Peak Guano
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffRecently, we've looked at the ecological future of metals, the sometimes obscured truth that all our resources are either grown or mined, the sustainability challenges of biofuels and second-generation approaches to moving from a hydrocarbon to ...
Offsets Done Right
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffI like offsets: there, I've gone and said it. Other than genetic engineering and biofuels, there may be at the moment no solution more controversial among eco-activists than offsets. That's a shame, because they make good ...
Offsets Done Right
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffI like offsets: there, I've gone and said it. Other than genetic engineering and biofuels, there may be at the moment no solution more controversial among eco-activists than offsets. That's a shame, because they make good ...
Where Are All the Clean, Green Jobs?
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffThe promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a new wave of job opportunities — productive and respectable jobs at every part of the economic spectrum, from line workers ...
A New Chance to Fix GDP
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments Offby Alan Durning Today, March 18, 2008 is the fortieth anniversary of one of Robert F. Kennedy's most famous speeches, given just months before his assassination. In it, RFK performed a rhetorical evisceration of our national economic report ...
Deutsche Post’s Packstation
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffEarlier this month, I posted a piece musing about the possibility of home delivery becoming a bigger lever for sustainable living. One of the big challenges there, of course, is that we're not always home, and ...
Green Economics and New Thinking
Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Bright Green Economy, Green News | Comments OffBy Tom Prugh A few years ago, a homeowner in Las Vegas—a place that gets maybe five inches of rainfall a year—was confronted by a water district inspector for running an illegal sprinkler in the middle of ...