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A letter to John Kerry on the Keystone pipeline and civil disorder..
Archive for the ‘Energy and Environment’ Category
April 21st, 2013
April 4th, 2013
Category: Africa, Agriculture, Corruption in Washington, Energy and Environment, Food and drink, Human rights, International Affairs, Watching Conservatives
The Obama Administration announced yesterday that it wants to change US food aid rules to allow for more “local procurement” of food aid in the countries that need it. Predictably, the special interests are aghast. But the administration is right: current food aid rules are among the most egregious special interest legislation in the world [...]
March 26th, 2013
Category: Biofuels, Built Environment, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Germany, Woolgathering
An experimental apartment block in Hamburg heated by a skin of algae.
January 18th, 2013
The endless GOP hostage theatre over US budgets succeeds in one of its main purposes: to distract attention from issues that matter. Like the race against the clock to avoid complete climate breakdown. We already have the trailers. So here comes a fat Victorian-novel style doorstopper weekend post with as many nutritious links as a [...]
January 8th, 2013
Kevin Drum responds to comments: the evidence is solid, but we need more science and a real benefit-cost analysis.
January 3rd, 2013
A high-return investment in smarter people and lower crime.
November 19th, 2012
Category: Energy and Environment
Watch Dust Bowl tonight on PBS. Talk about it with your friends, too.
November 19th, 2012
Category: Energy and Environment, Taxation
Economically sensible and politically bulletproof once it passes: what’s not to like?
November 12th, 2012
Category: Energy and Environment
Now that the election is over, I will start to blog again. Sandy has focused attention on climate change mitigation efforts. Let’s not forget the politics of carbon mitigation voting. Read my co-authored 2012 paper on carbon voting, and let me know how you plan to build a carbon mitigation majority coalition. [...]