Tackling emissions - Nov 27
-Cornucopia of Prosperity Can Flow From Carbon Tax [Craig A. Severance] -Beyond carbon policy: A national feed-in tariff [Chris Nelder] -The economics of carbon taxes [Video presentations]read more
View ArticleWorld Energy Report 2012
Rarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world. That, however, is exactly what happened on November 12th when the prestigious Paris-based...
View ArticleSaving the things we need to keep while building the new
I think that people who want to stop environmental destruction, the closure of services and other things that are wrong in the world, are in many cases the very people who will also want to create...
View ArticleSustainable cities? - Dec 5
-Imagining Cities That Can Save The Planet: Alex Steffen Talks About Carbon Zero -Wean transport off fossil fuels, or grind to a halt -Build inter-city cooperation to stave off resource fights -...
View ArticlePaul Gilding on the Great Disruption
Paul Gilding is calling for a complete reset on the climate debate, saying we will not get a global agreement on climate change and it's a waste of time to think we ever will.read more
View ArticleThrough the Doha Gateway
Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Chairman of Qatar's Administrative Control and Transparency Authority and President of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties...
View ArticleClimate change: Confessions of a Peak Oiler
The more I studied oil depletion, the more I found myself studying climate: the two subjects are so strictly related to each other that you can't study one and ignore the other. I found that climate...
View ArticleAfter the storm, re-imagining the city
Last week I finally returned to my Brooklyn home, some 5 weeks after being displaced by Hurricane Sandy. I live a block away from the Gowanus Canal, a dedicated ‘Superfund’ site slated for clean-up...
View ArticleODAC Newsletter Dec 14
The announcement on Thursday that the government is lifting its moratorium on fracking held all the surprise of turkey on the Christmas menu. The decision, which allows the resumption of test drilling...
View ArticleClimate - Dec 19
-Leaked IPCC Draft Report: Recent Warming Is Manmade, Cloud Feedback Is Positive, Inaction Is Suicidal -What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change -Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air...
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