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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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Links for the week of Aug 14th
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 advocacy, architecture, beach, beer, bicycle, boulder, budget, buildings, business, cai, california, cars, china, cities, colorado, crisis, culture, design, directaction, diy, dume, education, funny, gardening, girls, government, graywater, gregmortenson, infrastructure, islam, law, moral, newbelgium, pakistan, parking, pasadena, pedestrian, planning, point, policy, politics, school, sex, suburbia, sustainability, taliban, technology, traffic, transportation, urban, waste, water, women
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Does this look Freegan to you?
Why are labels so attractive? One word shortcuts for frugal thinkers. Am I a freegan? What would that mean exactly? Who curates the definitions of our cultural -isms? Reading through the Wikipedia article on Freeganism (which is as close to … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, dumpster diving, economics, food, freegan, garbage, information, landfill, material, money, personal, public, society, sustainability, trash, waste
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A Dumpster Diving Tally
We went dumpster diving by bicycle again and came home with $200 worth of Trader Joe’s fare. I’ve itemized the food we got, with actual or estimated costs below.
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Tagged agriculture, consumerism, food, freegan, public, society, sustainability, trader joe's, waste
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What are we doing?
Just pulled a week’s worth of food out of a Trader Joe’s dumpster. Eggs, blueberries, apricots, chocolate cake, frozen ribs, chicken thighs, lettuce, bagels, breads of every description. We kept a bunch of it. Sorted the fruit into compost vs. … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, food, freegan, personal, society, sustainability, waste
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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 Mar 4th
Fight against terror 'spells end of privacy' – Admiral Poindexter's Total Information Awareness is alive and well, and living in the front bedroom. Privacy is dead. Long live privacy! Transparency is our only hope. (tagged: transparency privacy surveillance police terrorism … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, cars, cities, collapse, compost, copyright, creativecommons, crisis, design, economy, green, highways, infrastructure, landfill, longnow, nytimes, obama, openaccess, police, policy, privacy, sanfrancisco, stimulus, surveillance, sustainability, technology, terrorism, transparency, transportation, waste
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