear, ocean, oecd, pasadena, passivhaus, performance, photos, policy, politics, poverty, privacy, rain, recipe, religion, research, sailing, science, sierras, society, solar, statistics, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technologie, technology, towatch, traderjoes, transparency, transportation, twitter, video, visualization, war, water, web2.0, wikipedia, wilderness, women, yhike, yogurt
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Shared Links for Jun 16th
Is There a Better Word for Doom? – Six disparate views on the value and ethics of actively re-framing the public discussion surrounding climate change. (tagged: politics policy environment communication propaganda climate change science ) Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, … Continue reading
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Tagged change, climate, communication, design, economics, election, environment, internet, iran, lessig, longnow, maker, media, photos, police, policy, politics, propaganda, protest, science, social, socialism, technology, transparency, twitter, web2.0
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Ideas for Change in America
Change.org is a kind of public idea tourament. There are a bunch of different subsections: agricultural policy, government reform, energy, etc. Readers vote and comment on the ideas, and the top few ideas in each category advance to the next … Continue reading
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Tagged election, energy, money, policy, politics, public, technology, vote
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