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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. 1 week 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. 3 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: green
Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps | Grist
Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps. I agree. I would join, give money to, and vote for a Green Party that was organized around this proposal. We shouldn’t get all Lawrence of Arabia … Continue reading
Links for the week of October 5th, 2010
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Tagged android, california, cars, cities, economics, google, green, information, law, parking, phone, policy, privacy, propaganda, sharing, sustainability, technology, transportation, zipcar
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Links for the week of May 29th, 2010
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Tagged africa, agriculture, art, bicycle, bioinformatics, biology, biotech, boulder, california, colorado, drugs, economics, economy, energy, ethanol, genetics, golden, green, humboldt, jobs, kickstarter, law, marijuana, philosophy, photos, science, southafrica, sustainability, synthetic, venter
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery
David Montgomery‘s Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations reminded me a lot of When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, except that instead of looking at how we have allocated our water resources globally, it focuses on the way humanity … Continue reading
Links for the week of April 26th, 2010
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Tagged activism, change, consumption, culture, day, design, earth, green, obesity, politics, population, social, stuff, sustainability
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Links for the week of March 19th, 2010
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Tagged advocacy, architecture, bicycle, building, cities, design, google, government, green, infrastructure, internet, lacbc, law, losangeles, maps, nyc, open, policy, politics, sustainability, technology, tools, transparency, transportation, xprize
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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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Links for the week of February 5th, 2010
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Tagged business, california, cars, china, cities, design, economics, energy, free, gender, green, law, parking, passivhaus, photos, planning, sb518, society, sustainability, transportation, vancouver, women, work
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The limits of personal action
I’ve realized recently that it is becoming difficult for us to continue marginally increasing the sustainability of our household. Pasadena has a relatively enlightened “pay as you throw” garbage collection service. You can choose one of three different sized garbage … Continue reading
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Tagged cars, cities, food, green, pasadena, personal, stuff, sustainability, transportation
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Links for the week of January 24th, 2010
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Tagged altruism, architecture, charity, cities, design, energy, green, hunger, korea, leed, nytimes, passivhaus, realestate, solar, sustainability, urban
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