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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: environment
The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal
The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal. Appalachian mountaintop removal mining has taken off in recent years in no small part because there’s not much left worth mining underground. All the eastern coal fields are in declining production, despite … Continue reading
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Tagged appalachia, coal, depletion, energy, environment, geology, peak, policy
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Links for the week of June 4th, 2010
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Tagged activism, africa, architecture, art, bicycle, biology, biotech, books, boulder, bp, business, caltech, capitalism, cities, colorado, computational, cu, culture, delta, documentary, drugs, eaglerock, electricity, environment, film, folk, glasses, government, iran, jobs, journalism, kickstarter, law, local, losangeles, marijuana, media, niger, nigeria, non-linear, nonprofit, oil, policy, politics, pollution, posters, research, review, satire, science, sharing, shell, shopping, society, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, technology, tools, vonnegut, waste, wind, yesmen
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Links for the week of February 11th, 2010
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Tagged activism, bicycle, california, cheonggye, cities, conference, copenhagen, design, environment, freeway, green, losangeles, river, seoul, sustainability, transportation, urban
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Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 1 of 2)
Where does our energy come from today, and how do we use it? How much does it take to live the Good Life, and what, really, should that energy be used on? Where might it plausibly come from in the … Continue reading
Tagged books, change, climate, coal, economics, energy, environment, nuclear, oil, reviews, science, sustainability
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Links for the week of October 15th, 2009
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Tagged amorylovins, architecture, bicycle, buildings, cervix, china, chinese, cities, climate, coal, copenhagen, denmark, design, economics, education, electricity, energy, environment, finance, foss4g, gis, gnu, government, kingsnorth, language, maps, menstruation, nuclear, osx, photos, planning, policy, politics, pregnancy, reference, rmi, school, sex, software, soleri, stewartbrand, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, teaching, technology, tools, transparency, transportation, tutoring, uk, urban, water, women, writing, 中文
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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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Shared Links for May 26th
The Story of Stuff – A 20 minute video on where "stuff" comes from, and where it goes, and a little bit on why, and how we might do it differently. Yeah, it's sustainability propaganda, but sometimes that's okay. (tagged: … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, architecture, cars, cities, climate, design, economics, energy, environment, europe, food, garden, green, passivhaus, policy, politics, recycling, russia, science, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, transportation
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Shared Links for May 21st
Car-Free Housing in European Cities – A survey of sustainable residential development projects across Europe, including Vauban, outside Freiburg. The study is from 2000, so it's a little out of date, but an interesting overview anyway. It would be great … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, bicycle, chile, cities, copyright, design, economics, environment, europe, green, internet, kayak, law, paddling, patagonia, policy, politics, religion, spanish, sustainability, technology, transportation, travel
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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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