Greening Monetary Policy
Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.
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Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Water Bottle Alert!
Plastic water bottles foul European waters. Why? This is a problem that can and should be fixed. Less plastic in European rivers means less plastic in the world’s oceans.
Read more...Where Are All the Bugs Going and What Can I Do About It?
Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future
Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...More on Flood Control: The Missouri River, the Levees, and the Gavins Point and Spencer Dams
The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...The New Deal, the Green New Deal, and Flood Control
Review of the Midwest flooding, history of the New Deal and flood control, and the Green New Deal and flood control.
Read more...The Problem With the ‘Warm’ in Global Warming: Most Like it Hot
“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Climate Change: Hurricanes to Deliver a Bigger Punch to Coasts
Tropical cyclone Idai may be a harbinger of further catastrophic coastal storms; climate change projections suggest the number of intense hurricanes will rise.
Read more...Five Ways to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun Too)
Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...Of Course We Can Pay for a Green New Deal, but We Can’t Escape Hard Choices
A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
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