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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: recycling
Where Christmas Lights Go to Be Re-Born
In Guangdong there’s a small town that specializes in recycling Christmas lights. They chip the lights into mm sized bits, and then use a modified sluicebox (a vibrating inclined water table) to separate the brass and copper from the glass, … Continue reading
From the Motor Breakers to the Sample Room
A fantastic photographic journey through the reverse supply chain from Shanghai Scrap. This is how we close the material resource loop. Today, anyway. No doubt it can be made more efficient in the future if we design for this portion … Continue reading
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Tagged china, copper, labor, material, recycling, scrap, supply chain, waste, zinc
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This is what a closed-loop economy looks like today
A great series on the recycling industry in China from the writer of Shanghai Scrap. We need to build a closed-loop material economy, and there are pieces of it around today. This is one of them. Mountains of fist-sized shards … Continue reading
Links for the week of June 17th, 2010
If you want to follow my shared links in real time instead of as a weekly digest, head over to Delicious. You can search them there easily too.
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Tagged architecture, bicycle, boulder, bush, cars, climate, clinton, colorado, design, energy, ford, gardening, government, greenhouse, jonstewart, maps, nixon, obama, oil, president, reagan, recycling, satire, sustainability, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, transportation, waste, xcel
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There’s no place like “away”
Most things we buy are trash before we even get to know them well. Paul Hawken estimates (Natural Capitalism, p. 81) that only about 1% of the mass which we mine, harvest, or otherwise extract is still playing a useful … Continue reading
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Tagged compost, green, material, personal, public, recycling, sustainability, waste
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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 Mar 19th
A New Way Forward – Grassroots banking policy? Who'd have guessed? Their plan is "Nationalize. Reorganize. Decentralize." The N-word has some bad connotations, but what they're really advocating for is an FDIC style managed bankruptcy, i.e. letting the banks fail, … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, bailout, banking, climate, economics, environment, fdic, film, finance, green, internet, junkmail, jury, law, mail, paper, phone, policy, recycling, sustainability, technology, trial, yellowpages
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Shared Links for Thu, Feb 5th, 2009
These are my links for Thu, Feb 5th, 2009 from 13:38 to 23:36 Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bill, brt, bus, children, education, efficiency, energy, environment, gates, germany, green, health, love, marriage, microsoft, philanthropy, policy, population, rail, recycling, refrigerator, schools, sustainability, teaching, ted, transit, transportation
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