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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. 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: nyc
A Transnational School in NYC?
Chris Whittle is starting transnational school in NYC. A majority of the students will have at least one foreign born parent. All students will be taught half the time in English, and half the time in either Mandarin or Spanish. … Continue reading
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Tagged education, gray market, international, language, nyc, school, transnational
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Industrial Scale Urban Farming in NYC
TED fellow Viraj Puri talks about his Brooklyn rooftop farming startup. Gotham Greens has ~1500 square meters of hydroponic greenhouses producing herbs and salad greens in a very controlled environment… somewhere between a farm and a manufacturing facility. The system … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, food, greenhouse, hydroponics, new york, nyc, sustainability, urban
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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 Jul 30th
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Tagged airport, architecture, broadway, cellphones, cities, cycling, design, economics, energy, infrastructure, iraq, monopoly, nyc, policy, propaganda, renewable, sustainability, technology, telcos, transportation, video, war
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Shared Links for Jun 25th
The ones that got away: science through cross-disciplinary eyes – The difference between what we consider "normal", and what was once the norm can be large. In this case, our societal amnesia is revealed in historical (and pre-historical) records of … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, authority, boulder, cities, cohousing, colorado, design, efficiency, energy, fish, green, history, housing, law, nyc, passivhaus, police, privacy, school, science, scotus, security, society, solar, sustainability, transparency
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Shared Links for Jun 15th
Being “Used To” Our Lifestyle Makes Change Seem Difficult – The range of lifestyles which people have been able to become accustomed to and enjoy throughout history and spread out over the globe, is immense. Some of them are sustainable; … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, architecture, bicycle, cities, climate, design, energy, festival, film, garden, geoengineering, green, landscape, money, nyc, oregon, parks, portland, stuff, sustainability, technology, transportation
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