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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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Michael Pollan on Deep Agriculture
I can’t believe how much I enjoy the Long Now talks. Thoughtful and intelligent people, usually talking about things I happen to think are important, and interesting. I almost feel like it’s a re-invention of the oratory form. I’m glad … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, food, green, light, longnow, personal, policy, politics, public, reviews, sustainability, talks
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Shared Links for May 24th
Math and the City – The same scaling laws seem to apply to both cities and organisms: infrastructure requirements per capita (or per unit body mass) go down as population (size) go up. Not so surprising, since both cities and … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, agriculture, art, bicycle, biology, china, cities, design, economics, food, gardening, infrastructure, nasa, policy, politics, space, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, trade, transportation
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Shared Links for May 12th
Forecast: On Climate Change, Cooler Temperatures Bring Hotter Air – Augh, we are prisoners to so many perceptual fallacies. Recency and narration loom large among them. It turns out that the average temperature of the last 12 months is a … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, architecture, bicycles, cities, climate, design, economics, fallacy, food, gardening, germany, government, green, parking, philosophy, policy, politics, popper, potatoes, propaganda, science, society, statistics, sustainability, taxes, transportation, visualization, wealth
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Shared Links for May 11th
Where can you get Cheap Natural Fertilizers and Soil Amendments? – A nice concise list of natural sources for garden nutrients, when your compost pile just isn't quite enough. (tagged: gardening food organic fertlizer compost biology ) Pinko bastion spawns … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, berkeley, biology, biotech, bonds, boulder, capitalism, cars, cities, compost, concrete, construction, debate, design, efficiency, energy, engineering, fertlizer, finance, food, future, gardening, genetics, green, investing, longnow, organic, parking, planning, science, sculpture, solar, sustainability, technology, transportation
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Shared Links for Apr 6th
Sing a dirge for the unused adipic acid – An essay on the unpleasantries of being lab safety officer, and the sentimental attachment that scientists have to their expired reagents. (tagged: science chemistry lab safety ) Does carbon-eating cement deserve … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, antarctica, breastfeeding, carbon, cement, chemistry, children, cities, climate, education, environment, food, gardening, health, ice, lab, safety, science, society, sustainability, technology
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Shared Links for Apr 3rd
Stealing Commodities – Our infrastructure is (unwittingly) built around the assumption that the materials it is composed of are, and will remain, cheap, and not worth the trouble of stealing. If this assumption breaks down, copper power lines start disappearing … Continue reading
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Tagged argentina, cars, china, climate, commodities, economics, food, infrastructure, local, money, oregon, policy, politics, privacy, propaganda, science, security, sustainability, taxes, technology, transportation, vmt
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Shared Links for Mar 26th
Postopolis LA – Presentations, films, talks slideshows, discussions and parties, centered around architecture, design, and the future of cities. Wish I knew someone who was going… (tagged: losangeles architecture design urban ) Seville Orange Marmalade Recipe – Going to get … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG, architecture, astrology, bailout, canning, cities, cooking, copyright, creativecommons, design, education, food, funny, losangeles, marmalade, nytimes, open, openaccess, orange, politics, pseudoscience, recipe, science, seville, skeptic
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Have you seen the light?
As animals, and especially visual animals at that, we have a particular experience of the light. For us it is illumination, information about our surroundings. For that purpose moonlight or even starlight will do. And for tens of millions of … Continue reading
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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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Tagged agriculture, antibiotics, auction, bailout, banks, carbon, citi, climate, copyright, crisis, economics, economy, energy, evolution, farms, finance, food, health, history, internet, investing, livestock, mrsa, newspapers, obama, policy, politics, publishing, technology
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How important is local food?
From a purely climatic point of view. Assuming the following: For each calorie of food you consume, the equivalent of 9 additional calories worth of gas were burned to get the food to your plate (this is industrial food production). … Continue reading