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• Sustainability 06/19/2010
  Can you solve global warming without talking about global warming? « Climate Progress tags: Sustainability We are engaged in a multi-year messaging struggle here.  The planet is going to get hotter and hotter, the weather is going to get more extreme.  One of the reasons to be clear and blunt in your messaging about this [...] […]
• Sustainability 06/01/2010
  Big Oil’s Fairy Tale « Climate Progress tags: Sustainability Coming late to the discussion, but Joe that’s a nice piece of writing. I went over to Salon just to admire it. This thread turned to BP and the plug but your piece was originally about Obama and his realpolitik. He IS a mystery though, don’t [...] […]
• Sustainability 05/29/2010
  biofuels and their tradeoffs tags: Sustainability Well biofuels, including algae: Compete with food security, energy security, and water security; a World Bank 2008 report estimates that biofuels have increased food prices by 75%; increasing AGW-related temperatures expected to decrease crop yields (recent US national assessment) and increase irrigation requ […]
• Sustainability 05/15/2010
  political future tags: policy, Sustainability, economics y’know, ALL the economists have embraced the notion of limits to growth at the limits of natural resources. I think that the only future left to us – if any future is left to us – is steady-state economics: sustainable enterprises working in stable cycles unto the nth generation [...] […]
• Policy 05/15/2010
  political future tags: policy, Sustainability, economics y’know, ALL the economists have embraced the notion of limits to growth at the limits of natural resources. I think that the only future left to us – if any future is left to us – is steady-state economics: sustainable enterprises working in stable cycles unto the nth generation [...] […]
• Economics 05/15/2010
  political future tags: policy, Sustainability, economics y’know, ALL the economists have embraced the notion of limits to growth at the limits of natural resources. I think that the only future left to us – if any future is left to us – is steady-state economics: sustainable enterprises working in stable cycles unto the nth generation [...] […]
• Economics 04/28/2010
  Bill Black: economic meltdown caused by fraud tags: economics Bill Moyers with Bill Black, bank investigator during the Savings & Loan mop-up of the eighties, and national expert on financial crime. Black says every bank we’ve investigated involved in the meltdown has revealed deliberate fraud, and we’ve only investigated six! No one’s pushing forward ca […]
• Economics 04/27/2010
  Break up the Banks tags: economics I think the undoing of Goldman will be that its execs, just like those at Morgan Stanley, or GE, or GM, have failed to understand that their own personal wealth can only last as long as the “lower classes” have at least a decent life. A chance to feed [...] […]
• Sustainability 04/23/2010
  Facebook tags: Sustainability Ross Hunter “like a syrupy muffin, connecting socially online may be like eating empty calories. The circuitry activated when you connect online is the ‘seeking’ circuitry of dopamine. Yet when we connect with people online, we don’t tend to get the calming effect of oxytocin or seratonin that happens when we bond [...] […]
• Sustainability 04/16/2010
  veggie, vegan or local? tags: Sustainability Ross Hunter try to remember we have a permeable administration, unlike the rock-hard one before. Count blessings briefly, get to work and understand that our example will permeate an administration that is willing to be influenced by groundswell. All Obama has ever asked for is for the forces in [...] […]