I was at The Economist’s 2009 Sustainability Summit this morning. (Thanks for having me, Economist.) It kicked off with a review of the global economic situation by Leo Abruzzese, Editorial Director for North America of the Economist Intelligence Unit. (They foresee a return to slow growth in the US sometime in the third quarter of [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 26, 2009
Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Caps: Dissecting the Rhetoric
Like many public policy debates, the one over how to best reduce carbon emissions is too complex to be properly treated in an Op-Ed article. That’s why yesterday’s piece in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, is misleading. Under Krupp’s leadership, EDF has been an amazingly effective organization. They [...]
March 24, 2009
Getting Ready for Electric Vehicles
In an effort to promote the development of a market for electric cars, the Rocky Mountain Institute is working to identify and eliminate the barriers that stand in the way. They’ve just released a “menu” (pdf) of actions that cities and other stakeholders can take to get themselves ready for a future of electric mobility. [...]
March 12, 2009
The Taxing Economics of Carbon Capture
A Bush administration decision to pull the plug on a large-scale project to assess carbon sequestration technology was justified using a mathematical error according to a report today in The New York Times. “The Energy Department made a $500 million math error a year ago when it withdrew its support from a ‘near-zero emissions’ coal [...]
